The standard model of cosmology has been quite successful accounting for a broad range of data - at least until the past few years. But as the quality of...

In this seminar, I will present my latest work on interactions and stellar bars. For several decades it has been known that stellar bars in disc galaxies can be...

It has been recently shown that the chemical composition of the Sun is anomalous when compared to most nearby stars of very similar fundamental parameters, so...

The detection and number estimates of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) provide important constraints on the hierarchical models for galaxy formation and...

We are currently conducting a survey of 25 Galactic globular clusters with MUSE, the panoramic integral-field spectrograph at the ESO VLT. Although the...

According to standard evolutionary theory, cataclysmic variables (CV) evolve from longer to shorter orbital periods until a minimum period P_min is reached. The...

Galaxy clusters are the perfect places to study both the always controversial nature vs nurture problem and the still not well understood evolution that...

I will talk about our current understanding of globular cluster (GC) formation and what we have yet to learn about them. I will particularly focus on the...

I will present a story of how a chance observing run kicked off more than a decade of exploration of the dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds, leading to the...