Dr. Davor Krajnović

Welcome to my web pages!

My current research topics of interest are related to galaxy formation and evolution. Things that interest me are supermassive black holes, motions and orbits of stars in galaxies, dynamics of galaxies, their shapes and sub-components, stellar populations and similar. I am a co-PI of a small, but cool, survey of most massive galaxies called M3G, using MUSE, the amazing integral-field spectrograph for the VLT. I was a co-PI of the ATLAS3D Project. Check out the web page for the data and the paper products of the survey. Of interest might also be a popular article published in Physics World about the first results of the project. I am also a member of the consortium which built MUSE, and I am involved in MOSAIC, an instrument for the E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope).

Here you can find my other web page (not necessarily more up-to-date). That site also contains a dedicated page for (old) kinemetry, the software for analysis of kinematics (velocity, velocity dispersion...) of galaxies obtained with integral-field spectrographs. There are both IDL (available from (old) kinemetry pages) and python versions (available via the kinemetry Navigation link on the right).