Caitlin Casey
American astrophysicist
Caitlin M Casey is an observational astronomer and professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is known for her work in extragalactic astrophysics; she works on the formation and evolution of massive galaxies in the early Universe.
Education and career
Casey's interest in astronomy began as a child when she was given the opportunity to visit the planetarium in Rock Bridge High School in her hometown of Columbia, Missouri.
Casey completed her bachelor's degrees in physics, astronomy and applied mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2007. She attributes her decision to attend Arizona from first attending their Astronomy Camp during high school. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 2010 under a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. While in Cambridge she served as president of the Gates Scholars' Society from 2009 to 2010. Casey was subsequently a NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, and then she spent two years as a postdoc at the University of California, Irvine as a McCue Postdoctoral Fellow of Cosmology. Casey became assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. From 2021 to 2024, Casey was an associate professor at UT Austin, and in 2025 she moved to the University of California Santa Barbara as a full professor in the physics department.
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