Christy A. Tremonti is an observational astronomer on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was a 2005

Hubble Fellow The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and science operations center for the ...

while at the University of Arizona. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2003 and her BS from Colgate University in 1994. She completed her dissertation, "The physical properties of low redshift star forming galaxies: Insights from the space-UV and 20,000 SDSS spectra", under the supervision of Timothy M. Heckman. Tremonti's primary interests involve galaxy formation and evolution, including star-forming

galaxies A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. ...

, active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, galactic winds, and galaxy mergers. She is also interested in

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter wa ...

and data mining, and is a member of the

Sloan Digital Sky Survey The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project began in 2000 a ...

. She has over sixty journal articles in publications including the '' Astronomical Journal'', '' Astrophysical Journal'', and the '' Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society''. Most of her articles can be found in full text on the arXiv. Tremonti has over 150 co-authors across her publications. Some of her most frequent collaborators are Timothy M. Heckman, Jon V. Brinkmann, and Donald P. Schneider. According to Scopus, her h-index as of March, 2015 is 44. As of March 15, 2015, Tremonti's top three most highly cited articles present research about the

, including the most highly cited article on which Tremonti was lead author, "The origin of the mass-metallicity relation: Insights from 53,000 star-forming galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey". She was one of the first to use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's statistical power for galaxy evolution studies. Tremonti is a member of the International Astronomical Union.

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*Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, http://www.sdss3.org/ *Image of Christy A. Tremonti, http://www.astro.wisc.edu/img/sized/assets/people/people_tremonti_christy_187_231_cy.png {{DEFAULTSORT:Tremonti, Christy Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Arizona alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty 21st-century American women scientists American women astronomers Hubble Fellows American women academics