Balu Sreedhar

I work mostly on galaxy formation and evolution, with a particular focus on Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). For this I make use of large-scale semi-analytical models as well as darkmatter-only N-body and hydrodynamical simulations. For more information, see my publications page.

I am currenlty a postdoctoral researcher in the galaxy evolution group of Prof. Jose Oñorbe at the University of Seville, Spain. I earned my PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Melbourne under Prof. Stuart Wyithe and Dr. Bradley Greig. A copy of my thesis is available here.

I am from a small town in the south Indian state of Kerala (where we speak Malayalam). I completed my degree in Physics at the Pondicherry University in the union territory of Puducherry (where Tamil is the main language).

Note about my name:
TLDR: Mr Sreedhar is my father and I am Mr Balu! My published works are listed under Sreedhar Balu.

We employ a patronymic naming system where I am from which means that Sreedhar is my father’s given name and not my family name.