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Guinevere Kauffmann

Guinevere Kauffmann

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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108
Citations
78246
World Ranking
954
National Ranking
39

Physics

D-Index
112
Citations
85932
World Ranking
1074
National Ranking
92

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Guinevere Kauffmann is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research spans several subfields including Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, General Health Professions, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work has addressed multiple topics within astrophysical research, especially centered on galaxies and their evolution, star formation studies, and broader cosmic phenomena. Key topical areas include:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Kauffmann has authored and coauthored numerous papers, with frequent publications in:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (17 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (15 publications)
  • The Astrophysical Journal (6 publications)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics (5 publications)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University) (1 publication)

Important recent papers include:

  • The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Galaxy formation with L-GALAXIES: modelling the environmental dependency of galaxy evolution and comparing with observations, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • L-GALAXIES 2020: The evolution of radial metallicity profiles and global metallicities in disc galaxies, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Characterizing the abundance, properties, and kinematics of the cool circumgalactic medium of galaxies in absorption with SDSS DR16, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Comparing galaxy formation in the L-GALAXIES semi-analytical model and the IllustrisTNG simulations, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia (7 coauthored publications)
  • Dylan Nelson (6 coauthored publications)
  • Sanchayeeta Borthakur (6 coauthored publications)
  • Emanuele Paolo Farina (6 coauthored publications)
  • Aura Obreja (6 coauthored publications)

Best Publications

  • The host galaxies of active galactic nuclei

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Christy Tremonti;Jarle Brinchmann

  • The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies

    Darren J. Croton;Volker Springel;Simon D. M. White;G. De Lucia

  • The Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star-forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Christy A. Tremonti;Christy A. Tremonti;Timothy M. Heckman;Guinevere Kauffmann;Jarle Brinchmann

  • The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift universe

    J. Brinchmann;S. Charlot;S. Charlot;S. D. M. White;C. Tremonti;C. Tremonti

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

    C. Stoughton;R. H. Lupton;M. Bernardi;M. R. Blanton

  • Stellar masses and star formation histories for 105 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D. M. White;Stéphane Charlot;Stéphane Charlot

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The formation and evolution of galaxies within merging dark matter haloes

    G Kauffmann;Simon D.M. White;B. Guiderdoni

  • The host galaxies and classification of active galactic nuclei

    Lisa J. Kewley;Brent Groves;Guinevere Kauffmann;Tim Heckman

  • Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0

    Volker Springel;Simon D. M. White;Giuseppe Tormen;Guinevere Kauffmann

  • THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

    Kyle S. Dawson;David J. Schlegel;Christopher P. Ahn;Scott F. Anderson

  • The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Scott F. Anderson

  • From dwarf spheroidals to cDs: Simulating the galaxy population in a LCDM cosmology

    Qi Guo;Simon White;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Gabriella De Lucia

  • The dependence of star formation history and internal structure on stellar mass for 105 low‐redshift galaxies

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D. M. White;Stéphane Charlot

  • A unified model for the evolution of galaxies and quasars

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Martin Haehnelt

  • The environmental dependence of the relations between stellar mass, structure, star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Simon D. M. White;Timothy M. Heckman;Brice Ménard

  • The size distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Shiyin Shen;H. J. Mo;Simon D. M. White;Michael R. Blanton

  • From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

    Qi Guo;Simon White;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Gabriella De Lucia

  • First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality

    Dylan Nelson;Annalisa Pillepich;Volker Springel;Volker Springel;Rainer Weinberger

  • Clustering of galaxies in a hierarchical universe - I. Methods and results at z=0

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Joerg M. Colberg;Antonaldo Diaferio;Simon D. M. White

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy M. Heckman
Timothy M. Heckman Johns Hopkins University
Simon D. M. White
Simon D. M. White Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
David Schiminovich
David Schiminovich Columbia University
Stephane Charlot
Stephane Charlot Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Volker Springel
Volker Springel Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Mark Seibert
Mark Seibert Carnegie Institution for Science
Jarle Brinchmann
Jarle Brinchmann University of Porto
Martha P. Haynes
Martha P. Haynes Cornell University
Michael R. Blanton
Michael R. Blanton New York University
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University

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