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Dr Paul McMillan

Lecturer in Astrophysics

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School/Department: Physics and Astronomy, School of

Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 3505

Email: paul.mcmillan@leicester.ac.uk

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I am an astrophysicist who studies the dynamics of galaxies, particularly our own Milky Way. I have worked on building theoretical, but observationally motivated, models of the Milky Way and the orbits of its stars. I have also worked in data processing for the Gaia mission and the RAVE spectroscopic survey. I am working to understand what Gaia and other surveys are telling us about the Milky Way, and to produce the science case for a future GaiaNIR astrometric mission.

I am a lecturer at the University of Leicester. Until summer 2023 I was an associate professor and lecturer at Lund Observatory, where I was part of the Gaia group. Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford working with James Binney in the Galactic Dynamics group. I did my PhD in the Theoretical Astrophysics group here at the University of Leicester supervised by Walter Dehnen. This included a Marie Curie student fellowship in Marseille with Lia Athanassoula.

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