Title: "The best of two worlds: a z=2.35 DLA galaxy studied in emission using 
HST and VLT"


At high redshift, one of the most powerful methods for studying the enrichment 
of the interstellar medium comes from spectroscopy of damped Lyman-alpha 
absorbers (DLAs). However, linking the absorbing systems to galaxies detected 
in emission has proven to be very difficult due to their faint nature and 
proximity to a very bright quasar. Here we present the results of space and 
ground based facilities working together to shed light on the elusive DLA 
population. We directly detect the faint galaxy at redshift 2.35 next to the 
quasar and are able to constrain its structure, metallicity and stellar 
population from HST imaging and VLT spectroscopy. We find that the galaxy is a 
young, disc-like galaxy with indications of a star-formation driven wind.