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Associate Astronomer
Katey is an Associate Astronomer who was part of the JWST Science Policies group and served as the JWST Policies Lead for Cycle 4. Her research interests include understanding how galaxies quench their star formation and become quiescent from a multiwavelength observational perspective. Specifically, Katey follows the gas, and pays attention to the supermassive black holes. She is a co-lead of the Post-starburst Group at STScI as well as a lead of the Shocked Poststarburst Galaxy Survey.
Science Interests:
- AGN feedback
- Understanding all pathways to galaxy transformation
- Extragalactic star formation
- Turbulence and shocks
- The origin and fate of molecular gas
- The first quenched galaxies
Research Topics: AGN and Quasars, Galaxy Formation and Evolution
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