M. Claudia Scarlata Director of Graduate Studies for MIfA, Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy Contact 612-626-1811 mscarlat@umn.edu John T. Tate Hall Room 285-08 116 Church Street Se Minneapolis, MN 55455 Affiliations Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics (MIfA) Biographical Info Research & Teaching Publications & Awards Education Ph.D., Padova University, 2004 M.S.(summa cum laude), Padova University, 1999 Professional Background Member, Cosmology Survey Multi-Cycle Treasury program (CANDELS) Member, COSMOS and z-COSMOS collaboration Referee, ApJ, MNRAS Member, HST review panel Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution: Massive galaxies, Evolution of galaxy structure. Lyα line as a cosmological tool: Escape of Lyα photons, Large-scale structure, Lyα blobs. Reionization: Lyman continuum escape fraction, IR background fluctuations. http://homepages.spa.umn.edu/~scarlata/research.html Research Group Cosmology Survey Multi-Cycle Treasury Program (CANDELS) Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) Collaboration z-COSMOS Collaboration Selected Publications Colbert, Scarlata et al., Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission within Lyα Blobs, Astrophysical Journal [abstract] Bundy, Scarlata et al. , The Rise and Fall of Passive Disk Galaxies: Morphological Evolution Along the Red Sequence Revealed by COSMOS, Astrophysical Journal [abstract] Scarlata et al., He II Emission in Lyα Nebulae: Active Galactic Nucleus or Cooling Radiation?, Astrophysical Journal [abstract] Scarlata et al., The Effect of Dust Geometry on the Lyα Output of Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal Letters [abstract] Scarlata et al., The Redshift Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in COSMOS: Do Massive Early-Type Galaxies Form by Dry Mergers?, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series [abstract] Scarlata et al., COSMOS Morphological Classification with the Zurich Estimator of Structural Types (ZEST) and the Evolution Since z = 1 of the Luminosity Function of Early, Disk, and Irregular Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]
