Professor Dr. Keith Hawkins

Biography

Keith Hawkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary research interests are in Galactic Archaeology, focusing on the formation, evolution, and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. He employs stellar spectroscopy as the main astrophysical tool to explore these interests. Hawkins is a member and Co-Investigator of the Wootten Center for Astrophysical Plasma Properties at UT Austin, where he utilizes multi-object spectroscopic surveys to understand the chemo-dynamic properties of the Milky Way. His expertise includes high- and low-resolution spectroscopy and stellar chemical abundance patterns. Hawkins completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a Simons Junior Research Fellow at Columbia University and obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, UK, in 2016, where he was awarded the Marshall Scholarship. He completed his undergraduate studies with a B.S. in Astrophysics from Ohio University in 2013, with minors in Mathematics and African Studies.

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