PRESENTERS

TIZIANA DI MATTEO is a Professor of Physics and Director of the McWilliams Center for Cosmology at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her PhD at the University of Cambridge, was a Chandra Fellow at Harvard, and served on the faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. A theoretical astrophysicist, Di Matteo uses powerful supercomputers to simulate galaxy formation and uncover how massive black holes help shape our Universe—stretching from the cosmic dawn to the present day. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has received the Lyle & Shimmins Fellowship, the Pittsburgh Foundation Fellowship, and the Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence. Di Matteo also serves as a Scientific Editor for the Astrophysical Journal and on the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure, and contributes to major collaborations such as the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, the NASA LISA Consortium, and the ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.