Guillermo Barro is a postdoctoral researcher at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. He is part of the CANDELS and AEGIS collaborations, leading the efforts to assemble multiwavelength galaxy catalogs in the most important deep fields. He is also the web master of the
Rainbow Cosmological Surveys Database. His primary scientific interests are in studying the early assembly of the most massive galaxies and the mechanisms responsible for quenching of star formation. View all of Guillermo's posts
here.
Eric Bell is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Astronomy at the
University of Michigan. His studies focus on observational investigation of the physics of galaxy evolution using large survey datasets from the
Hubble Space Telescope, the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
PanSTARRS1, and
Magellan.
A few questions he's currently thinking about are: Why do some galaxies
grow through star formation, while others long ago ceased to form new
stars? How frequently do galaxies interact with each other? What are the
effects of these interactions? View all of Eric's posts
here.
Karina Caputi is Assistant Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, in the
Netherlands. Her research focuses on the multi-wavelength study of
infrared-selected galaxies at different redshifts: massive galaxies
(selected in the near- and mid-infrared), and dusty star-forming galaxies
(selected in the mid- and far-infrared). View all of Karina's posts here.
Romeel Dave' is an Associate Professor of astronomy at the
University of Arizona who studies galaxy formation using supercomputers. View all of Romeel's posts
here.
Mark Dickinson is an Associate Astronomer on the scientific staff of the
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, in Tucson, Arizona. His research focuses on the use of deep field observations at many different wavelengths to study the formation and evolution of galaxies in the distant universe. He was a member of the team that carried out the Hubble Deep Field observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, and later was principal investigator for The
Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) Spitzer Legacy Program, as well as for far-infrared observations of the GOODS and CANDELS fields with Spitzer and now with the Herschel Space Observatory. View all of Mark's posts
here.
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| Timothy Dolch |
Timothy Dolch recently finished his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University
and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. He is now a
postdoctoral researcher at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH. His interests
include large scale diffuse structures and cosmological backgrounds,
including the turbulent interstellar medium, the stochastic
gravitational wave background, and the optical/infrared background and
its fluctuations. View all of Timothy's posts
here.
Sandy Faber is a staff astronomer and faculty member at the
University of California Observatories at
UC Santa Cruz. Her scientific interests are galaxy formation and astronomical instrumentation, including the Hubble project. She is currently serving as co-PI on the CANDELS survey and is interested in using CANDELS images to study the emergence of modern Hubble morphologies near redshift z ~ 2. View all of Sandy's posts
here.
Harry Ferguson is an astronomer at the
Space Telescope Science Institute, and co-Principal Investigator for the CANDELS project. He has worked on observations of deep space since the original
Hubble Deep Field in 1996. He is interested in a broad range of topics from explaining the brightness of the night sky, to understanding the evolution of dwarf galaxies, to measuring the change in the expansion rate of the universe. He is also active in preparing for the
James Webb Space Telescope and the
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. View all of Harry's posts
here.
Steven Finkelstein is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Astronomy at the
University of Texas at Austin. His interests lie in the discovery and characterization of the most distant galaxies in the universe, in order to learn more about our origins, and how galaxies evolve. He lives in Austin with his wife Keely (also an astronomer), and their 2-year old son Kieran. View all of Steven's posts
here.
Jeyhan Kartaltepe is a
Hubble Fellow at the
National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. Her primary scientific interests are in the role that
galaxy mergers play in galaxy evolution, star formation, and the feeding of black holes and how this role has changed over cosmic time. She is an active member of several collaborations, including
CANDELS,
COSMOS, and GOODS-Herschel. View all of Jeyhan's posts
here.
Dale Kocevski is an assistant professor in the
Physics and Astronomy Department at the
University of Kentucky in Lexington. He is the group leader for the
CANDELS AGN team and an active member of the
AEGIS collaboration. His primary scientific interests are in studying the role that supermassive black holes play in galaxy evolution and how environment affects the star formation and nuclear activity of galaxies. View all of Dale's posts
here.
Anton Koekemoer is a research astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. His
main research interests are the formation and growth of black holes in
the early universe, and their subsequent co-evolution with galaxies
through cosmic time. He has been in charge of producing the large Hubble
imaging mosaics for many projects in which he has been an active member
for over a decade, including GOODS, COSMOS, AEGIS, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and most recently CANDELS, among others. He has also been
involved in supporting the imaging cameras on Hubble and preparing for
the James Webb Space Telescope. View all of Anton's posts here.
I am faculty in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the
University of California, Santa Cruz with a joint appointment as staff astronomer of the University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory. My main research interests over the last 35 years have been to push technology and the largest telescopes in the optical and near-infrared to explore the early assemblage, nature, and transformations of galaxies and supermassive black holes (known generically as Active Galactic Nuclei or AGN) through deep multi-wavelength surveys using spectroscopy and imaging. View all of David's posts
here.
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Elizabeth McGrath is an
assistant professor in the Department
of Physics and Astronomy at Colby College
in Maine. She is an observational
astronomer whose research focuses on the formation and evolution of galaxies
more massive than the Milky Way.
