Chemical evolution of galaxies
Resolved and global scaling relations
Metallicities
Photometry
Morphology
Research
Chemical evolution of galaxies
Global and resolved scaling relations (i.e. SK, SFMS, MGMS)
Gas-Phase metallicities (MZR and FMR)
Photometry
Morphology
SED fitting
Part of the ALMaQUEST collaboration
Part of the JWST NIRCam GTO team (part of JADES collaboration)
Part of the MOONS collaboration
Publications
Key publications:
- The black hole mass metallicity relation and insights into galaxy quenching, Baker, William M., Maiolino, Roberto, et al., submitted to Nature Communications, 2023, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.00670.pdf
- Inside-out growth in the early universe: a core in a vigorously star-forming disc, Baker, William M., Tacchella, Sandro, et al., submitted to Nature Astronomy, 2023, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.02472.pdf
- Stellar mass, not dynamical mass nor gravitational potential, drives the mass-metallicity relationship, Baker, William M. Maiolino, Roberto, MNRAS, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad802
- The Molecular-Gas Main Sequence and Schmidt-Kennicutt relation are fundamental, the Star-Forming Main Sequence is a (useful) byproduct, Baker, William M., Maiolino, Roberto, Belfiore, Francesco, Bluck, Asa F. L., Curti, Mirko, Wylezalek, Dominika, Bertemes, Caroline, Bothwell, Matt, Lin, Lihwai, Thorp, Mallory, Pan, Hsi-An, MNRAS, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3413
- The metallicity's fundamental dependence on both local and global quantities, Baker, William M., Maiolino, Roberto, Belfiore, Francesco, Curti, Mirko, Bluck, Asa F. L., Lin, Lihwai, Ellison, Sara L., Thorp, Mallory, Pan, Hsi-An, MNRAS, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3594
- The ALMaQUEST survey IX: the nature of the resolved star forming main sequence, Baker, William M., Maiolino, Roberto, Bluck, Asa F. L., Lin, Lihwai, Ellison, Sara L., Belfiore, Francesco, Pan, Hsi-An, Thorp, Mallory, 2022, MNRAS, 510, 3622-3628, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3672
Other publications:
See further publications at https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0215-1104.
Teaching and Supervisions
Teaching:
Part II Relativity Supervisions - Michaelmas 2020 (three groups)
Part II Relativity Supervisions - Michaelmas 2021 (two groups)
Part III Formation of Structure in the Universe Supervisions - Lent 2022
Part III Formation of Structure in the Universe Supervisions - Lent 2023
