Kai G. Noeske Keck Foundation Fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street, MS 65 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Room M-210 Phone: (617) 495-7027 Fax : (617) 495-7490 knoeske(at)cfa.harvard.edu

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and work with the groups led by Giovanni Fazio and Lars Hernquist. I am studying evolutionary processes in galaxies, using data from the AEGIS collaboration, the DEEP2 survey, and the new FIDEL Spitzer Legacy Survey, projects that I joined during my time at Lick Observatory.

My main research interest are the history of star formation in field galaxies over the last two thirds of the age of the Universe. The AEGIS collaboration has compiled observations from many spacecrafts - Spitzer, Hubble, GALEX, Chandra, and others - and large telescopes on the ground. Together with my collaborators, we are using these data to understand how stars were born back in time: when did large, massive galaxies make their stars, and when the smaller, less massive ones? Did stars form in short intense episodes, or mostly in a continuous manner? And what are the physical processes behind what we see?