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"My thesis is about the peculiarities of star formation. I tried to find out how these processes are influenced by the environment," says Marius.

 

He adds that delving deeper into this topic is crucial to understanding how the Milky Way galaxy and our Sun formed, and perhaps how and why life emerged in the Universe.

 

"One of the results is that we have been able to confirm that in dwarf galaxies, stars form episodically, while in large galaxies like ours, star formation is more dependent on gravitational interactions with the environment and is more chaotic," says the new PhD.

 

Other achievements during his thesis include the development of a new method for reconstructing the stellar history of dwarf galaxies in 1D and 2D from stellar photometric (light intensity) measurements.

 

The star formation history of the dwarf galaxy Leo A has also been established, with most stars forming over the last 6 billion years, in very intense bursts.