Education
The University of California, San Diego (2006-2011)
• Ph.D. in Physics (2011)
The University of California, Los Angeles (2004-2006)
• Masters of Science in Astronomy (2006)
The University of Arizona (2000-2004)
• Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astronomy (2004)
• Magna Cum Laude and Honors
Selected Work Experience
Space Telescope Science Institute (2016-present)
• COS Branch Manager (2020-present)
• WFC3 Branch Deputy (2019-2020)
• Archive Scientist (2018-2019)
• Support Scientist (2016-2018)
Johns Hopkins University (2017-present)
• Associate Research Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2014-2016)
• NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
California Institute of Technology, IPAC (2011-2014)
• Postdoctoral Researcher
Selected Publications (1st and 2nd author)
126 refereed journal papers published or accepted to date, garnering 6000+ citations, leading to an H-index of 45. First and second author papers listed below:
Oyarzun, Grecco, Rafelski, Marc, Kanekar, N., Prochaska, J.X., Neeleman, M., Jorgenson, R.A., A survey of Ly-alpha emission around Damped Ly-alpha absorbers at z~2 with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, Accepted Astrophysical Journal 2024
Revalski, Mitchell, Rafelski, Marc, Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Pirzkal, N., Sunnquist, B., Prichard, L., Henry, A., Bagley, M., Dutta, R., Papini, G., Battaia, F.A., D'Odorico, V., Dayal, P., Estrada-Carpenter, V., Lofthouse, E.K., Lusso, E., Morris, S.L., Nedkova, .V., Papovich, C., Peroux, C. , The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). III. Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Grism Spectroscopy and Imaging, 2023 Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 265, 40
Mintz, Abby, Rafelski, Marc, Jorgenson, R.A., Fumagalli, M., Dutta, R., Martin, Crystal L., Lusso, E., Rubin, K.H.R., O'Meara, J.M, Constraining the Size of the Circumgalactic Medium Using the Transverse Autocorrelation Function of C IV Absorbers in Paired Quasar Spectra, 2022 Astronomical Journal, 164, 51
Prichard, Laura, Rafelski, Marc, Cooke, J., Mestric, U., Bassett, R., Ryan-Weber, E., Sunnquist, B., Alavi, A., Hathi, N., Wang, X., Revalski, M., Bajaj, V., O'Meara, J., Spitler, L., Lyman Continuum Galaxy Candidates in COSMOS, 2022 Astrophysical Journal, 924,14
Henry, Alaina, Rafelski, Marc, Sunnquist, B., Pirzkal, N., Pacifici, C., Atek, H., Bagley, M., Baronchelli, I., Barro, G., Bunker, A. J., Colbert, J., Dai, Y. S., Elmegreen, B. G., Elmegreen, D. M., Finkelstein, S., Kocevski, D., Koekemoer, A., Malkan, M., Martin, C. L., Mehta, V. Pahl, A., Papovich, C., Rutkowski, M., Sanchez A.J., Scarlata, C., Snyder, G., Teplitz, H., The mass-metallicity relation at z~1-2 and its dependence on star formation rate, 2021 Astrophysical Journal, 919, 143
Guo, Y., Rafelski, Marc, Bell, Eric. F., Conselice, C.J., Avishai, D., Faber, S.M., Giavalisco, M., Koekemoer, A.M., Koo, D.C., Lu, Y., Mandelker, N., Primack, J.R., Ceverino, D., De Mello, D.F., Ferguson, H.C., Hathi, N., Kocevski, D., Lucas, R., Perez-Gonzalez, P.G., Ravindranath, S., Soto, E., Straughn, A., Wang, W. Clumpy Galaxies in CANDELS II: Physical properties of UV-Bright Clumps at 0.5<z<3, 2018 Astrophysical Journal, 853,108
