BENITEZ LLAMBAY ALEJANDRO
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Biography
Dr Benitez-Llambay is an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan, Italy. His research intersects numerical cosmology, galaxy formation at the smallest scales, and 21 cm radio observations. Before arriving in Milan, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba, Argentina, and conducted research at the University of Victoria, Canada, and the Institute for Computational Cosmology in Durham, UK.
He tackles research challenges using advanced computational methods and large-scale cosmological simulations. He also develops high-performance software for creating and analyzing these datasets. Some of these tools are publicly available, including Py-SPHViewer, a high-performance code widely used to visualize complex simulations using clustering techniques (see Py-SPHViewer on GitHub).
Additionally, Dr Benitez-Llambay is involved in major international collaborations focused on producing advanced hydrodynamical numerical models of galaxy formation within a cosmological context and exploring cosmological probes at the smallest scales using cutting-edge ground and space-based facilities.
Publications
Benitez-Llambay, A., Dutta, R., Fumagalli, M., Navarro, J. (2024). Examining the Nature of the Starless Dark Matter Halo Candidate Cloud-9 with Very Large Array Observations. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 973(1) [10.3847/1538-4357/ad65d9]. Detail
Chan, T., Benítez-Llambay, A., Theuns, T., Frenk, C., Bower, R. (2024). The impact and response of mini-haloes and the interhalo medium on cosmic reionization. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 528(2), 1296-1326 [10.1093/mnras/stae114]. Detail
Finn, A., Kyle, A., Carlos, S., Benitez-Llambay, A., Julio, F., Isabel M, E. (2023). The diversity of rotation curves of simulated galaxies with cusps and cores. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 521(1), 1316-1336 [10.1093/mnras/stad549]. Detail
Chaikin, E., Schaye, J., Schaller, M., Benitez-Llambay, A., Folkert S, J., Ploeckinger, S. (2023). A thermal-kinetic subgrid model for supernova feedback in simulations of galaxy formation. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 523(3), 3709-3731 [10.1093/mnras/stad1626]. Detail
Keung Chan, T., Benitez Llambay, A., Theuns, T., Frenk, C. (2023). Simulations of the reionization of the clumpy intergalactic medium with a novel particle-based two-moment radiative transfer scheme. In Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (pp.15-20) [10.1017/S1743921322001235]. Detail
Research projects
Awards
Research and teaching assignments
- Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2024 - 2027