The Origin of the Galaxy and Local Group

Joss Bland-Hawthorn holds the Federation Fellow Professorship at the Institute of Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney. He is doing research on near-field and far-field cosmology and is also working in instrument science. Kenneth Charles Freeman is Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra. His research interests are in the formation and dynamics of galaxies and globular clusters. He received several international awards. Francesca Matteucci is associate professor at the University of Trieste, Italy, where she teaches Stellar Physics. Her field of research is the chemical evolution of galaxies of different morphological type, supernova rates and supernova progenitors.