ERICA NELSON - Department of Astronomy

E RICA N ELSON
Department of Astronomy, Yale University, 260 Whitney Ave., New Haven CT, 06511, USA
[email protected], +1 203 432 0573
Education
• YALE UNIVERSITY—New Haven, CT
Ph.D. Astronomy (2012-)
– Thesis: The Assembly of Star-Forming Galaxies
– Advisor: Dr. Pieter van Dokkum
M.Phil., M.S. Astronomy (2012)
• POMONA COLLEGE—Claremont, CA
B.A. in Physics & Astronomy
2004-2008
– Advisors: Dr. Barry Madore and Dr. Philip Choi
Awards and Honors
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2012-2015)
• Yale University Stephen B. Butler Fellowship (2010)
• The Frank Parkhurst Brackett, Jr. and Davida Wark Brackett Prize for excellence in
astronomy (2007 & 2008)
• Pomona Scholar (2006, 2007)
• Carly Vogel Fisher Scholarship for Leadership (2004-2008)
Publications
• Nelson, Erica June, et al., A Massive Galaxy in its Core Formation Phase Three Billion
Years After the Big Bang, Nature, 513, 394 (2014)
• Nelson, Erica June, et al., The Radial Distribution of Star Formation in Galaxies at
z ∼ 1 from the 3D-HST Survey, ApJL, 763, 16 (2013)
• Nelson, Erica June, et al., Spatially Resolved Hα Maps and Sizes of 57 Strongly
Star-forming Galaxies at z ∼ 1 from 3D-HST: Evidence for Rapid Inside-out Assembly of
Disk Galaxies, ApJL, 747, 28 (2012)
• van Dokkum, Pieter G., et al. including Nelson, Erica June, Dense Cores in Galaxies
Out to z = 2.5 in SDSS, UltraVISTA, and the Five 3D-HST/CANDELS Fields, ApJ, 791,
45 (2014)
• Maseda, Michael V. et al. including Nelson, Erica June, The Nature of Extreme
Emission Line Galaxies at z = 1-2: Kinematics and Metallicities from Near-infrared
Spectroscopy, ApJ, 791, 17 (2014)
• Whitaker, Katherine E., et al., including Nelson, Erica June,Constraining the
Low-Mass Slope of the Star Formation Sequence at 0.5<z<2.5, arXiv:1407.1843 (2014)
• Tal, Tomer, et al., including Nelson, Erica June,Observations of Environmental
Quenching in Groups in the 11 GYR since z = 2.5: Different Quenching for Central and
Satellite Galaxies, ApJ, 789,164 (2014)
• Genzel, Reinhard, et al. including Nelson, Erica June, Evidence for Wide-Spread
AGN Driven Outflows in the Most Massive z 1-2 Star Forming Galaxies,
arXiv:1406.0183 (2014)
• Price, Sedona H., et al. including Nelson, Erica June, Direct Measurement of Dust
Attenuation in z ∼ 1.5 Star-Forming Galaxies from 3D-HST: Implications for Dust
Geometry and Star Formation Rates, ApJ, 788, 86 (2014)
• van der Wel, et al. including Nelson, Erica June, 3D-HST+CANDELS: The Evolution
of the Galaxy Size-Mass Distribution since z = 3, ApJ, 788, 28 (2014)
• Lang, Philipp, et al. including Nelson, Erica June, Bulge Growth and Quenching since
z = 2.5 in CANDELS/3D-HST, ApJ, 788, 11 (2014)
• Skelton, Rosalind E., et al. including Nelson, Erica June, 3D-HST WFC3-selected
Photometric Catalogs in the Five CANDELS/3D-HST Fields: Photometry, Photometric
Redshifts and Stellar Masses, arXiv:1403.3689 (2014)
• Wuyts, Stijn et al. including Nelson, Erica June, A CANDELS - 3D-HST Synergy:
Resolved Star Formation Patterns at 0.7<z<1.5, ApJ, 779, 135 (2013)
• Leja, Joel, et al. including Nelson, Erica June, Exploring the Chemical Link between
Local Ellipticals and Their High-redshift Progenitors, ApJL, 778, 24 (2013)
