Dr. Andreas Koch	Research Interests Chemical evolution of dwarf spheroidals Spatial distribution of satellite galaxies Tidal disruption of globular clusters	University of California at Los Angeles Department of Physics and Astronomy 430 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 USA Phone: +1 310 825 0344 Fax    : +1 310 206 2096 email: akoch AT astro DOT ucla DOT edu
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Research in general

As a postdoc at UCLA I am working with Dr. R. Michael Rich on stellar abundances, stellar populations and thence galactic evolution. We aim at accomplishing this, e.g., via spectroscopy in the Andromeda galaxy, M31. Metallicity and chemical abundance studies will help us in elucidating this galaxy's evolutionary history. Further projects comprise high-resolution chemical abundance studies in Galactic dwarf spheroidals and the Galactic bulge as well as investigating their stellar kinematics.
In 2006 I obtained my Ph.D. from the Astronomical Institute in Basel (Switzerland), where I studied the chemical and kinematical properties of nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies together with Eva Grebel.