Ricardo Demarco is interested in understanding how the galaxies and
clusters of galaxies that we observe in the local universe came to
being, as well as their physical properties at different redshifts. He
focusses on the analysis and interpretation of imaging and
spectroscopic data sets from ground and space based observatories to
study structure formation and evolution. Spectroscopic data allow him
to map out large-scale structures, study galaxy cluster dynamics and
characterize the stellar content of galaxies out to z>1. He is
involved in the study of galaxy clusters at z>1, and the search for
clusters at z>1.5 to investigate the transition from protoclusters at
z>2 to massive clusters at z<1.
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