Aliza Beverage

I am an NHFP Hubble Fellow at Carnegie Observatories. My research focuses on the formation and evolution of massive galaxies across cosmic time, with an emphasis on their chemical compositions and chemical evolution. I specialize in optical-NIR spectroscopy and am a co-PI of two successful JWST/NIRSpec programs. I completed my PhD at UC Berkeley, working with Mariska Kriek and Dan Weisz, and earned my undergraduate degree in physics and astrophysics from the University of Minnesota. Outside of astronomy, I enjoy backpacking, lifting weights, knitting, and eating good food!

alternatetext June lake, July 2023 backpacking trip to the Eastern Sierras

Research

My research is focused on distant massive galaxies; how they formed and why they quenched. Using ultra-deep spectrosocpy, I measure their chemical compositions, which offer a unique window into their formation histories. I am a part of the Keck Heavy Metal team, which has gathered some of the deepest ground-based rest-frame optical spectroscopy of distant (z>1.4) galaxies. I am also a co-PI of the JWST-SUSPENSE program, which has gathered deep spectroscopy of massive quiescent galaxies at z=1-3 and provided the first multi-element compositions for a statistical sample of galaxies at these redshifts. I am also a co-PI of a JWST NIRSpec Cycle 3 program, which aims to measure the low-mass IMF of massive galaxies at z=0.7. In future work, I will combine these measurements with detailed chemical evolution modeling.

You can find my python version of the alf code here.

Check out my first author papers:



Check out a few of my other publications: