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Monica Valluri

Assistant Research Scientist

email Monica Valluri

909 Dennison
500 Church St.
Ann Arbor, Mi 48109

Phone: (734) 764-3430
Department Phone: (734) 764-3440
Fax: (734) 763-6317

I am a Scientist at the Department of Astronomy at the University of Michigan. My research covers a variety of areas in Astronomy and is based on the common theoretical framework of Galactic Dynamics. Some of the topics I have worked on address issues relating to supermassive black holes in galaxies and their role in the evolution of galaxies; the properties of the mysterious "Dark Matter" that constitutes most of the mass in the Universe and how we might be able to understand the properties of this matter using computer experiments; and how dynamical processes affect the evolution of galaxies in clusters.

Research Interests

Dynamics of Galactic Nuclei with Supermassive Blackholes
Non-linear dyamics and Mixing in Collisionless Systems
Dynamical properties of Dark Matter
Dynamical Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters

Education

B.Sc./M.Sc. Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Publications

All my publications are available from NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).