Melissa Ness

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Biography

I am an Assistant Professor at Columbia University in New York City. I work as closely to the data as possible in the pursuit of understanding how Galaxies like our Milky Way have formed and evolved. I am undertaking galactic archaeology with a number of large surveys, including GALAH and Gaia. Using these surveys, I am looking to understand the relationship between the time stars were born, their chemical properties and orbits. Now in 2024 Professor of Astronomy, ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics