Kuldeep Sharma, PhD student from Carnegie Mellon (where the PI was before moving to UNC) defended his PhD “From Dwarf Galaxy Halos to Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: Exploring Star Cluster Evolution and Constraining the LMC Mass” earlier this month! He’s the first PhD student graduated from our group, and his work on collisional runaway mergers in dense star clusters (like the merger tree shown below, where stars can merge repeatedly before collapsing to form a large black hole) has provided us key insights into the formation of intermediate mass black holes in young proto-globular clusters. Congratulations Kuldeep!!!
