Christy A. Tremonti is an observational astronomer on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was a 2005 Hubble Fellow while at the University of Arizona.[1] She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2003 and her BS from Colgate University in 1994. She completed her dissertation, "The physical properties of low redshift star forming galaxies: Insights from the space-UV and 20,000 SDSS spectra",[2] under the supervision of Timothy M. Heckman.[3]
As of March 15, 2015, Tremonti's top three most highly cited articles present research about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,[10] including the most highly cited article on which Tremonti was lead author, "The origin of the mass-metallicity relation: Insights from 53,000 star-forming galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey".[11] She was one of the first to use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's statistical power for galaxy evolution studies.[12]
^Tremonti, C. A; Heckman, T. M; Kauffmann, G; Brinchmann, J; Charlot, S; White, S. D. M; Seibert, M; Peng, E. W; Schlegel, D. J; Uomoto, A; Fukugita, M; Brinkmann, J (2004). "The Origin of the Mass--Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star-Forming Galaxies in the SDSS". The Astrophysical Journal. 613 (2): 898–913. arXiv:astro-ph/0405537. Bibcode:2004ApJ...613..898T. doi:10.1086/423264. S2CID119337139.