Academic Positions
Researcher, Centro de Astrobiología (CAB/CSIC-INTA)

• Atraccíon de Talento Senior Fellowship
• European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant PI, "DistantDust"

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
NASA Hubble fellow, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona ​
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona 

Education
Physics Ph.D., University of California at Riverside, USA
Physics M.S., University of California at Riverside, USA
​Physics B.S., University of Tehran, Iran

Research Experience

• James Webb Space Telescope MIRI and NIRCam science and instrument teams

• Graduate Student Researcher, UC Riverside 
  Supervisor: Prof. Naveen Reddy
  Thesis: A Multi-Wavelength Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of Star Formation and Dust in Galaxies in the Early Universe
• The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey 
• Undergraduate Student Researcher, Dept. of Physics, University of Tehran Supervisor: Prof. Mohammad Taghi Tavassoly 
  Project: Measurement of Angular Diameters of Extended Light Sources by Moire Technique​
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July 2023 - present
2023-2028
​2024-2029​

​2021 - 2023
​2018 - 2021
2017 - 2018

September 2017
September 2012
January 2011

​2017 - Present
2011 - 2017


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2013 - Present
2010 - 2011

Successful Observing Proposals as PI 
PI: Keck, 3 nights, NASA and NOIRLab time allocation (2024-2025)
PI: ALMA Large program ACE (140 hours), Cycle 11 (2024-2025)
PI: JWST, 50 hours, Cycle 3 (PAHSPECS program, 2023-2024)
PI: Keck, 3 nights, NASA and NOIRLab time allocation (2022-2023)
PI: ALMA (38 hours, NRAO/NAASC time), Cycle 7 (2019–20)
PI: Large Binocular Telescope/MODS, 2017b and 2018a (4 nights, Arizona and NOAO time) 

Observing Experience
17.5 nights observing experience with MOSFIRE on Keck I telescope
1 night observing experience with DEIMOS on Keck II telescope 
​4 night observing experience with MODS on LBT telescope 
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Honors & Awards 

• ​The University of Arizona Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award: link
• NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship: link
• Biruni Award, Iranian-American Physicists Network Group
• ALMA Ambassador, NRAO
• Robert T. Poe Memorial Scholarship Award, UC Riverside, Physics Dept - presented for outstanding Ph.D. graduate
• ​Dissertation Year Program Award, UC Riverside
• ​NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Robert L. Wild Family Scholarship Award, UC Riverside, Physics Dept - presented for outstanding graduate research by 4th year graduate student​

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• 2021
• ​2018-2021
• ​2018
• ​2018
• 2017

• ​​Fall 2016
• ​2013 - 2016 
• 2015

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First-author and major contribution publications
* Complete list of publications:  https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-libraries/JJuulBVqSwy8BBa9iXfDow​

1. The tight correlation between PAH and CO emission from z ∼ 0 to 4 PDF
   Shivaei, I. & Boogaard L. A&A Letters 691, L2 (2024)
   
2. A new census of dust and PAHs at z=0.7-2 with JWST MIRI PDF
   Shivaei, I., et al. A&A 690, A89 (2024) 
3. Carbonaceous dust grains seen in the first billion years of cosmic time PDF
   Witstok, J., Shivaei, I., Smit, R. et al. Nature 621, 7978 (2023)
4. The UV 2175Å Attenuation Bump and its Correlation with PAH Emission at z~2 PDF
   Shivaei, I., Boogaard, L., Diaz-Santos, T., et al. 2022, MNRAS 514, 1886
5. IR SED and Dust Masses of Sub-solar Metallicity Galaxies at z~2.3 PDF
   Shivaei, I., Popping, G., Rieke, G., et al. 2022, ApJ 928, 68
6. Dependence of the IRX-β dust attenuation relation on metallicity and environment PDF
   Shivaei, I., Darvish, B., Sattari, Z., et al. 2020, ApJL, 903, L28
7. The MOSDEF Survey: Calibrating the relationship between Hα star-formation rate and radio continuum luminosity at 1.4 < z < 2.6 PDF 
   Duncan, K., Shivaei, I., Shapley, A., et al. 2020, MNRAS, 498, 3648
8. The MOSDEF Survey: the Variation of the Dust Attenuation Curve with Metallicity PDF
   Shivaei, I., Reddy, N., Rieke, G., et al. 2020, ApJ, 899, 117 
9. JWST/MIRI Surveys in GOODS-S PDF
   Rieke, G., Alberts, S., Shivaei, I., et al., Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers,  Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 11
10. Near-IR Spectroscopic Studies of Galaxies at z~1-3 PDF
    Shivaei, I., 2019, Proceedings of IAU Symposium 352, arXiv: 1910.06237 
11. The Far-infrared Emission of the First Massive Galaxies​ PDF
    De Rossi, M. E., Rieke, G., Shivaei, I., et al. 2018, ApJ, 869, 4
12. The MOSDEF Survey: Direct Observational Constraints on the Ionizing Photon Production Efficiency at z ∼ 2 PDF
    Shivaei, I., Reddy, N., Siana, B., et al., 2018, ApJ, 855, 42
13. The MOSDEF Survey: Metallicity Dependence of the PAH Emission at High Redshift and Implications for 24μm-inferred IR Luminosities and Star Formation Rates at z ∼ 2 PDF
    Shivaei, I., Reddy, N., Shapley, A., et al., 2017, ApJ, 837, 157
    Also featured in: UCR Today, Phys.org, Science Daily, EurekAlert, Space Daily
14. The MOSDEF Survey: The Strong Agreement Between Hα and UV-to-FIR Star Formation Rates for z ∼ 2 Star-Forming Galaxies PDF
    Shivaei, I., Kriek, M., Reddy, N., et al., 2016, ApJL, 820, L23
    Also featured in: Astronomy UCR, UCR Today, Keck Observatory, Phys.org, Science Daily, EurekAlert, Space Daily, Astronomy Now
15. The MOSDEF Survey: Dissecting the Star-Formation Rate vs. Stellar Mass Relation Using Hα and Hβ Emission Lines at z ∼ 2 ​PDF
    Shivaei, I., Reddy, N. A., Shapley, A. E., et al., 2015b, ApJ, 815, 98
16. Investigating Hα, UV, and IR Star-formation Rate Diagnostics for a Large Sample of z ∼ 2 Galaxies ​PDF
    ​Shivaei, I., Reddy, N. A., Steidel, C. C., & Shapley, A. E., 2015a, ApJ, 804, 10