Specifically, she is interested in determining which physical mechanisms
are responsible for the cessation of star formation and the assembly of mass
over time.
Janine Pforr recently finished her PhD at the
University of Portsmouth, in the United Kingdom, and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher
for CANDELS at the
National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson,
Arizona. Her interests are the stellar population properties of
galaxies, e.g. stellar mass, galaxy evolution and multiwavelength
surveys. View all of Janine's posts
here.
Lauren Porter is a graduate student at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on using semi-analytic modeling to
examine the formation and evolution of massive elliptical galaxies. As
part of the CANDELS collaboration, Lauren is studying the growth of
massive compact galaxies at high redshift. View all of Lauren's posts
here.
Steve Rodney is a
Hubble Post-doctoral Fellow at
The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the group leader for the
CANDELS Supernova Team, and also manages the supernova search for
CLASH, another large HST survey. Steve is measuring the supernova
explosion rate in the early universe and using those rates to learn
about supernova progenitor systems. View all of Steve's posts
here.
David Rosario is a junior research scientist at the
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. He is interested in the energetics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their relationship to galaxies, in particular questions like: What processes bring gas into an AGN? How do AGN feed their energy back to their hosts and drive outflows? Do AGN influence the formation of stars in galaxies? View all of David's posts
here.
Mara Salvato is a staff member at
Max- Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, in Garching, Germany. She is an active member of several collaborations, including
CANDELS,
COSMOS,
EMU and, recently
eROSITA, the next all-sky Xray mission. She wants to understand the role of the
AGN phase in galaxy evolution. For doing that a major ingredient is to know the accurate distance (redshift) of as many AGN as possible. That's
why she looks at the X-ray sky (most of the AGN are shining at this
wavelength) and computes the redshift for all of the sources by using
multi-wavelength photometry and a technique called "
photometric redshift"
. View all of Mara's posts
here.
Jonathan is an observational astronomer who studies active galaxies: that is, galaxies with an accreting supermassive black hole. Currently a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, Jonathan is particularly interested in the co-evolving growth of black holes and galaxies: how do galaxies feed their black holes, and how do black holes influence star formation in their host galaxies? Because active galaxies emit over a wide range of energies, Jonathan uses telescopes spanning the electromagnetic spectrum: observing in X-rays (Chandra, XMM-Newton), ultraviolet (GALEX), optical (Hubble, Keck, Subaru, Magellan), infrared (Spitzer), and radio (VLA) light. View all of Jonathan's posts here.
Arjen van der Wel is a postdoctoral researcher at the
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. His research has mostly focussed on the evolution of massive galaxies. Through observations provided by surveys such as CANDELS he has constructed a description of the processes that drive their formation history and growth. More recently, his attention shifted to an unexpected discovery in the CANDELS data: a population of very small galaxies caught in the act of their initial formation. View all of Arjen's posts
here.
Carolin Villforth is currently a postdoctoral researcher at
University of Florida. Her primary scientific interests are understanding how
Active Galactic Nuclei are triggered and how they are connected to the
evolution of their host galaxies.
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| Tao Wang |
Tao Wang is a junior research scientist at the
Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. He is now mainly working on the relation between structure and stellar population contents of massive galaxies since z~2, and how star-forming galaxies are transformed into quiescent galaxies. He is also interested in
AGN and their role in galaxy evolution. View all of Tao's posts
here.
Benjamin Weiner is an assistant astronomer at
Steward Observatory at the
University of Arizona, in Tucson. He is co-responsible for planning and processing CANDELS grism observations. His research interests include studying galaxy evolution through star formation and kinematics, using spectroscopy and near- and far-infrared observations; the links between short and long lived phases of galaxy evolution; gaseous outflows from galaxies and their link to quasar absorption lines and the circumgalactic medium; and astronomical instrumentation. View all of Benjamin's posts
here.
Tommy Wiklind is an Associate Astronomer at the
European Southern Observatory, associated with the
Joint ALMA Observatory in Santago Chile. His research ranges from the molecular interstellar medium in galaxies, near and far, to multi-wavelength observations of distant galaxies. The overall aim is to understand how galaxies form and evolve. He got introduced into deep field observations while working at the
STScI and has never looked back. In his spare time, he's trying to fit synthetic spectral energy distributions to as many galaxies as possible, hoping to learn something about their properties. View all of Tommy's posts
here.
Christina Williams is currently a graduate student at the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst working with the CANDELS collaboration. She is interested in the clustering of galaxies, and what causes galaxies to quench their star-formation early in cosmic time. View all of Christina's posts
here.
Stijn Wuyts is a junior research scientist at the
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. In order to
understand the life path of galaxies, he investigates how their global
structure (whether they are disks or spheroids, big or small) relates to
their stellar population content: How many stars a galaxy has formed?
When? How many stars it is still forming? And in which conditions? In
addition to studying the global properties of distant galaxies, he also
uses Hubble’s sharp eye to dissect the spatially resolved stellar
populations within them. View all of Stijn's posts
here.
