Tiziana di matteo biography of rory

Astrophysicist and cosmologist

Not to be confused with Tiziana Di Matteo (econophysicist).

Tiziana M. Di Matteo is an astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Born in Italy and educated in Canada and England, she has worked in Germany and the US; she directs the McWilliams Center for Cosmology & Astrophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is a professor of physics.^[1] Her research has involved the computer simulation of galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy mergers, the effects of these mergers on the growth of the supermassive black hole at the centers of galaxies, and the effects of these black holes on the growth of the galaxies that surround them.^[2][3][4][5]

Education and career

Di Matteo is originally from Bologna, in Italy.

After attending an international high school in Vancouver, Canada,^[6][4] she read astrophysics at University College London in E