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Basics

Name Jason L. Sanders
Label Associate Professor
Email jason.sanders@ucl.ac.uk
Url https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapjls
Summary I am an astrophysicist interested in the evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. For a list of publications, see research publications.

Work

Education

  • 2011 - 2014

    Oxford, UK

    DPhil
    Merton College, University of Oxford, UK
    Theoretical Astrophysics
  • 2007 - 2011

    Cambridge, UK

    MSc BA
    Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK
    Experimental & Theoretical Physics

Talks

  • Feb 2025
    The history of the Milky Way’s bar
    Kavli Galaxies Discussion Group
  • Jul 2024
    Disentangling the history of our Galaxy in the era of Gaia: How do we measure stellar ages?
    IoA50 New Frontiers of Astronomy
  • Dec 2023
    The epoch of bar formation in the Milky Way: Galactic archaeology with Mira variables
    AIP group meeting, online
  • Nov 2023
    Disentangling the history of our Galaxy in the era of Gaia
    Departmental Seminar, University of Hull
  • Oct 2023
    The epoch of bar formation in the Milky Way: Galactic archaeology with Mira variables
    Surveying the Milky Way: The Universe in Our Own Backyard, Pasadena, California
  • Oct 2023
    The epoch of bar formation in the Milky Way: Galactic archaeology with Mira variables
    VVV-X workshop, Vatican Observatory
  • Sep 2023
    Stellar populations of the inner Galaxy: structure, kinematics, age and chemistry
    Revealed by Gaia, Cambridge
  • Jul 2023
    The epoch of bar formation in the Milky Way
    Galactic Bars, Granada
  • Mar 2023
    Disentangling the history of our Galaxy in the era of Gaia
    Departmental Seminar, Queen Mary's University London, UK
  • Feb 2023
    The structure of the bar of the Milky Way from near infra-red observations and stellar kinematics
    Mapping the Milky Way Lorentz Center workshop, University of Leiden
  • Sep 2022
    The epoch of bar formation
    Puzzles of the Galactic Centre workshop, Heidelberg
  • Oct 2021
    Evidence for sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia supernovae from the last major merger
    HRMOS science workshop, online
  • Sep 2021
    Our place in the Universe: using billion+ stellar datasets to reveal the formation of the Milky Way
    Royal Society Meeting of Minds, London
  • Jul 2020
    How fast is the Milky Way bar rotating?
    Galaxies Coffee discussion session, MPIA, Heidelberg
  • Feb 2020
    Uncovering the history of the Milky Way with Gaia
    Royal Society Specialist Discussion, UK
  • Oct 2019
    Our Multi-Dimensional Time-evolving Galaxy
    Departmental Seminar, University of Durham, UK
  • Jul 2019
    Our Multi-Dimensional Time-evolving Galaxy
    Departmental Seminar, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK
  • Jul 2019
    Transverse Bar/Bulge Kinematics with Gaia and VVV
    International Astronomical Symposium 353, Shanghai, China
  • May 2019
    Our Multi-Dimensional Time-evolving Galaxy
    Departmental Seminar, University of Central Lancashire, UK
  • Nov 2018
    Kinematics of the Galactic bulge with VVV and Gaia DR2
    The life and times of the Milky Way, Shanghai, China
  • Nov 2018
    Halo discussion (invited)
    The life and times of the Milky Way, Shanghai, China
  • Jul 2018
    Tidal disruption of dwarf galaxies
    Stellar Haloes across the Cosmos, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Dec 2017
    Chronologically dissecting the Galaxy
    Week of WEAVE, Barcelona, Spain
  • Nov 2017
    Dark-matter haloes of the Local Group
    Departmental Seminar, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
  • Aug 2017
    Heating history of the solar neighbourhood with Gaia DR1
    The science of Gaia and future challenges, Lund University, Sweden
  • Jul 2017
    Chemo-dynamical Milky Way models in the era of Gaia
    National Astronomy Meeting, Hull, UK
  • Jul 2017
    Dynamical modelling of globular clusters and tidal streams
    Departmental Seminar, University of Leicester, UK
  • May 2017
    The dark-matter halo mass spectrum of the Milky Way
    Departmental Seminar, University of Cardiff, UK
  • May 2017
    The dark-matter halo mass spectrum of the Milky Way
    Departmental Seminar, University of Nottingham, UK
  • Apr 2017
    Dwarf spheroidal scatter
    Coffee talk, University of Edinburgh
  • Nov 2016
    Revealing the dark-matter halo mass spectrum of the Milky Way
    Departmental seminar, University of Bristol, UK
  • Oct 2016
    Revealing the dark-matter halo mass spectrum of the Milky Way
    Departmental seminar, Lund University, Sweden
  • Jun 2016
    Extended DFs for the Galactic Disc(s)
    Oxford mini-symposium, University of Oxford, UK
  • Mar 2016
    Dark matter annihilation in Milky Way dwarf spheroidals
    Wednesday lunchtime talks, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Dec 2015
    Chemo-dynamical modelling of large spectroscopic surveys (APOGEE & Gaia-ESO)
    Gaia-ESO Third Science, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Jul 2015
    Stream modelling
    Streams workshop, Ringberg, Germany
  • Nov 2014
    Extended distribution functions for the Galactic disc
    Gaia-ESO Second Science, Porto, Portugal
  • Nov 2014
    Dynamics of the Milky Way
    Lunchtime Newcomer talks, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Apr 2014
    Extended Distribution Functions and Tidal Streams
    2nd Oxford-Heidelberg meeting, University of Oxford, UK
  • Feb 2014
    Dynamics of the Milky Way: Tidal streams
    Galaxy Evolution meeting, University of Oxford, UK
  • Aug 2013
    Streams in angle-action space
    Gaia Challenge meeting, University of Surrey, UK
  • Aug 2013
    Tidal streams and the Galactic potential
    Milky Way Workshop, MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Jul 2013
    Modelling RAVE with Extended Distribution Functions
    RAVE meeting 2013, Oxford, UK
  • May 2013
    Stream-orbit misalignment
    International Astronomical Union Symposium 298, Lijiang, China
  • Apr 2013
    Chemodynamical distribution functions
    Gaia-ESO First Science, Nice, France

Teaching

  • 2023-PRESENT

    London, UK

    PHAS0037 co-lecturer
    UCL
    Third-year undergraduate Physical Cosmology co-lecturer
  • 2021-2022

    London, UK

    Teaching assistant for PHAS0007
    Practical Physics & Computing 1
  • 2020-2023
    PhD training course organiser and lecturer
    UCL
  • 2020-2021
    Teaching assistant for PHAS0029 Practical Physics & Computing 2
    UCL
  • 2019
    Lecturer for 49th Saas Fee school on The Milky Way in the Gaia era
    Saas Fee Switzerland
  • 2017-2019
    3rd year Undergraduate Stellar Dynamics and Structure of Galaxies supervisions
    University of Cambridge
  • 2015-2020
    Part III Masters Project supervisor
    University of Cambridge (four students)
  • 2014-2020
    1st year Undergraduate Physics supervisions
    University of Cambridge
  • 2013-2014
    3rd year Undergraduate General Relativity Tutorials
    University of Oxford
  • 2012-2013
    3rd year Undergraduate Special Relativity Tutorials
    University of Oxford
  • 2012
    2nd year Quantum Mechanics marking
    University of Oxford
  • 2012
    3rd year Undergraduate Astrophysics Labs
    University of Oxford