Dr Andreea Font

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Sante A, Kawata D, Font AS, Grand RJJ. 2025. GalactiKit: reconstructing mergers from $z=0$ debris using simulation-based inference in Auriga DOI Author Url

Robertson B, Bullock JS, Font AS, Johnston KV, Hernquist L. 2005. Lambda-Cold Dark Matter, Stellar Feedback, and the Galactic Halo Abundance Pattern arXiv DOI

Journal article

Sante A, Font AS, Ortega-Martorell S, Olier I, McCarthy IG. 2024. Applying machine learning to Galactic Archaeology: how well can we recover the origin of stars in Milky Way-like galaxies? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531 :4363-4382 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Brown ST, Fattahi A, McCarthy IG, Font AS, Oman KA, Riley AH. 2024. ARTEMIS emulator: exploring the effect of cosmology and galaxy formation physics on Milky Way-mass haloes and their satellites Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532 :1223-1240 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Grimozzi SE, Font AS, De Rossi ME. 2024. Differences in the properties of disrupted and surviving satellites of Milky-Way-mass galaxies in relation to their host accretion histories Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530 :95-116 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dillamore AM, Belokurov V, Kravtsov A, Font AS. 2023. Taking the Milky Way for a spin: disc formation in the ARTEMIS simulations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 :7070-7078 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

McCarthy IG, Salcido J, Schaye J, Kwan J, Elbers W, Kugel R, Schaller M, Helly JC, Braspenning J, Frenk CS, Daalen MPV, Vandenbroucke B, Conley JT, Font AS, Upadhye AR. 2023. The FLAMINGO project: revisiting the S8 tension and the role of baryonic physics Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526 :5494-5519 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Salcido J, McCarthy IG, Kwan J, Upadhye A, Font AS. 2023. SP(k) - A hydrodynamical simulation-based model for the impact of baryon physics on the non-linear matter power spectrum Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523 :2247-22262 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dillamore AM, Belokurov V, Evans NW, Font AS. 2022. A correlation between accreted stellar kinematics and dark matter halo spin in the ARTEMIS simulations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 519 :L87-L91 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Kukstas E, Balogh ML, McCarthy IG, Bahe YM, Lucia GD, Jablonka P, Vulcani B, Baxter DC, Biviano A, Cerulo P, Chan JC, Cooper MC, Demarco R, Finoguenov A, Font AS, Lidman C, Marchioni J, McGee S, Muzzin A, Nantais J, Old L, Pintos-Castro I, Poggianti B, Reeves AMM, Rudnick G, Sarron F, Burg RVD, Webb K, Wilson G, Yee HKC, Zaritsky D. 2022. GOGREEN: a critical assessment of environmental trends in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations at z ~ 1 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518 :4782-4800 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dillamore AM, Belokurov V, Font AS, McCarthy IG. 2022. Merger-induced galaxy transformations in the ARTEMIS simulations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513 :1867-1886 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, McCarthy IG, Belokurov V, Brown ST, Stafford SG. 2022. Quenching of satellite galaxies of Milky Way analogues: reconciling theory and observations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511 :1544-1556 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Brown ST, McCarthy IG, Stafford SG, Font AS. 2021. Towards a universal model for the density profiles of dark matter haloes Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509 :5685-5701 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Acuto A, McCarthy IG, Kwan J, Salcido J, Stafford SG, Font AS. 2021. The BAHAMAS project: Evaluating the accuracy of the halo model in predicting the non-linear matter power spectrum Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508 :3519-3534 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Stafford SG, McCarthy IG, Kwan J, Brown ST, Font AS, Robertson A. 2021. Testing extensions to LCDM on small scales with forthcoming cosmic shear surveys Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508 :2537-2555 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, McCarthy IG, Belokurov V. 2021. Can cosmological simulations capture the diverse satellite populations of observed Milky Way analogues? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505 :783-801 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Poole-McKenzie R, Font AS, Boxer B, McCarthy IG, Burdin S, Stafford SG, Brown ST. 2020. Informing dark matter direct detection limits with the ARTEMIS simulations Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

