Why Aren’t the Biggest Galaxies Forming Stars?

Evan Scannapieco is an Assoc. Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State (ASU). He studied at Harvard and UC Berkeley, where he got his PhD, and he was a KITP postdoc before moving to ASU in 2006. His research is focused on achieving a better understanding of feedback processes in galaxy formation and the evolution of the elements across cosmic time.
A native of Los Alamos, New Mexico, Evan can’t remember a time when he wasn’t surrounded by science and nature.