I am a Galactic archaeologist. I use the compositions of stars to trace the physical processes that built up our Milky Way. I am particularly interested in the disk (the youngest component of our Milky Way where most active star formation occurs). I use spectroscopic survey data (APOGEE and GALAH) as well as observational data that we acquire with instruments such as the Tull Coude Spectrograph on the McDonald Observatory 2.7m telescope. I use both classical (BACCHUS, SME, Turbospectrum, etc.) and data-driven (e.g., The Cannon, Ness et al. 2015) methods to extract high precision elemental abundances from stellar spectra.

A NASA ADS library of my publications, collaborations, and contributions can be found here.