McCarthy IG, Font AS. 2020. The imprint of dark subhaloes on the circumgalactic medium Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499 :3255-3266 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, McCarthy IG, Poole-Mckenzie R, Stafford SG, Brown ST, Schaye J, Crain RA, Theuns T, Schaller M. 2020. The ARTEMIS simulations: stellar haloes of Milky Way-mass galaxies Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498 :1765-1785 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Pfeifer S, McCarthy IG, Stafford SG, Brown ST, Font AS, Kwan J, Salcido J, Schaye J. 2020. The BAHAMAS project: Effects of dynamical dark energy on large-scale structure Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498 :1576-1592 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Stafford SG, Brown ST, McCarthy IG, Font AS, Robertson A, Poole-Mckenzie R. 2020. Exploring extensions to the standard cosmological model and the impact of baryons on small scales Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497 :3809-3829 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Kukstas E, McCarthy I, Baldry I, Font A. 2020. Environment from cross-correlations: connecting hot gas and the quenching of galaxies Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496 :2241-2261 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Brown ST, McCarthy IG, Diemer B, Font AS, Stafford SG, Pfiefer S. 2020. Connecting the structure of dark matter haloes to the primordial power spectrum Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495 :4994-5013 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Stafford SG, McCarthy IG, Crain RA, Salcido J, Schaye J, Font AS, Kwan J, Pfeifer S. 2020. The BAHAMAS project: Effects of a running scalar spectral index on large-scale structure Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493 :676-697 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Hampton CV, Lugaro M, Papakonstantinou P, Isar PG, Nordström B, Özkan N, Aliotta M, Ćiprijanović A, Curtis S, Criscienzo MD, Hartogh JD, Font AS, Kankainen A, Kobayashi C, Lederer-Woods C, Niemczura E, Rauscher T, Spyrou A, Eck SV, Yavahchova M, Chantereau W, Mink SED, Kaiser E, Thielemann F-K, Travaglio C, Venkatesan A, Collet R. 2019. Women Scientists Who Made Nuclear Astrophysics Springer Proceedings in Physics, 2019 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Knebe A, Pearce FR, Gonzalez-Perez V, Thomas PA, Benson A, Asquith R, Blaizot J, Bower R, Carretero J, Castander FJ, Cattaneo A, Cora SA, Croton DJ, Cui W, Cunnama D, Devriendt JE, Elahi PJ, Font A, Fontanot F, Gargiulo ID, Helly J, Henriques B, Lee J, Mamon GA, Onions J, Padilla ND, Power C, Pujol A, Ruiz AN, Srisawat C, Stevens ARH, Tollet E, Vega-Martinez CA, Yi SK. 2018. Cosmic CARNage I: on the calibration of galaxy formation models MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 475 :2936-2954 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

McCarthy IG, Bird S, Schaye J, Harnois-Deraps J, Font AS, van Waerbeke L. 2018. The BAHAMAS project: the CMB-large-scale structure tension and the roles of massive neutrinos and galaxy formation MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 476 :2999-3030 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, McCarthy IG, Brun AMCL, Crain RA, Kelvin LS. 2017. The diversity of assembly histories leading to disc galaxy formation in a LambdaCDM model DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

De Rossi ME, Bower RG, Font AS, Schaye J, Theuns T. 2017. Galaxy metallicity scaling relations in the EAGLE simulations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472 :3345-3377 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Pujol A, Skibba RA, Gaztanaga E, Benson A, Blaizot J, Bower R, Carretero J, Castander FJ, Cattaneo A, Cora SA, Croton DJ, Cui W, Cunnama D, De Lucia G, Devriendt JE, Elahi PJ, Font AS, Fontanot F, Garcia-Bellido J, Gargiulo ID, Gonzalez-Perez V, Helly J, Henriques BMB, Hirschmann M, Knebe A, Lee J, Mamon GA, Monaco P, Onions J, Padilla ND, Pearce FR, Power C, Somerville RS, Srisawat C, Thomas PA, Tollet E, Vega-Martinez CA, Yi SK. 2017. nIFTy cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469 :749-762 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Mateu C, Cooper AP, Font AS, Aguilar L, Frenk C, Cole S, Wang W, McCarthy IG. 2017. Predictions for the detection of tidal streams with Gaia using great-circle methods Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469 :721-743 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Rossi MED, Theuns T, Font AS, McCarthy IG. 2015. The evolution of galaxy metallicity scaling relations in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452 :486-501 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Knebe A, Pearce FR, Thomas PA, Benson A, Blaizot J, Bower RG, Carretero J, Castander FJ, Cattaneo A, Cora SA, Croton DJ, Cui W, Cunnama D, De Lucia G, Devriendt J, Elahi PJ, Font AS, Fontanot F, Garcia-Bellido J, Gargiulo ID, Gonzalez-Perez V, Helly J, Henriques B, Hirschmann M, Lee J, Mamon GA, Monaco P, Onions J, Padilla ND, Power C, Pujol A, Skibba RA, Somerville RS, Srisawat C, Vega-Martinez CA, Yi SK. 2015. nIFTy Cosmology: Comparison of Galaxy Formation Models Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451 :4029-4059 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Bahé YM, McCarthy IG, Balogh ML, Font AS. 2013. Why does the environmental influence on group and cluster galaxies extend beyond the virial radius? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430 :3017-3031 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Starkenburg E, Helmi A, De Lucia G, Li YS, Navarro JF, Font AS, Frenk CS, Springel V, Vera-Ciro CA, White SDM. 2013. The satellites of the milky way-insights from semi-analytic modelling in a λCDM cosmology Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429 :725-743 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

