Caitlin Casey
Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin
Research Focus
About Caitlin
My research focuses on galaxy formation and evolution, from the earliest times after the Big Bang to the present day. I’m particularly interested in the most massive and luminous galaxies in the Universe, which form stars at rates several hundreds of times higher than our own Milky Way. These extreme, starbursting galaxies pose a unique challenge to cosmological simulations and galaxy formation theory. To date, they have been very difficult to study with optical telescopes because they are also extremely dusty and gas-rich, so learning more about their physical mechanisms requires observations at submillimeter to radio wavelengths, where cold gas and dust emit energy.
Website: http://www.as.utexas.edu/~cmcasey/welcome.html
Honors
2019 - Cottrell Scholar Award,
2018 - AAS Pierce Prize
2010 - Hubble Fellow
2007 - Gates Cambridge Scholar
Education
Postdoc
University of California, Irvine, Physics & Astronomy, 10/2013 - 08/2015
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 09/2010 - 09/2013
Ph.D.
Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 08/2010
Bachelor's
Physics, Applied Mathematics, Astronomy, University of Arizona, 05/2007
