Duane M. Lee

I'm a Galactic astronomer who studies the structural formation and evolution of the Milky Way and it's nearby galactic neighbors by modeling and statistical analysis of their stellar chemical abundance ratio distributions (CARDs). In particular I develop galactic chemical evolution models of dwarf galaxies and statistical methods to derive accretion and star formation histories of the Milky Way halo and nearby dwarf galaxies using primarily the chemical abundances of individual stars in these galactic stellar systems. In addition to this work, I also aim to derive the stellar mass-dependent (nucleosynthetic) yields of neutron-capture elements like Strontium and Barium by exploiting the CARDs found in these stellar systems.