Tiziana Di Matteo (astrophysicist)

Not to be confused with Tiziana Di Matteo (econophysicist).

Tiziana M. Di Matteo is an astrophysicist and cosmologist. Born in Italy and educated in Canada and England, she has worked in Germany and the US; she directs the McWilliams Center for Cosmology & Astrophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is a professor of physics.[1] Her research has involved the computer simulation of galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy mergers, the effects of these mergers on the growth of the supermassive black hole at the centers of galaxies, and the effects of these black holes on the growth of the galaxies that surround them.[2][3][4][5]

Education and career

Di Matteo is originally from Bologna, in Italy. After attending an international high school in Vancouver, Canada,[6][4] she read astrophysics at University College London in England, graduating with first class honours in 1995. She then went to Trinity College, Cambridge for doctoral study in astrophysics, completing her Ph.D. in 1998.[7] Her doctoral dissertation, Studies of hot plasmas and black-hole accretion, was supervised by Andrew Fabian.[8]

She became a Chandra Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University from 1998 to 2001, and a researcher and professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany from 2001 to 2005. She moved to Carnegie Mellon University as an associate professor in 2005, and became a full professor there in 2014.[7]

Recognition

Di Matteo was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014, "for pioneering work in computational cosmology which has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the impact and growth of black holes in structure formation."[9]

References

  1. ^ "Tiziana Di Matteo", Physics faculty, Carnegie Mellon University, retrieved 2024-11-09
  2. ^ Amos, Jonathan (April 7, 2005), "Deepest X-rays tell merger story", BBC News, retrieved 2024-11-09
  3. ^ Cain, Fraser (February 10, 2005), "Black Holes Manage Galactic Growth", Universe Today, retrieved 2024-11-09
  4. ^ a b Roth, Mark (August 31, 2009), "The Thinkers: Black holes, black energy and the history of the universe", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 2024-11-09
  5. ^ Wolchover, Natalie (June 12, 2018), "The universe is not a simulation, but we can now simulate it", Quanta Magazine, retrieved 2024-11-09
  6. ^ "Worldly", CMU Today, April 2010, retrieved 2024-11-09
  7. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), Carnegie Mellon University, retrieved 2024-11-09
  8. ^ "Tiziana M. Di Matteo", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2024-11-09
  9. ^ "Fellows nominated in 2014", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, archived from the original on 2023-01-07