Rafelski, Marc, Gardner, J.P., Fumagalli, M., Neeleman, M., Teplitz, H.I., Grogin, N., Koekemoer, A., Scarlata, C., The Star Formation Rate Efficiency of Neutral Atomic-dominated Hydrogen Gas in the Outskirts of Star Forming Galaxies from z~1-3, 2016, Astrophysical Journal, 825, 87
Guo, Y., Rafelski, Marc, Faber, S. M., Koo, D.C., Krumholz, M.R., Trump, J.R., Willner, S. P., Amorín, R., Barro, G., Bell, E.F., Gardner, J.P., Gawiser, E., Hathi, N.P., Koekemoer, A.M., Pacifici, C., Pérez-González, P.G., Ravindranath, S., Reddy, N., Teplitz, H.I., Yesuf, H., The Bursty Star Formation Histories of Low-mass Galaxies at 0.4<z<1 Revealed by Star Formation Rates Measured from FUV and H_beta, 2016, Astrophysical Journal, 833, 1
Rafelski, Marc, Teplitz, H.I., Gardner, J.P., Coe, D., Bond, N.A., Koekemoer, A., Grogin, N., Kurczynski, P., McGrath, E.J., Bourque, M., Atek,H., Brown, T.M., Coe, D., Colbert, J.W., Codoreanu, A., Ferguson, H.C., Finkelstein, S.L., Gawiser,E., Giavalisco, M., Gronwall, C., Hanish, D.J., Lee, K., Mehta, V., de Mello, D.F., Ravindranath, S., Ryan, R.E., Scarlata, C., Siana, B.D.,Soto, E., Voyer, E.N., UVUDF: Ultraviolet Through Near-infrared Catalog and Photometric Redshifts of Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, 2015, Astronomical Journal, 150, 31
Marc Rafelski, Marcel Neeleman, Michele Fumagalli, Arthur Wolfe, Jason X. Prochaska, The Rapid Decline in Metallicity of Damped Ly-alpha Systems at z~5, 2014, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 782, L29
Teplitz, H.I., Rafelski, Marc, Kurczynski, P., Bond, N.A., Grogin, N., Koekemoer, A., Atek,H., Brown, T.M., Coe, D., Colbert, J.W., Ferguson, H.C., Finkelstein, S.L., Gardner, J.P., Gawiser,E., Giavalisco, M., Gronwall, C., Hanish, D.J., Lee, K., de Mello, D.F., Ravindranath, S., Ryan, R.E., Siana, B.D., Scarlata, C., Soto, E., Voyer, E.N., Wolfe, A.M., UVUDF: Ultraviolet Imaging of the Hubble Ultradeep Field with Wide-field Camera 3, 2013, Astronomical Journal, 146, 159
Marc Rafelski, Arthur Wolfe, Jason X. Prochaska, Alexander Mendez, Marcel Neeleman, Metallicity Evolution of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems out to z~5, 2012, Astrophysical Journal, 755, 89
Marc Rafelski, Arthur Wolfe, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Star Formation from DLA Gas in the Outskirts of Lyman Break Galaxies at z~3, 2011, Astrophysical Journal, 736, 48
Marc Rafelski, Wolfe, Arthur M., Cooke, Jeff, Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Armandroff, Taft E., Wirth, Gregory D.., Deep Keck u-band Imaging of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: A Catalog of z~3 Lyman Break Galaxies, 2009, Astrophysical Journal, 703, 2050
Marc Rafelski, Ghez, A. M., Hornstein, S. D., Lu, J. R., Morris, M., Photometric Stellar Variability in the Galactic Center, 2007, Astrophysical Journal, 659, 1241
Hughes, John P., Rafelski, Marc, Warren, Jessica S., Rakowski, Cara, Slane, Patrick, Burrows, David, Nousek, John, The Chandra View of the Supernova Remnant 0506-68.0 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 2006, Astrophysical Journal, 645, L117
Marc Rafelski & Dennis Zaritsky, The Star Clusters of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Age Distribution, 2005, Astronomical Journal, 129, 2701
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