Earl Patrick Bellinger

Assistant Professor (2024 —)
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Main research interests: asteroseismology, stellar ages, stellar evolution, machine learning, artificial intelligence, inverse problems, dark matter, modified gravity, binary and multiple star systems, galactic archaeology, near-field cosmology, exoplanets, black holes, Hawking stars, fundamental physics

MPA Fellowship (2021 — 2023; 5 year fellowship)
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Garching, Munich, Germany

SAC Fellowship (2018 — 2021)
Stellar Astrophysics Centre
Aarhus University, Denmark

Ph.D. Astrophysics / Computer Science

International Max Planck Research School • 2018

 • Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
 • Department of Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
 • Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Germany
Fellow of the National Physical Science Consortium
Thesis Topic: Inverse Problems in Asteroseismology

M.Sc. Computer Science

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA • 2014

School of Informatics and Computing (Minor in Bioinformatics)
Fellow of the National Physical Science Consortium
GPA: 3.94/4.0

B.Sc. Applied Mathematics

B.Sc. Computer Science

State University of New York at Oswego, USA • 2012

Honors Thesis: Multiphase Relations of Magellanic Cloud Cepheids
GPA: 3.81/4.0 (summa cum laude, ranked #1 in computer science)

UNSW Sydney (2019 — 2020)
Visiting Fellow, Sydney, Australia

KU Leuven (3 years; deferred)
FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, KU Leuven, Belgium

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (2015 — 2018)
Research Assistant, Stellar Ages & Galactic Evolution Group, Göttingen, Germany

Yale University (2016 — 2017)
Visiting Assistant in Research, New Haven, CT, USA

Indiana University Bloomington (2013 — 2015)
Research Assistant, Bloomington, IN, USA

[NIST] National Institute of Standards and Technology (Summers 2013, 2014)
Guest Researcher, Information Technology Laboratory, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

[NII] National Institute of Informatics (Spring 2013)
Research Student, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

[NASA] National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Summer 2012)
Summer Research Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA

Federal University of Alagoas (Summer 2011)
IRES/NSF Research Student, Maceió, Brazil

Federal University of Santa Catarina (Summer 2010)
IRES/NSF Research Student, Florianópolis, Brazil

Yale University (2024 —)
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
ASTR 330 — Scientific Computing (Spring 2024)
ASTR 356 — Astrostatistics & Data Mining (Fall 2024)

Aarhus University (2018 — 2021)
Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Advanced Stellar Structure and Evolution (Fall 2018, Fall 2020)
Advanced Projects in Stellar Evolution (Spring 2021)
Advanced Projects in Stellar Astrophysics (Spring 2019, Spring 2020)

Yale University (Spring 2017)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy
ASTR 550 — Stellar Astrophysics

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Summer 2016)
Assistant, Institut für Astrophysik
M.Phy.552 — Numerical Experiments in Stellar Physics

Indiana University Bloomington (Fall 2012)
Associate Instructor, School of Informatics and Computing
CSCI-C211/A591 — Introduction to Computer Science
Ranked in the top 5% of instructors [teaching evaluation]

SUNY Oswego (Fall 2010)
Seminar Leader, Honors Program
HON 150 — Introduction to Honors

Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics (2023)
Senior Participant, Lecturer & Project Supervisor [link]

MESA Summer School (2023)
Organizer & SOC Chair [link]

MESA Summer School (2022)
Organizer & Lecturer [link / slides]

Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics (2021)
Senior Participant & Project Supervisor [link]

Here is a list of students I have supervised or co-supervised on projects or theses. In parentheses says where they are now!
    (^★denotes that I was the main supervisor on the project or thesis)

1. ^★Alejandra Perea Rojas (undergraduate, Harvard University)
2. ^★Marcelo Aron Fetzner Keniger (Ph.D. student, University of Warwick)
3. ^★Arthur Le Saux (Postdoc, Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory)
4. Lynn Buchele (Ph.D. student, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)
5. Felix Ahlborn (Postdoc, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)
6. Marc Hon (Hubble Fellow, University of Hawai'i)
7. Tom Wagg (Ph.D. student, University of Washington)
8. Linhao Ma (Ph.D. student, Caltech)
9. Mami Deka (Ph.D. student, Cotton University)
10. Kenny Roffo (Software engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
11. Daria Mokrytska (Junior AI Scientist, paretos)
12. Janne Mønster (Data Engineer, PostNord DK)
13. Mark Winther (Ph.D. student, Aarhus University)
14. Silke Dainese (Master's student, Aarhus University)
15. Selim Kalici (undergraduate, SUNY Oswego)
16. Hugh Riley Randall (undergraduate, SUNY Oswego)

Google Scholar | ADS | orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-4863
number of publications = 57 | first author = 21 | number of citations = 863 | h-index = 19
Erdős number = 4 (via Steven Reyner, Bennet Manvel & Bela Bollobas)

Refereed Articles

2023

1. Bellinger, E. P., Caplan, M. E., Ryu, T., Bollimpalli, D., Ball, W. H., Kühnel, F., Farmer, R., de Mink, S. E., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (2023). Solar evolution models with a central black hole. The Astrophysical Journal.


2. Bellinger, E. P., de Mink, S. E., van Rossem, W. E., Justham, S. (2023). The Potential of Asteroseismology to Resolve the Blue Supergiant Problem. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, submitted.


3. ^★Buchele, L., Bellinger, E. P., Hekker, S., Basu, S., Ball, W., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (2023). Asteroseismic Inversions for Internal Sound Speed Profiles of Main-sequence Stars with Radiative Cores. The Astrophysical Journal.


4. Caplan, M. E., Bellinger, E. P., Santarelli, A. D. (2023). Is there a black hole inside the Sun? Astrophysics & Space Science invited article
.

5. ^★Ma, L., Johnston, C., Bellinger, E. P., de Mink, S. E. (2023). Variability of Blue Supergiants in the LMC with TESS. The Astrophysical Journal.


6. ^★Bhuyan, G., Deb, S., Kanbur, S. M., Bellinger, E. P., Deka, M., Bhardwaj, A. (2023). Geometry of the LMC based on multi-phase analysis of multi-wavelength Cepheid light curves using OGLE-IV and Gaia DR3 data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.


7. Farmer, R., Renzo, M., Götberg, Y., Bellinger, E. P., Justham, S., de Mink, S. E. (2023). Observational predictions for Thorne-Żytkow objects. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.


8. ^★Vanlaer, V., Aerts, C., Bellinger, E. P., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (2023). On the feasibility of structure inversions for gravity-mode pulsators. Astronomy & Astrophysics.


9. ^★Wilson, T. A., Casey, A. R., Mandel, I., Ball, W. H., Bellinger, E. P., Davies, G. R. (2023). Constraining the Rotation Profile in a Low-Luminosity Subgiant with a Surface Rotation Measurement. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.



2022

10. Bellinger, E. P. & Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (2022). Towards solar measurements of nuclear reaction rates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517 (4).


11. Jermyn, Bauer, Schwab, Farmer, Ball, Bellinger, et al. (2022). Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.


12. ^★Ahlborn, F., Bellinger, E. P., Hekker, S., Basu, S., Mokrytska, D (2022). Improved asteroseismic inversions for red-giant surface rotation rates. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 668 (A98).


13. ^★Deka, Kanbur, Deb, Das, Kurbah, Bellinger, Bhardwaj (2022). Period-Colour and Amplitude-Colour relations for OGLE 𝛿 Scuti stars in the Galactic Bulge and LMC. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517 (2251).


14. ^★Vynatheya, P., Hamers, A. S., Mardling, R. A., Bellinger, E. P. (2022). Algebraic and machine learning approach to hierarchical triple-star stability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516 (3).



2021

15. Bellinger, E. P., Basu, S., Hekker, S., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Ball, W. (2021). Asteroseismic Inference of the Central Structure in a Subgiant Star. The Astrophysical Journal, 915 (2).


16. Caplan, M. E., Freeman, I. F., Horowitz, C. J., Cumming, A., Bellinger, E. P. (2021). Cooling Delays from Iron Sedimentation and Iron Inner Cores in White Dwarfs. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 919 (1).


17. Grunblatt, S. et al. including Bellinger, E. P. (2021). Age-Dating Red Giant Stars Associated with Galactic Disk and Halo Substructures. The Astrophysical Journal, 916 (2).


18. Plachy, E. et al. including Bellinger, E. P. (2021). TESS observations of Cepheid stars: first light results, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 253 (1).

2020

19. Bellinger, E. P. (2020). A seismic scaling relation for stellar age II. The red giant branch. MNRAS Letters, 492 (1), doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slz178.


20. Bellinger, E. P., Kanbur, S. M., Bhardwaj, A., Marconi, M. (2020). When a Period Is Not a Full Stop: Light Curve Structure Reveals Fundamental Parameters of Cepheid and RR Lyrae Stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491 (4), doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz3292.


21. ^★Hon, M., Bellinger, E. P., Hekker, S., Stello, D., Kuszlewicz, J. S. (2020). Asteroseismic Inference of Subgiant Evolutionary Parameters with Deep Learning, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499 (2).


22. ^★Ahlborn, F., Bellinger, E. P., Hekker, S., Basu, S., Angelou, G. C. (2020). Asteroseismic sensitivity to internal rotation along the red-giant branch. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 639, A98.


23. ^★Das, S., Kanbur, S. M., Bellinger, E. P., Bhardwaj, A., Singh, H. P., Meerdink, B., Proietti, N., Chalmers, A., Jordan, R. (2020). The stellar photosphere-hydrogen ionization front interaction in Classical Pulsators: a theoretical explanation for observed period-colour relations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493 (1), doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa182.


24. Angelou, G. C., Bellinger, E. P., Hekker, S., Mints, A., Elsworth, Y., Basu, S., Weiss, A. (2020). Convective boundary mixing in low- and intermediate-mass stars I. Core properties from pressure-mode asteroseismology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493 (4), doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa390.


