Tiziana Di Matteo is a Professor in the Physics Department and the Director of the McWilliams Center for Cosmology at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She received her Ph.D. in 1998 from Cambridge University, UK. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, she was a Chandra Fellow at Harvard University and a junior faculty member at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany.
Professor Di Matteo is a theorist specializing in high-energy astrophysics and cosmology. Her research focuses on state-of-the-art cosmological simulations of galaxy formation, with a special emphasis on modeling massive black holes throughout cosmic history. She extensively utilizes high-performance computing and has led efforts to run uniquely large-volume and high-resolution simulations to study the formation of the first galaxies and their black holes during the cosmic dawn of the universe. Di Matteo became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014. She is the recipient of a Pittsburgh Foundation Fellowship and an Award for Excellence from the Carnegie Science Center. Among her national committee roles, she serves on the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. She is also a member of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, the NASA LISA Consortium, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.
