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Christy Tremonti is a professor in the Astronomy Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research focuses on galaxy evolution, particularly the processes that help regulate star formation. As an observational astronomer, she has a strong interest in spectroscopy across ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. Tremonti is an active participant in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) collaboration, working alongside postdoc Yanmei Chen to understand how star formation ceases in massive galaxies using data from SDSS-III. Her graduate student John Chisholm explores the absorption line signatures of galactic winds in massive star-forming galaxies with active black holes, while undergraduate Karissa Metko searches for young, chemically unenriched galaxies with SDSS-III. Christy collaborates with graduate students Paul Sell and Anna Williams to analyze Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope images of extreme 'post-starburst' galaxies in order to understand the causes of abrupt halts in star formation. Prior to her faculty position at UW-Madison, she was a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and a Hubble postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University (1990) and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (2003).
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