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Keith Hawkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2016, where his dissertation focused on 'Dissecting Milky Way Spectroscopic Studies'. Dr. Hawkins has a B.S. in Astrophysics, with minors in Mathematics and African Studies, from Ohio University, which he obtained in 2013. His research interests lie primarily in Galactic Archaeology, where he explores the formation, evolution, and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy using stellar spectroscopy as his main astrophysical tool. He is a member and Co-Investigator at the newly established Wootten Center for Astrophysical Plasma Properties (CAPP) at UT Austin and specializes in high- and low-resolution spectroscopy to study stellar chemical abundance patterns. His work also intersects with areas such as Cosmology, Space Statistics, and Big Data Machine Learning.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy, focusing on research in Galactic Archaeology.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Currently serving as an Associate Professor, continuing research in the field of Astronomy.
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