curriculum vitae

Full Name Jeffrey Simpson
Contact jeffrey.simpson@unsw.edu.au

Education

Current Employment

  • since 2018
    Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales
    • Sydney, Australia

Previous Employment

  • 2015 - 2018
    Research Fellow at the Australian Astronomical Observatory
    • Sydney, Australia
  • 2013 - 2015
    Research Fellow at the Macquarie University
    • Sydney, Australia

Competitively awarded telescope time

  • 2021B
  • 2020B
    • 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)
  • 2020A
    • 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)
  • 2019B
    • 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)
  • 2019A
    • 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)
  • 2018B
    • Anglo-Australian Telescope
      • Dynamical Studies of DES Stellar Streams (10 nights)
      • The HERMES-TESS program (8 nights)
  • 2018A
    • Anglo-Australian Telescope
      • Open clusters with HERMES (5 nights)
  • 2017B
    • Anglo-Australian Telescope
      • Open clusters with HERMES (13 nights)
  • 2017A
    • 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)
  • 2016A
    • Anglo-Australian Telescope
      • Probing the low mass regime of globular clusters (6 hours)
      • The HERMES K2-follow-up program (12 nights for 4 semesters)
  • 2015A
    • Anglo-Australian Telescope
      • The GALAH Survey (35 nights for 4 semesters)

Contributed conference talks

  • 2019
  • 2018
    • “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)
  • 2017
    • “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)
  • 2016
    • “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)
  • 2015
    • “Searching extra-tidal stars of globular clusters with the GALAH survey” at Multiwavelength Dissection of Galaxies (Sydney, Australia)
  • 2014
    • “C+N+O abundance of evolved stars of NGC1851” at Bolton Symposium (Sydney, Australia)
  • 2013
    • “Spectral matching for elemental abundances of evolved stars of globular clusters” at The Origin of Cosmic Elements (Barcelona, Spain)
  • 2012
    • “Carbon, nitrogen and barium abundances of giant branch stars of ω Centauri using spectral matching” at Nuclei in the Cosmos (Cairns, Australia)
  • 2011
    • “Stellar parameters and barium abundances in ω Centauri GB by spectral matching” at 6th Stromlo Symposium on IFU Science in Australia (Canberra, Australia)

Departmental Seminars/Colloquia