Rosalind Skelton

I am based at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), where I am head of research and a support astronomer for the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). I completed my PhD within the field of galaxy formation and evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (University of Heidelberg) in 2010 and then took up a postdoctoral research position at Yale University. Upon my return to South Africa in 2013 I held a Professional Development Programme postdoctoral fellowship at the SAAO, and then became a member of the SALT team in 2016. I have close links with the University of Cape Town, where I lecture for the National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme and supervise students at all levels. My group investigates galaxy formation processes and interactions in different environments, from the formation of low surface brightness galaxies to the most massive galaxies and large-scale structures in the universe.