Current position
	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz

 

Education
2006-2012	PhD, Astronomy	Yale University (thesis adviser: Pieter van Dokkum)
2002-2005	BSc, Physics	Ben Gurion University of the Negev

 

Research Interests
	Galaxy formation and evolution
	Massive galaxies at low and high redshift
	Galaxy environments and large scale structure

 

Select Publications
	Observations of environmental quenching in groups in the 11 Gyr since z=2.5: different quenching for central and satellite galaxies
	Tal, T., Dekel, A., Oesch, P., Muzzin, A., Brammer, G., van Dokkum, P., Franx, M., Illingworth, G., Leja, J., Magee, D., Marchesini, D., Momcheva, I., Nelson, E., Patel, S., Quadri, R., Rix, H-W., Skelton, R., Wake, D., Whitaker, K., 2014, submitted to ApJ
	Galaxy environments over cosmic time: the non-evolving radial galaxy distributions around massive galaxies since z=1.6
	Tal, T., van Dokkum, P., Franx, M., Leja, J., Wake, D., Whitaker, K., 2013, ApJ, 769
	Observations of dark and luminous matter: the radial distribution of satellite galaxies around massive red galaxies
	Tal, T., Wake, D., van Dokkum, P., 2012, ApJL 751
	Mass growth and mergers: direct observations of the luminosity function of LRG satellite galaxies out to z=0.7 from SDSS and BOSS
	Tal, T., Wake, D., van Dokkum, P., van den Bosch, F., Schneider, D., Brinkmann, J. and Weaver, B. 2012, ApJ 746
	The faint stellar halos of massive red galaxies from stacks of more than 42000 SDSS LRG images
	Tal, T. and van Dokkum, P. G., 2011, ApJ 731
	The Frequency of Tidal Features Associated with Nearby Luminous Elliptical Galaxies from a Statistically Complete Sample
	Tal, T., van Dokkum, P. G., Nelan, J., Bezanson, R. 2009, AJ 138

 

Honors & Awards
	NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012-2015)
	NASA CT Space Grant graduate fellowship (2011-2012)
	Boris Garfinkel award (2009)
	NSF graduate research - honorable mention (2007)
	Beatrice Tinsley award (2007)
	Ben-Gurion University undergraduate award for academic achievements (2005)

 

Conferences
	SC Galaxy workshop - Santa Cruz, CA 2013 (contributed talk, video)
	Observations of satellite galaxies in groups at 0<z<2.5
	Galaxies within the cosmic web - Chicago, IL 2013 (contributed talk)
	The evolution of satellite galaxies in groups at 0<z<1.8
	Galaxy formation from z=5 to z=0 - Leiden, Netherlands 2013 (invited talk)
	Environmental quenching in groups
	NSF fellow symposium - Long Beach, CA 2013 (invited talk)
	Massive galaxy groups at 0<z<1.6
	BOSS meeting - NYU, New York, NY 2012 (contributed talk)
	Observations of the dark and luminous mass profiles of LRG environments at z=0.34
	SDSS III meeting - Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN 2011 (contributed talk)
	Mergers and mass growth: observations of the luminosity function of satellite galaxies around LRGs out to z=0.7
	Galaxy formation - Durham, United Kingdom 2011 (contributed talk)
	Mass growth and mergers: Direct observations of the luminosity function of LRG satellites out to z=0.7
	Evolution of galaxies, their central black holes and their large-scale environment - Potsdam, Germany 2010 (contributed talk)
	The stellar halos of massive red galaxies out to 400 kpc
	The monster's fiery breath: feedback in galaxies, groups, and clusters - Madison, WI 2009 (poster)
	Searching for a gravitational heating signature in nearby luminous ellipticals