June 27th-29th, 2018

I work on Galactic Archaeology, which is the study of the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. I did my PhD at New Mexico State University working with Jon Holtzman and Jo Bovy with the APOGEE survey, which is an SDSS3 and SDSS4 spectroscopic survey of several hundred thousand red giants across the Milky Way. I spent two years working in Nice at the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur with the Gaia-ESO and AMBRE projects, which have spectroscopic observations of tens of thousands of stars throughout the Galaxy. 

Currently, I am an ASTRO 3D fellow working at the University of Sydney with the GALAH Survey. GALAH  is a large-scale spectroscopic survey of 500,000 stars throughout the Milky Way, and aims to measure chemical abundances for 30 different elements to map and chemically tag the stellar populations of the Galaxy. In my talk, “Chemical Cartography of the Milky Way”, I will discuss the chemodynamic properties of different stellar populations throughout the disk and how they vary with location.

I attached a figure of some preliminary results from the GALAH survey, showing how the chemical structure of the disk varies from the inner Galaxy to the edge of the disk.