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I am currently a Russell Fellow at Princeton University Observatory, but will be moving to the Physics Department of Monash University in 2007. I measure the formation, assembly and evolution of galaxies over cosmic time, using wide-field imaging and spectroscopic surveys of the distant Universe.

In my most recent work, The Evolving Luminosity Function of Red Galaxies, I traced the assembly history of galaxies over the past 8 billion years. Blue star-forming galaxies are being transformed into red galaxies, with little ongoing star formation, between redshifts of z=1 and z=0. In contrast, the stellar masses of the most massive galaxies exhibit modest evolution over the same redshift range. While mergers of red galaxies have been observed, these do not lead to the rapid growth of the stellar masses of the most massive galaxies between z=1 and z=0.

My work is done in collaboration with Buell Jannuzi, Arjun Dey, Glenn Tiede, Kate Brand and the NDWFS survey team. Other recent publications with the NDWFS collaboration include The Infrared Luminosity Function of Type I Quasars and clustering measurements of red galaxies and extremely red objects. Much of the NDWFS data is available from the NDWFS website and a list of NDWFS publications can be found at the ADS website.

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