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Dominika Wylezalek

Dominika Wylezalek is Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics at the Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University. She studied physics in Heidelberg and Cambridge and received her doctorate from LMU Munich. After research stays at Johns Hopkins University (USA) and the European Southern Observatory, she has been leading a research group on galaxy evolution at Heidelberg University since 2020 and one of 13 projects worldwide that were able to evaluate the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope. In 2023, she was recognized by the European Astronomical Society as the "best European early-career scientist in observational astrophysics" and by the German Astronomical Society with the "Ludwig Biermann Award." In 2024, she received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG).