Italian-American astrophysicist
"Calzetti" redirects here. For the 17th-century Dutch painter, see
Matthias Withoos .
Daniela Calzetti is an Italian-American astronomer known for her research on cosmic dust , star formation , and galaxy formation and evolution , and in particular for the Calzetti dust extinction law, an estimate for how much information about distant galaxies has been obscured by cosmic dust.[ 1] [ 2] University of Massachusetts Amherst , and principal investigator of the Legacy ExtraGalactic Ultraviolet Survey project of the Hubble Space Telescope .[ 2]
Education and career
Calzetti is originally from Parma .[ 3] Sapienza University of Rome in 1987, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1992, with the dissertation Large-Scale Distribution of Galaxies and Clusters: The Scale of Inhomogeneity supervised by Remo Ruffini .[ 4]
She worked as a researcher for the Space Telescope Science Institute from 1990 to 2007, when she moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[ 4]
Recognition
Calzetti was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.[ 2] [ 3]
References
^ Fischera, Jörg; Dopita, Michael A.; Sutherland, Ralph S. (November 2003), "Starburst galaxies: Why the Calzetti dust extinction law?", The Astrophysical Journal , 599 (1): L21 – L24 , arXiv :astro-ph/0309471 Bibcode :2003ApJ...599L..21F , doi :10.1086/381190 ^ a b c UMass Amherst Astronomer Daniela Calzetti Elected to the National Academy of Sciences: World-renowned expert in how galaxies are formed receives high national honor , retrieved 2020-10-08 ^ a b "Daniela Calzetti" , Member directory , National Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2020-10-08 ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF) , June 2020, retrieved 2020-10-08
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