Title: Stellar haloes of Milky Way mass-size galaxies 

Abstract:
The current cosmological paradigm postulates that galaxies assembled hierarchically by the 
aggregation of smaller systems.
The formation history of galaxies such as the Milky Way involves infall, mergers and 
interactions with different relative importance probably modulated by the global environment 
where they inhabit.
These mechanisms might leave fingerprints or signatures in the stellar populations which 
could provide  insight in their history of formation.  In particular, chemo-dynamical patterns are a 
challenging route to confront models and observations. State-of-art cosmological codes 
include chemo-dynamical schemes which allow the description of the non-linear evolution of the 
structure together with the chemical enrichment of baryons. These models are powerful tools to 
understand observations in the near and high redshift universe within the current cosmological 
framework.
In this talk, I will summarize results related to the assembly of stellar haloes, the chemical 
properties of stellar populations forming insitu and in accreted satellites and the relation 
between the stellar and dark matter haloes.