Curriculum Vitae
Employment
University of Massachusetts Amherst Sep. 2024 - present
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Edinburgh Dec. 2023 - Jun. 2024
Teaching/Postdoctoral Research Associate
Education
University of Edinburgh 2024
PhD in Astronomy
Thesis title: Constraining quenching mechanisms at high redshift: the sizes, masses & star-formation histories of massive galaxies, supervised by Prof. Ross McLure
Imperial College London 2019
MSc in Physics
Queen Mary University of London 2018
BSc in Astrophysics
Publications (significant author contribution, most recent)
M. L. Hamadouche, K. Whitaker, F. Valentino, K. Ito et al. DeepDive: DeepDive: Tracing early quenching pathways of massive quiescent galaxies at z > 3 from star-formation histories and chemical abundances, Submitted to ApJ, arXiv:2602.02485
P. Zhu, K. Ito, F. Valentino, M. L. Hamadouche, et al. DeepDive: There and back again? Neutral outflows in z ∼ 3.5 quiescent galaxies, (in prep. soon to be submitted to A&A)
K. Ito, F. Valentino, G. Brammer, M. L. Hamadouche, K. Whitaker et al. DeepDive:A deep dive into the physics of the first massive quiescent galaxies in the Universe. Submitted to A&A, arXiv:2506.22642.
M. L. Hamadouche, R. J. McLure, A. Carnall, K. Whitaker et al. JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z ≃ 2, MNRAS, Jul. 2025, doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf971.
M. L. Hamadouche, A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. Dunlop et al. The connection between stellar mass, age and quenching timescale in massive quiescent galaxies at z ≃ 1, MNRAS, Mar. 2023, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad773.
M. L. Hamadouche, A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. Dunlop et al. A combined VANDELS and LEGA-C study: the evolution of quiescent galaxy size, stellar mass and age from z = 0.6 to z = 1.3. MNRAS, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stac535.
Total citations: 2,071, h-index: 18, ORCiD: 0000-0001-6763-5551
Selected talks
Galaxy Lunch Talk (invited) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 2025
Quenching Review Talk (invited) Choir Conference, Schoodic Institute, Acadia, ME 2025
Big Galaxies, Big Problems (invited) Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands 2025
Beyond the Edge of the Universe Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal 2024
FCAD Colloquium (invited) Department of Astronomy, UMass Amherst, MA 2024
National Astronomy Meeting Cardiff, Wales, UK 2023
Durham-Edinburgh EXtragalactic Meeting Durham, UK 2023
Rise & Fall of SF Symposium International Astronomical Union, Busan, South Korea 2022
Cosmic Nuggets Conference (invited) Sexten Centre for Astrophysics, Sexten 2022
Mentoring & Teaching
Mentees: Pranav Sasheeth, PENGUIN mentee, University of Florida 2025 - 2026
Madisyn Brooks, PENGUIN mentee, University of Connecticutt 2025 - 2026
Hope Roundcount, Undergraduate Research Project, UMass Amherst 2024 - 2025
Courses: (all taught at the University of Edinburgh) Physics 1B Laboratory, First Year Pre-Honours 2020 - 2024
Telescope Group Project, Senior Honours 2020 - 2023
Discovering Astronomy, First Year Pre-Honours 2021 - 2023
Dynamics & Vector Calculus, Second Year Pre-Honours 2022 - 2023
Observational Astronomy, Junior Honours 2020 - 2022
Introductory Astrophysics Problem-Solving Workshops, First Year Pre-Honours 2020 - 2023
Experimental Physics 2 Laboratory, Second Year Pre-Honours 2022
Stellar Evolution, Senior Honours 2021
Grants & Prizes
| Professional Development Fund (UMass Amherst) | $ 791 | 2025 |
| Best PhD Thesis in Astronomy Prize (University of Edinburgh) | £500 | 2024 |
| Travel Bursary (International Astronomical Union) | * 2,000* | 2022 |
| STFC PhD Research Scholarship (UKRI & STFC) | £17,000pa | 2019 - 2024 |
| Summer Research Internship Grant (QMUL) | £3,000 | 2017 & 2018 |
Telescope Observing Proposals
JWST Cycle 2 Medium Proposal GO-3543 (PI: A. Carnall, F. Cullen): ‘EXCELS: The early extragalactic continuum and emission line survey’ (Co-I, 72 hours; £5.8M)
JWST Cycle 1 Small Proposal GO-2285 (PI: A. Carnall): ‘A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.657’ (Co-I, 8 hours; £610,000)
Collaborations
JWST DeepDive ‘A deep dive into the physics of the first quiescent galaxies’, PI: Valentino
Lead investigator for star-formation histories & chemical abundances of quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 4
Classifying LRDs in the distant Universe PI: Barrufet
Lead investigator for morphologies of LRDs at *z ∼ 6*
JWST EXCELS ‘The early extragalactic continuum and emission line survey’, PIs: Carnall, Cullen
JWST PRIMER ‘Public Release Imaging for Extragalactic Research’, PI: Dunlop
VANDELS ‘A deep VIMOS survey of the CANDELS UDS and CDFS fields’, PIs:McLure, Pentericci
Outreach
Volunteer Astronomy on Tap, Western Mass. Series of public lectures at New City Brewery, MA 2025
Volunteer Granby Library Star-gazing Night Public star-gazing event at Granby Library, MA 2025
Volunteer Eureka! 2-day Workshop “A Cosmic Photoshoot to ImPress”, STEM event for middle schoolers from local underserved communities 2025
Public Talk Astronomy on Tap, Western Mass. ‘Massive, red & dead … or not? The not-so-permanent deaths of massive galaxies’ 2025
Volunteer Astronomy is for Everyone! Public star-gazing events, UMass Amherst, MA 2025
Skills
| Programming languages/tools | Python, Pandas, Numpy, LaTeX, Matplotlib, Slurm, SED fitting |