Invited Talks and Colloquia 

1. [invited talk] Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VII: Stars, Gas & Dust in the Universe, Porto, Portugal, April/May 2024
2. [colloquium] MIT Kavli Institute, Boston, USA, May 2024
3. [colloquium] Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany, January 2024 (talk recording)
4. [invited talk] International Astronomical Union Symposium 377: Early Disk-Galaxy Formation from JWST to the Milky Way, Malaysia, February 2023
5. [seminar] ESO Lunch Talk Series, Germany, February 2022
6. [colloquium] INAF-OAS Bologna, Bologna, Italy, April 2021
7. [colloquium] SOFIA Science Center, USA, March 2021
8. [seminar] Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, University of Crete, Greece, February 2021
9. [colloquium] Dept. of Astronomy at UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, November 2020
10. [colloquium] Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics at Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA, September 2020
11. [colloquium] Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia, July 2020
12. [seminar] Maunakea Observatories Science Seminar, W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii, June 2020
13. ALMA/ASPECS team meeting, Ringberg Castle, Germany, November 2019 
14. [colloquium] Astronomy Dept. at Univ. of Washington, Seattle, Washington, November 2019
15. Revolutionary Spectroscopy of Today as a Springboard to Webb, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, November 2019
16. [colloquium] BashFest, Univ. of Texas Austin, Austin, TX, October 2019
17. IAU Symposium 352, Uncovering early galaxy evolution in the ALMA and JWST era, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, June 2019
18. IR Science Interest Group at AAS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 2019
19. Texas A&M Astronomy Seminar Texas A&M, December 2018
20. [colloquium] NOAO/Steward Observatory joint colloquium, University of Arizona, November 2018
21. Harvard-CfA Galaxies and Cosmology Seminar Harvard, October 2018
22. Characterizing Galaxies with Spectroscopy with a view for JWST, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, October 2017
23. Advances in Galaxy Evolution through a new Generation of Spectroscopic Surveys, MPIA, Ringberg Castle, Germany, June 2017
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Leadership, Service & Outreach

• ​Advisory Committee of Steward Observatory/ Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona
• Co-I and lead of the Galaxy evolution group for SPICE interferometric far-IR probe mission concept
• SOC, JWST Extragalactic Conference at Cambridge (KICC)
• SOC, SAZERAC SIP "Early Galaxy Formation Near and Far" online conference 
• Served on NASA peer review panels
• Postdoc representative, University of Arizona College of Science Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Re-Entry Committee (due to COVID-19, see the guide)
• Chair, University of Arizona JWST Proposal Planning Workshop
• Co-chair, Dusting the Universe conference
• Workshop organizer, Arizona ALMA Community Day
• PI, Mentorship and Education in SCIence for Tucson (MESCIT) mentorship/tutoring program at Ha:san Preparatory and Leadership School for Native American students
• Co-founder and author of Staryab website -- Staryab is a weekly astrophysical literature website in Farsi managed by Iranian astronomers across the world
• Journal Club coordinator, UC Riverside​
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)-UCR outreach committee
• Mentorship for the Enrichment of College and Career Achievement (MECCA) program, Coachella Valley Unified School District, California
• ​Teacher and leader of the Astronomical Society of Riverside STEM Academy ​

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
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Feb 2022 - present

​March 2023
2021
​2018, 2019, 2020
Summer and Fall 2020

​March 16, 2020
​March 4-8, 2019
​April 10, 2018
​Winter 2017 - Present

​2014 - Present
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Fall 2015 - Spring 2017
2015 - 2017
​2015 - 2017

​2012 - 2015