• Patel, Shannon G., et al. including Nelson, Erica June, The Structural Evolution of
Milky Way-like Star Forming Galaxies since z ∼ 1.3, ApJ, 778, 115 (2013)
• Maseda, Michael V. et al. including Nelson, Erica June, Confirmation of Small
Dynamical and Stellar Masses for Extreme Emission Line Galxies at z ∼ 2, ApJL, 778, 22
(2013)
• van Dokkum, Pieter G., et al. including Nelson, Erica June, The Assembly of Milky
Way-like Galaxies since z ∼ 2.5, ApJL, 771, 35 (2013)
• Schmidt, Kasper B., including Nelson, Erica June, The Spatial Extent and
Distribution of Star Formation in 3D-HST Mergers at z ∼ 1.5, MNRAS, 432, 285 (2013)
• Lundgren, Britt F. et al., including Nelson, Erica June, Large-Scale Star
Formation-Driven Outflows at 1<z<2 in the 3D-HST Survey, ApJ, 760, 49 (2012)
• Brammer, Gabriel B., et al. including Nelson, Erica June, 3D-HST Grism
Spectroscopy of a Gravitationally Lensed, Low-metallicity Starburst Galaxy at z = 1.847,
ApJ, 758, 17 (2012)
• Fumagalli, Mattia, et al. including Nelson, Erica June, Hα Equivalent Widths from
the 3D-HST Survey: Evolution with Redshift and Dependence on Stellar Mass, ApJ, 757,
22
• Brammer, Gabriel B., et al., including Nelson, Erica June, 3D-HST: A Wide-field
Grism Spectroscopic Survey with the Hubble Space Telescope, ApJS, 200, 13 (2012)
• van Dokkum, Pieter G.. et al., including Nelson, Erica June, First Results from the
3D-HST Survey: The Striking Diversity of Massive Galaxies at z > 1, ApJ, 743, 15 (2011)
• Whitaker, Katherine E., et al., including Nelson, Erica June,The NEWFIRM
Medium-band Survey: Photometric Catalogs, Redshifts, and the Bimodal Color
Distribution of Galaxies out to z ∼ 3, ApJ, 735, 86 (2011)
• Madore, Barry; Nelson, Erica; Petrillo, Kristen. Atlas and Catalog of Collisional Ring
Galaxies ApJS, 181, 572 (2009)
Conferences and Talks
• Contributed talk "The Origin of the Hubble Sequence", Paris, France (2013)
• Seminar, Max Planck Intitut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Germany (2013)
• Seminar, University of California, Berkeley (2012)
• Invited talk, ”Watching galaxies grow up”, Ringberg, Germany (2011)
• Contributed talk ”ISM in high redshift galaxies”, Santiago, Chile (2011)
Teaching, Service, and Leadership
• Referee for the Astrophysical Journal
• Yale Telescope Time Allocation Committee (2013)
• Teaching Fellow, Yale University (2009-2012)
Designed exams and problem sets, developed and ran weekly discussion sections
and review sessions for courses: Introduction to Cosmology (ASTR 170), Life in the
Universe (ASTR 130), Planets and Stars (ASTR 110) & Introduction to Astronomical
Observing (ASTR 155)
• Associate Director of Presidential Campaign Office, Detroit (2008)
• Physics Mentor, Pomona College (Spring 2007- 2008)
• Teaching Assistant, General Physics Lab, Pomona College (2005-2006)
Telescope Experience
• Hubble Space Telescope optical and near-infrared imaging and slitless
spectroscopy, 248 orbits (WFC3 & ACS)
• Keck Observatory near-infrared spectroscopy, 10 nights (NIRSPEC, MOSFIRE)
• WIYN Observatory near-infrared imaging, 10 nights (WHIRC)
• Palomar Observatory near-infrared imaging, 2 nights (WIRC)

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