Claudia Maraston is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth (UK), where she has been since 2007. She obtained her PhD at the University of Bologna, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich and the Max-Planck Institute for extra-terrestrial physics (MPE) in Garching. In 2005 she was awarded a Marie-Curie fellowship which she held at the University of Oxford. In 2007 she was awarded a Marie-Curie Excellence Team Grant with which she joined the University of Portsmouth. Dr. Maraston is an internationally renowned expert in the modelling of the spectro-photometric and mass properties of galaxies. These Stellar Population Models find ubiquitous applications in astrophysics and cosmology. In particular, they are the tool to study galaxy formation and evolution both theoretically and by interpreting data.
Title: Stellar Population models based on 60,000 empirical spectra