Izzy Garland


Izzy Garland

Izzy is a postdoctoral researcher, studying the bar-driven fuelling of active galactic nuclei. During their PhD, they showed to an unprecedented level of significance that strongly barred galaxies have a higher fraction of AGN than weakly barred, which in turn have a higher fraction of AGN than unbarred galaxies.

They are now focussing on understanding this correlation in greater detail, using new surveys such as Euclid.

Izzy is part of the Galaxy Zoo collaboration, which asks volunteer citizen scientists to classify galaxy morphology and trains machine learning programs to do this on a colossal scale. They make use of these results to investigate AGN fuelling.

Alongside astrophysics, Izzy has a keen interest in the wider applications of citizen science to disaster relief, and works with the planetary response network to aid relief efforts in natural disasters.

EDUCATION:
 
 
2019-2024 PhD in Physics: "Bar-driven Fuelling of AGN” at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; Advisor: Dr. Brooke D. Simmons
 
2015-2019 MSc in Physics: “Co-evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies” at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; Advisor: Dr. Brooke D. Simmons
 
 

POSITIONS:
 
 
since 4/2024  Postdoctoral researcher at Masaryk University.
 
2024  Data Analyst with Planetary Response Network
 
2019-2023  Post-Graduate Teaching Assistant at Lancaster University, modules including: Practical Laboratory, Astrophysics, Statistical Physics and supervision of Master’s students
 
2019-2024  Planetarium Demonstrator with LUniverse

Selected Publications

The effects of bar strength and kinematics on galaxy evolution: slow strong bars affect their hosts the most (arXiv).
T. Géron, R. J. Smethurst, C. Lintott, K. L. Masters, I. L. Garland, 2024, accepted to ApJ.

Galaxy Zoo DESI: large-scale bars as a secular mechanism for triggering AGN (arXiv).
I. L. Garland, M. Walmsley, M.S. Silcock, L.M. Potts, J. Smith, B.D. Simmons, C.J. Lintott, R.J. Smethurst, J.M. Dawson, W.C. Keel, S. Kruk, K.B. Mantha, K.L. Masters, D. O'Ryan, J.J. Popp, M.R. Thorne, 2024, MNRAS.

The most luminous, merger-free AGNs show only marginal correlation with bar presence (arXiv).
I.L. Garland, M.J. Fahey, B.D. Simmons, R.J. Smethurst, C.J. Lintott, J. Shanahan, M.S. Silcock, J. Smith, W.C. Keel, A. Coil, T. Géron, S. Kruk, K.L. Masters, D. O'Ryan, M.R. Thorne, K. Wiersema, S. W. Allen, 2023, MNRAS.


For a complete list of publications see here.