Dr. Gabriella De Lucia

Gabriella De Lucia, Ph.D. is Postdoc, Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany. Her research interests include semi-analytic modeling of galaxy formation, clusters of galaxies, and evolution of galaxies in different environments.
 
Gabriella was first author of Substructures in cold dark matter haloes, The Buildup of the Red Sequence in Galaxy Clusters since z ~ 0.8, The formation history of elliptical galaxies, and The hierarchical formation of the brightest cluster galaxies, and coauthor of The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colors of galaxies and The Evolution of the Star Formation Activity in Galaxies and Its Dependence on Environment. Read the full list of her publications!
 
She earned her Laurea in Physics (cum laude) at the University “Federico II”, Italy with the thesis “Evolutionary models for elliptical galaxies at low redshift” in 2000. She earned her Doctor Rerum Naturalium (Ph.D.) at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany with the thesis “Evolution of galaxies in clusters” in 2004. In 2008, she won the Starting Independent Researcher Grant from the European Community. In February 2009, she will begin a 5-year Senior Researcher position at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste.
 
Read Gabriella De Lucia answers a few questions about this month’s fast moving front in the field of Space Science.