McCarthy IG, Schaye J, Font AS, Theuns T, Frenk CS, Crain RA, Vecchia CD. 2012. Rotation rates, sizes, and star formation efficiencies of a representative population of simulated disc galaxies Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc., 427 :379-392 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

McCarthy IG, Font AS, Crain RA, Deason AJ, Schaye J, Theuns T. 2012. Global structure and kinematics of stellar haloes in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 420 :2245-2262 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS. 2012. Formation of Milky Way-type stellar haloes in a Lambda-CDM cosmology Reyle C, Robin A, Schultheis M. ASSEMBLING THE PUZZLE OF THE MILKY WAY, 19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Font AS, Benson AJ, Bower RG, Frenk CS, Cooper A, Delucia G, Helly JC, Helmi A, Li YS, McCarthy IG, Navarro JF, Springel V, Starkenburg E, Wang J, White SDM. 2011. The population of Milky Way satellites in the Λ cold dark matter cosmology Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 417 :1260-1279 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, Mccarthy IG, Crain RA, Theuns T, Schaye J, Wiersma RPC, Vecchia CD. 2011. Cosmological simulations of the formation of the stellar haloes around disc galaxies Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416 :2802-2820 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Deason AJ, Mccarthy IG, Font AS, Evans NW, Frenk CS, Belokurov V, Libeskind NI, Crain RA, Theuns T. 2011. Mismatch and misalignment: Dark haloes and satellites of disc galaxies Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 415 :2607-2625 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

McGee SL, Balogh ML, Bower RG, Font AS, McCarthy IG. 2009. The accretion of galaxies into groups and clusters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 400 :937-950 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Gilbert KM, Font AS, Johnston KV, Guhathakurta P. 2009. The dominance of metal-rich streams in stellar halos: A comparison between substructure in m31 and λcdm models Astrophysical Journal, 701 :776-786 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Johnston KV, Bullock JS, Sharma S, Font A, Robertson BE, Leitner SN. 2008. TRACING GALAXY FORMATION WITH STELLAR HALOS. II. RELATING SUBSTRUCTURE IN PHASE AND ABUNDANCE SPACE TO ACCRETION HISTORIES ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 689 :936-957 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, Johnston KV, Ferguson AMN, Bullock JS, Robertson BE, Tumlinson J, Guhathakurta P. 2008. The stellar content of galaxy halos: A comparison between ACDM models and observations of M31 The Astrophysical Journal, 673 :215-225 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

McCarthy IG, Frenk CS, Font AS, Lacey CG, Bower RG, Mitchell NL, Balogh ML, Theuns T. 2008. Ram pressure stripping the hot gaseous haloes of galaxies in groups and clusters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 383 :593-605 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Font AS, Bower RG, McCarthy IG, Benson AJ, Frenk CS, Helly JC, Lacey CG, Baugh CM, Cole S. 2008. The colours of satellite galaxies in groups and clusters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 389 :1619-1629 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Font AS. 2007. The most metal-poor stars in the galaxy Emsellem E, Wozniak H, Massacrier G, Gonzalez JF, Devriendt J, Champavert N. CRAL-2006 CHEMODYNAMICS: FROM FIRST STARS TO LOCAL GALAXIES, 24 :209-214 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Font AS, Johnston KV, Bullock JS, Robertson BE. 2006. Phase-space distributions of chemical abundances in Milky Way-type Galaxy halos The Astrophysical Journal, 646 :886-898 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, Johnston KV, Guhathakurta P, Majewski SR, Rich RM. 2006. Dynamics and stellar content of the giant southern stream in M31. II. Interpretation The Astronomical Journal, 131 :1436-1444 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, Johnston KV, Bullock JS, Robertson BE. 2006. Chemical abundance distributions of galactic halos and their satellite systems in a ACDM universe Astrophysical Journal, 638 :585-595 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Robertson B, Bullock JS, Font AS, Johnston KV, Hernquist L. 2005. A cold dark matter, stellar feedback, and the galactic halo abundance pattern ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 632 :872-881 DOI Author Url

Robertson B, Bullock JS, Font AS, Johnston KV, Hernquist L. 2005. A cold dark matter, stellar feedback, and the galactic halo abundance pattern Astrophysical Journal, 632 :872-881 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, Johnston KV, Bullock JS, Robertson B. 2005. Galactic chemical abundance distributions in a ACDM universe Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 1 :126-129 DOI Publisher Url

