Jeyhan Sevim Kartaltepe is an American astronomer, Associate Professor and Director of the Rochester Institute of Technology Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics.
She studied physics at Colgate University, where she majored in astronomy and spent her free time using the 16-inch telescope on campus.
[2] After earning her doctorate Kartaltepe was appointed a postdoctoral researcher at National Optical Astronomy Observatory, where she worked for two years before being made a Hubble Fellow.
[4] She was a founder of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) collaboration.
[5] CEERS is one of the first collaborations to conduct observations using the James Webb Space Telescope, and looks to better understand the abundance of galaxies with photometric redshifts between 3 and 9, as they were 11 – 13 billion years ago.