Professor Melissa Ness
Astronomer
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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About
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Affiliations
Research interests
-Milky Way formation: stellar spectroscopy, surveys, data-driven models, bulge, disk and halo
-Chemical evolution and nucleosyntheis: element abundance distributions and dimensionality
-Galaxy formation: constraints from stellar age, element abundances and orbital properties
Projects
- ACACIAS: A local group census, Supervisor
- Chemical tagging the Milky Way halo, Supervisor
- GALAH High Fidelity and Disk Archaeology, Supervisor
- Modelling Giants Stars with Asteroseismology and MESA, Supervisor
Supervised students
Location
Woolley - Upper - W31