Johnstone D, Matsuyama I, McCarthy IG, Font AS. 2004. Destruction of stellar disks by photoevaporation GarciaSegura G, TenorioTagle G, Yorke JFH. Gravitational Collapse: From Massive Stars To Planet, 22 :38-41 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, Mccarthy IG, Johnstone D, Ballantyne DR. 2004. Photoevaporation of circumstellar disks around young stars Astrophysical Journal, 607 :890-903 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Stoica C, Font A. 2003. Global dynamics in the singular logarithmic potential Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 36 :7693-7714 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, Navarro JF, Stadel J, Quinn T. 2001. Halo substructure and disk heating in a Λ cold dark matter universe The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 563 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Font AS, Mitchell GF, Sandell G. 2001. A submillimeter study of the star-forming region NGC 7129 Astrophysical Journal, 555 :950-960 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Blumenhagen R, Font A, Kumar A, Lust D. 2000. Aspects of type 0 string theory CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, 17 :989-996 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Gilbert KM, Tollerud EJ, Anderson J, Beaton RL, Bell EF, Brooks A, Brown TM, Bullock J, Carlin JL, Collins M, Cooper A, Crnojevic D, Dalcanton J, Pino AD, D'Souza R, Escala I, Fardal M, Font A, Geha M, Guhathakurta P, Kirby E, Lewis GF, Marshall JL, Martin NF, McQuinn K, Monachesi A, Patel E, Peeples MS, Pillepich A, Quirk ACN, Rich RM, Sohn ST, Ting Y-S, Marel RPVD, Wetzel A, Williams BF, Wojno J. Astro2020 Science White Paper: Construction of an L* Galaxy: the Transformative Power of Wide Fields for Revealing the Past, Present and Future of the Great Andromeda System Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Rossi MED, Bower RG, Font AS, Schaye J, Theuns T. Evolution of the stellar metallicities of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations DOI Author Url Public Url

Camps P, Kapoor AU, Trčka A, Font AS, McCarthy IG, Trayford J, Baes M. High-resolution synthetic UV-submm images for Milky Way-mass simulated galaxies from the ARTEMIS project Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Other

Brown ST, McCarthy IG, Diemer B, Font AS, Stafford SG, Pfeifer S. 2020. Connecting the structure of dark matter haloes to the primordial power spectrum (vol 495, pg 4994, 2020) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496 :4700-4700 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Conference publication

Mateu C, Cooper AP, Font AS, Aguilar L, Frenk C, Cole S, Wang W, McCarthy IG. 2017. THE SEARCH FOR GHOSTS OF MERGERS PAST WITH GAIA Garzon MAH, Dominguez SV. XV LATIN AMERICAN REGIONAL IAU MEETING, 2016, 15th Latin American Regional IAU Meeting 49 :45-46 Author Url

Font AS, Navarro JF, Stadel J, Quinn TR. 2003. Cold dark matter substructure and the dynamical evolution of galaxy disks Boily CM, Patsis P, Zwart SP, Spurzem R, Theis C. GALACTIC & STELLAR DYNAMICS, Workshop on Galactic Dynamics 10 :89-94 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Font AS, Navarro JF. 2003. Cold dark matter substructure and the heating of galactic disks Makino J, Hut P. ASTROPHYSICAL SUPERCOMPUTING USING PARTICLE SIMULATIONS, 208th Symposium of the International-Astronomical-Union :391-392 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Chapters

Font AS, Bullock JS, Johnston KV. 2006. Should chemical abundance distributions of satellites look like their stellar halos? Randich S, Pasquini L. :264-+ SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Research Grants Awarded:

STFC Wonder Match NCCPE, Reaching for the stars, Emma Latham (Sefton CVS), Grant value (£): 600, Duration of research project: 1 year. 2020

UKRI, Self-consistent annihilation simulations of dark matter, Grant value (£): PhD studentship, Duration of research project: 4 years. 2017

STFC, Chemical Evolution of Galaxies in a LambdaCDM Universe, Grant value (£): 202,739, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2006

Fellowships:

ICRAR Visiting Fellowship for Senior Women in Astronomy, ICRAR, University of Western Australia, https://www.icrar.org/dr-andreea-font-awarded-2014-icrar-visiting-fellowship-senior-women-astronomy/. 2014

Royal Society "Dorothy Hodgkin" Fellowship, University of Cambridge -> Liverpool John Moores University, https://royalsociety.org/news/2009/dorothy-hodgkin-2009/. 2009