Allison Strom
Assistant Professor
PhD, California Institute of Technology, 2017
- allison.strom@northwestern.edu
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- 1800 Sherman #8043
Professor Strom uses some of the largest telescopes on the ground and in space to study how galaxies form and evolve. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the baryonic processes that determine galaxies’ varied formation histories within dark matter halos, including accretion from the cosmic web, winds and feedback from massive stars, and large-scale outflows. Strom is an expert in using deep rest-UV and rest-optical spectroscopy of star-forming galaxies across redshift to trace changes in their physical conditions and chemical abundances.
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Honors and Awards
- Packard Fellow, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, 2024
- Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation For Science Advancement, 2024
- Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2024
Research Interests
- Chemical evolution of galaxies, combining spectroscopic observations and models
- Physical properties of distant galaxies: star formation rates, stellar and gas masses, electron densities, ionization parameters, and ionizing radiation fields
- Massive stellar populations in galaxies: rest-UV and rest-optical signatures, contributions to feedback, and correlation with energetic outflows