Dawn Erb

Research:

Professor Erb's research interests include galaxy formation and evolution, the kinematics, chemical evolution and stellar populations of galaxies at high redshift, feedback processes in starburst galaxies, and the evolution of the intergalactic medium at high redshift.

Biographical Sketch:

Dawn Erb received her Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 2005 from the California Institute of Technology. She was a CfA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 2005-2008. The following two years Erb was a Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Univerity of California. Since 2010, she has been at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she holds the rank of Assistant Professor and she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Selected publications:

• D. K. Erb, M. Pettini, A. E. Shapley, C. C. Steidel, D. R. Law, N. A. Reddy
  Physical Conditions in a Young, Unreddened, Low Metallicity Galaxy at High Redshift
  Astrophysical Journal, 719, 1168 (2010)
• D. K. Erb
  A Model for Star Formation, Gas Flows and Chemical Evolution in Galaxies at High Redshifts
  Astrophysical Journal, 674, 151 (2008)
• D. K. Erb, C. C. Steidel, A. E. Shapley, M. Pettini, N. A. Reddy, K. L. Adelberger.
  Hα Observations of a Large Sample of Galaxies at z~2: Implications for Star Formation in High Redshift Galaxies Astrophysical Journal, 647, 128 (2006)
• D. K. Erb, C. C. Steidel, A. E. Shapley, M. Pettini, N. A. Reddy, K. L. Adelberger.
  The Stellar, Gas and Dynamical Masses of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2
  Astrophysical Journal, 646, 107 (2006)
• D. K. Erb, A. E. Shapley, M. Pettini, C. C. Steidel, N. A. Reddy, K. L. Adelberger.
  The Mass-Metallicity Relation at z>2
  Astrophysical Journal, 644, 813 (2006)