curriculum vitae

University of Canterbury – Ph.D. in Astronomy

• Supervised by Professor Peter Cottrell.
• Thesis: Spectral Matching for Elemental Abundances of Evolved Stars of Globular Clusters

University of Canterbury – M.Sc. in Astronomy

• Supervised by Professor Peter Cottrell.
• Thesis: Stellar elemental abundance determination using a Fabry-Pérot Interferometer

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales

• Sydney, Australia

Research Fellow at the Australian Astronomical Observatory

• Sydney, Australia

Research Fellow at the Macquarie University

• Sydney, Australia

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • The astrophysical origins of spectro-seismology (10 nights)
  • A Comprehensive Spectroscopic Survey of Southern Stellar Streams (7.5 nights)
• ESO VLT
  • One Stream or Two: Chemical Abundances of the Indus and Jhelum Stellar Streams (30 hours)
  • A Spectroscopic Exploration of the Tidal Extensions of omega Centauri (11 hours)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • The GALAH Survey: Phase 2 (155 nights over 4 semesters)
  • The astrophysical origins of spectro-seismology (15 nights)
  • The K2-HERMES follow-up program (13 nights)
  • The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (14 nights)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • The K2-HERMES follow-up program (15.5 nights)
  • The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (13 nights)
  • Tracing the metal-poor tail of the inner Galaxy with the Pristine survey (4.5 nights)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • The HERMES K2 followup program (10 nights)
  • Chemical tagging between stellar streams and globular clusters (3 nights)
  • The HERMES K2 followup program (10 nights)
  • How many extremely metal-poor stars in the Milky Way are on disk orbits? (3 nights)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • The GALAH Survey: Phase 2 (41 nights)
  • The Galaxy's Dark Side: Dynamical Studies with the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (10 nights)
  • Hierarchical star formation in Ori OB1 (4 nights)
• Magellan Telescopes
  • Chemical abundances of a faint, metal-poor globular cluster (1 night)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • Dynamical Studies of DES Stellar Streams (10 nights)
  • The HERMES-TESS program (8 nights)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • Open clusters with HERMES (5 nights)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • Open clusters with HERMES (13 nights)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • How Extended is the Stellar Envelope of NGC5694? (6 hours)
  • The GALAH Survey: Phase 2 (35 nights for 2 semesters)
• Keck Observatory
  • ESO452: Exploring self-enrichment in low mass stellar clusters (0.5 nights)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • Probing the low mass regime of globular clusters (6 hours)
  • The HERMES K2-follow-up program (12 nights for 4 semesters)

• Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • The GALAH Survey (35 nights for 4 semesters)

• “The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey” at ACAMAR Future of Traditional Survey Science (Online)
• “The Milky Way is not special: accreted stars also inhabit the Spite Plateau” at 2021 ASA Annual Scientific Meeting (Melbourne, Australia)
• “The Milky Way is not special: accreted stars also inhabit the Spite Plateau” at 2021 GALAH Science Meeting (Sydney, Australia)

• “The Galah Survey: Chemically tagging the Fimbulthul stream to the globular cluster ω Centauri” at GES 2019: The Legacy of the Gaia-ESO Survey (Florence, Italy)
• “The Fimbulthul stellar stream was tidally stripped from the globular cluster ω Centauri” at 2019 ASA Annual Scientific Meeting (Brisbane, Australia)
• “Mapping stellar streams with LSST” at LSST@Asia (Sydney, Australia)

• “A very nitrogen-rich star in the very low-mass, very metal-poor cluster ESO280-SC06” at Survival of Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way System (Heidelberg, Germany)
• “Flying the nest to the Magellanic Clouds and Bridge with GALAH and TESS-HERMES” at ASA Annual Scientific Meeting (Melbourne, Australia)
• “Pushing the envelope on globular clusters” at ASA Annual Scientific Meeting (Melbourne, Australia)

• “The GALAH survey: Discovery of dissolving star clusters” at Surveying the Cosmos, The Science From Massively Multiplexed Surveys (Sydney, Australia)
• “What happened to the horizontal branch of ESO280-SC06?” at Stars in Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
• “The GALAH survey: Co-orbiting stars and chemical tagging” at Celebration of CEMP \& Gala of GALAH workshop (Melbourne, Australia)
• “What happened to the horizontal branch of ESO280-SC06?” at Australian Institute of Physics Summer Meeting 2017 (Sydney, Australia)

• “Probing the low-mass regime of globular clusters” at Multiple populations in globular clusters: Where do we stand? (Sexten, Italy)
• “Tips and tools to work with reduced data” at ITSO/AAO Observational Techniques Workshop (Sydney, Australia)

• “Searching extra-tidal stars of globular clusters with the GALAH survey” at Multiwavelength Dissection of Galaxies (Sydney, Australia)

• “C+N+O abundance of evolved stars of NGC1851” at Bolton Symposium (Sydney, Australia)

• “Spectral matching for elemental abundances of evolved stars of globular clusters” at The Origin of Cosmic Elements (Barcelona, Spain)

• “Carbon, nitrogen and barium abundances of giant branch stars of ω Centauri using spectral matching” at Nuclei in the Cosmos (Cairns, Australia)

• “Stellar parameters and barium abundances in ω Centauri GB by spectral matching” at 6th Stromlo Symposium on IFU Science in Australia (Canberra, Australia)

• “The Milky Way is not special: accreted stars also inhabit the Spite Plateau” at Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics and Symmetries (N3AS) (Online)

• “Trying to solve the lithium problems of dwarf and giant stars with the GALAH Survey” at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)

• “Chemical tagging stellar streams and co-moving stars with the GALAH Survey” at Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)