B.S. University of Washington (2010)
Ph.D. New Mexico State University (2015)
I work on Galactic Archaeology, which is the study of the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. I study how stars and stellar populations have formed over the course of the Galaxies history, mapping out the structure of the Galactic disk, bulge, and halo with large spectroscopic surveys like SDSS, GALAH, and 4MOST. I have served as one of the PIs for the GALAH survey, and am currently one of the project scientists for 4MOST. I study how chemical elements have been produced with time, and build detailed chemical evolution models to explain the present day structure of the Milky Way. I also compare our Milky Way to other galaxies, and am helping lead programs such as the GECKOS survey to study edge on galaxies using IFU spectroscopy.
