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Best Female Scientists

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164
Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
6

Physics

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Citations
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World Ranking
137
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Mara Salvato is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Physics and Astronomy. Their primary focus lies in Astronomy and Astrophysics, with additional work in Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's research areas encompass a range of topics including:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Salvato has collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors notable for their recurring involvement in their publications. These include:

  • A. Merloni
  • K. Nandra
  • Johannes Büchner
  • Teng Liu
  • Johan Comparat

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with prominent publication outlets being:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Astrophysical Journal

Some significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Mara Salvato include:

  • "The eROSITA X-ray telescope on SRG" (2021) published in Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • "COSMOS2020: A Panchromatic View of the Universe to z ∼ 10 from Two Complementary Catalogs" (2022) published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • "The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS)" (2022) published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey" (2024) published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS)" (2021) published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Best Publications

  • The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • The eleventh and twelfth data releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: final data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • COSMOS Photometric Redshifts with 30-bands for 2-deg2

    O. Ilbert;P. Capak;M. Salvato;H. Aussel

  • X-ray spectral modelling of the AGN obscuring region in the CDFS: Bayesian model selection and catalogue

    J. Buchner;A. Georgakakis;K. Nandra;L. Hsu

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti

  • The First Release COSMOS Optical and Near-IR Data and Catalog

    P. Capak;H. Aussel;M. Ajiki;H. J. McCracken

  • The COSMOS2015 Catalog: Exploring the 1 < z < 6 Universe with Half a Million Galaxies

    C. Laigle;H. J. McCracken;O. Ilbert;B. C. Hsieh

  • The First Release COSMOS Optical and Near-IR Data and Catalog

    P. Capak;H. Aussel;H. Aussel;M. Ajiki;H. J. McCracken;H. J. McCracken

  • Mass assembly in quiescent and star-forming galaxies since z ≃ 4 from UltraVISTA

    O. Ilbert;H. J. McCracken;O. Le Fevre;P. Capak

  • The star formation history of mass-selected galaxies in the COSMOS field

    Alexander Karim;Eva Schinnerer;Alejo Martinez-Sansigre;Mark T. Sargent

  • The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

  • Identifying Luminous AGN in Deep Surveys: Revised IRAC Selection Criteria

    Jennifer Donley;A. M. Koekemoer;M. Brusa;P. Capak

  • The Spitzer Legacy Survey of the HST-ACS 2 sq. deg. COSMOS Field: survey strategy and first analysis

    D. B. Sanders;M. Salvato;H. Aussel;O. Ilbert

  • GALAXY STELLAR MASS ASSEMBLY BETWEEN 0.2 < z < 2 FROM THE S-COSMOS SURVEY*

    O. Ilbert;O. Ilbert;M. Salvato;E. Le Floc'h;H. Aussel

  • S-COSMOS: The Spitzer Legacy Survey of the Hubble Space Telescope ACS 2 deg^2 COSMOS Field I: Survey Strategy and First Analysis

    D. B. Sanders;M. Salvato;H. Aussel;H. Aussel;O. Ilbert

  • The Star Formation History of Mass-selected Galaxies in the COSMOS Field

    A. Karim;A. Karim;E. Schinnerer;A. Martinez-Sansigre;A. Martinez-Sansigre;A. Martinez-Sansigre;M. T. Sargent

  • The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data

    Kyle S. Dawson;Jean-Paul Kneib;Will J. Percival;Shadab Alam

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Capak
Peter Capak California Institute of Technology
Anton M. Koekemoer
Anton M. Koekemoer Space Telescope Science Institute
Marcella Brusa
Marcella Brusa University of Bologna
Francesca Civano
Francesca Civano Harvard University
H. J. McCracken
H. J. McCracken Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Andrea Merloni
Andrea Merloni Max Planck Society
Andrea Comastri
Andrea Comastri National Institute for Astrophysics
Herve Aussel
Herve Aussel University of Paris-Saclay
Alexis Finoguenov
Alexis Finoguenov University of Helsinki
Eva Schinnerer
Eva Schinnerer Max Planck Society

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