Daniela Calzetti

Daniela Calzetti
Born
Parma, Italy
Alma materSapienza University of Rome
Known forCalzetti dust extinction law
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
Thesis Large-Scale Distribution of Galaxies and Clusters: The Scale of Inhomogeneity  (1992)
Doctoral advisorRemo Ruffini
"Calzetti" redirects here. For the 17th-century Dutch painter, see Matthias Withoos.

Daniela Calzetti is an Italian-American astronomer known for her research on cosmic dust, star formation, and galaxy formation and evolution, and in particular for the Calzetti dust extinction law, an estimate for how much information about distant galaxies has been obscured by cosmic dust.[1][2] She is a professor of astronomy and head of the astronomy department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and principal investigator of the Legacy ExtraGalactic Ultraviolet Survey project of the Hubble Space Telescope.[2]

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