A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers and Overweight Galaxies

Dr. Kriek is an assistant professor in the Astronomy Department of the University of California at Berkeley.   Her research focuses on the origin and evolution of galaxies, using spectroscopy and deep multi-wavelength surveys.    Prior to this, She was a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a Russell Fellow at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, and a Ph.D. student at Leiden Observatory, where on the basis of her dissertation, she was declared 'Researcher of the Year 2007' by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Leiden University.   She also  received the Netherlands Christiaan Huygens Science Award for 2008 in the discipline of Space Science.