Anahita Alavi

Anahita Alavi serves as Deputy Task Lead for the Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) at Caltech/IPAC, where she leads photometric flux calibration for the Euclid/NISP imaging mission and supports U.S. scientists working with Euclid data. She joined IPAC in 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher and became a staff scientist in 2021 before her recent promotion.

Her research focuses on galaxy evolution at high redshifts, particularly dwarf galaxies at z=1–3 discovered through her PhD work using Hubble Space Telescope observations of gravitationally lensed systems. She employs multi-wavelength data from Hubble, Keck, and JWST to investigate the physical properties and star formation histories of these faint, low-mass galaxies, which differ fundamentally from larger galaxies. Her work extends to studying the cosmic Reionization era.

Alavi actively contributes to mission infrastructure as part of ENSCI’s user support team and data processing efforts for the Euclid mission, which aims to study dark energy and dark matter through a six-year survey of one-third of the sky. Her role includes developing calibration pipelines and maintaining data products at the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA).