Jeyhan Kartaltepe
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Jeyhan Sevim Kartaltepe | |
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| Alma mater | Colgate University University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | National Optical Astronomy Observatory Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | A multiwavelength study of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies in the cosmos field (2009) |
Jeyhan Sevim Kartaltepe is an American astronomer, Associate Professor and Director of the Rochester Institute of Technology Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics. Her research considers observational astronomy and galaxy evolution. She is a lead investigator on the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey and the COSMOS-Webb Survey conducted on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Kartaltepe is from San Antonio. She studied physics at Colgate University, where she majored in astronomy and spent her free time using the 16-inch telescope on campus.[1] She moved to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for her graduate studies. She completed a master's degree in 2005, and embarked on a doctorate researching galaxies in the cosmos field.[2] After earning her doctorate Kartaltepe was appointed a postdoctoral researcher at National Optical Astronomy Observatory, where she worked for two years before being made a Hubble Fellow. At the NOAO Kartaltepe investigated the interconnecting roles galaxy mergers and active galactic nuclei play amongst ultraluminous infrared galaxies.[3]
