Aliza Beverage

I am a graduating PhD student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UC Berkeley working with Mariska Kriek and Dan Weisz. 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 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: