Dr. Erini Lambrides
NPP Fellow @ NASA-Goddard
I specialize in the formation and evolution of massive black holes, including characterizing their relationship with their surrounding environments from the first galaxies to present day. I use telescopes like JWST, Chandra, the VLA, and other state-of-the-art facilities to leverage high-fidelity multi-wavelength data and alongside simulations. I'm on the NASA Infrared Science \& Technology Integration Group (IR STIG) Leadership Council, leading AGN science within the COSMOS Collaboration, and contributing to the AGN science cases for proposed future missions such as AXIS and the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
The Formation and Fate of Growing Supermassive Blackholes
We are currently in a massive black hole renaissance! Facilities such as JWST, ALMA, Chandra and more are highlighting several outstanding foundational questions on their origin, growth and impact in the context of galaxy evolution.
From re-ionizing the Universe to stifling the star-formation of galaxies – the process of growing SMBHs via periods of intense accretion is often invoked as a necessary phenomena that shapes the Universe we live in today. For the past few decades the extra-galactic community has grappled with placing the onset growing super-massive black-holes, hereinafter referred to as active galactic nuclei (AGN) with meaningful changes to the global ISM of their host-galaxies and their impact on their surrounding large-scale environment. Consensus is building that not all AGN are formed alike, and that the environment they are formed in is critical to understanding their potential impact in the future.
My recent work is largely centered on building holistic models of massive black holes that require finding and characterizing complete samples of AGN across epochs.
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