NIRSpec Instrument & Calibration Scientist

ESA JWST Instrument & Calibration Scientist, working on the NIRSpec Microshutter Assembly, which will enable the collection of >100 faint object spectra simultaneously.
Extragalactic Astronomer with scientific intersts including:
  • Formation and evolution of galaxies in clusters
  • High-redshift galaxies via gravitational (cluster) lensing
Paricularly focusing on dusty star formation probed by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, and multi-wavelength continuum analysis.

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Recent Publications

Quantifying the suppression of the (un)-obscured star formation in galaxy cluster cores at 0.2<z<0.9
Rodríguez-Muñoz et al. 2019, MNRAS, accepted | NASA ADS
 
The SCUBA-2 Cluster Snapshot Survey - I. Catalogue of lensed galaxies and submillimetre-bright central galaxies
Cheale et al. 2019, MNRAS, 484, 2757 | NASA ADS
 
Simulating and interpreting deep JWST/NIRSpec observations in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Chevallard et al. 2019, MNRAS, 483, 2621 | NASA ADS
 

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Mini Bio

2015-ESA JWST NIRSpec Instrument Scientist at STScI
2012-2015ESA Research Fellow at ESAC
2009-2012Postdoctoral research associate with Eiichi Egami at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
2006-2009STFC PhD student at Durham University, supervised by John Lucey and Russell J. Smith

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