25. Bo Nielsen, M. et al. including Bellinger, E. P. (2020). TESS asteroseismology of the known planet hoststar λ² Fornacis, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 641, A25.


26. Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. et al. including Bellinger, E. P. (2020). The Aarhus Red Giants Challenge II: Stellar oscillations in the red giant branch phase. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 635, A165.


27. Silva Aguirre, V. et al. including Bellinger, E. P. (2020). The Aarhus Red Giants Challenge I: Stellar structures in the red giant branch phase. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 635, A164.



2019

28. Bellinger, E. P. & Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (2019). Asteroseismic constraints on the cosmic-time variation of the gravitational constant from an ancient main-sequence star. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 887 (1).


29. Bellinger, E. P., Basu, S., Hekker, S., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (2019). Testing stellar evolution with asteroseismic inversions of a main sequence star harboring a small convective core. The Astrophysical Journal, 885 (2), 143.


30. Bellinger, E. P. (2019). A seismic scaling relation for stellar age. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486 (4), doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz714.


31. Bellinger, E. P., Hekker, S., Angelou, G. C., Stokholm, A., Basu, S. (2019). Stellar ages, masses and radii from asteroseismic modeling are robust to systematic errors in spectroscopy. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 622, A130.



2018

32. Tang, Y., Basu, S., Davies, G. R., Bellinger, E. P., Gai, Ning (2018). Asteroseismology of KIC 8263801: Is it a member of NGC 6866 and a red clump star? The Astrophysical Journal, 866 (1), 59.



2017

33. Bellinger, E. P., Basu, S., Hekker, S., Ball, W. (2017). Model-independent Measurement of Internal Stellar Structure in 16 Cygni A and B. The Astrophysical Journal, 851 (2), 80.


34. Angelou, G. C., Bellinger, E. P., Hekker, S., Basu, S. (2017). On the Statistical Properties of the Lower Main Sequence. The Astrophysical Journal, 839 (2), 116.


35. Guggenberger, E., Hekker, S., Basu, S., Angelou, G. C., Bellinger, E. P. (2017). Mitigating the mass dependence in the Δν scaling relation of red-giant stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470 (2), doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1253.



2016

36. Bellinger, E. P., Angelou, G. C., Hekker, S., Basu, S., Ball, W., Guggenberger, E. (2016). Fundamental Parameters of Main-Sequence Stars in an Instant with Machine Learning. The Astrophysical Journal, 830 (1), 20.


37. Guggenberger, E., Hekker, S., Basu, S., Bellinger, E. P. (2016). Significantly improving stellar mass and radius estimates: A new reference function for the Δν scaling relation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461 (2), doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw1326.



2015

38. Glover, M., Bellinger, E. P., Radivojac, P., Clemmer, D. (2015). Penultimate Proline in Neuropeptides. Analytical Chemistry, 87 (16), 8466–8472, doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b01889.


39. Ji, C., Li, Y. F., Bellinger, E. P., Li, S., Arnold, R. J., Radivojac, P., Tang, H. (2015). A maximum-likelihood approach to absolute protein quantification in mass spectrometry. In refereed proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (pp. 296-305).



2012

40. Ngeow, C. C., Kanbur, S. M., Bellinger, E. P., Marconi, M., Musella, I., Cignoni, M., & Lin, Y. H. (2012). Period-luminosity relations for Cepheid variables: from mid-infrared to multi-phase. Astrophysics and Space Science, 341(1), 105-113, doi: 10.1007/s10509-012-1018-5.

Conference Proceedings

2022

1. Bhardwaj, A., Bellinger, E. P., Kanbur, S. M., Marconi, M. (2022). Predicting Physical Parameters of Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables in an Instant with Machine Learning. Proceedings of the IAU GA: Machine Learning in Astronomy.



2021

2. Kanbur, S. M., Bellinger, E. P., Bhardwaj, A., Marconi, M. (2021). Light Curve Structure Reveals Fundamental Parameters of Cepheid and RR Lyrae Stars. Proceedings of RR Lyrae 2019.



2020

3. Bellinger, E. P., Basu, S., Hekker, S. (2020). Inverse analysis of asteroseismic data: a review. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 57 (171).


4. ^★Das, S., Kanbur, S. M., Bellinger, E. P., Bhardwaj, A., Singh, H. P. (2020). A study of the stellar photosphere-hydrogen ionisation front interaction in pulsating variables using period-color relations. ASP Conference Series, 529.


5. ^★Ahlborn, F., Bellinger, E. P., Hekker, S., Basu, S., Angelou, G. C. (2020). Rotational inversions along the lower part of the red-giant branch. Stars and their Variability Observed from Space.



2018

6. Bhardwaj, A., Kanbur, S. M., Marconi, M., Das, S., Bellinger, E. P., Singh, H. P., Rejkuba, M., Ngeow, C.-C. (2018). Time-series analyses of Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables in the wide-field variability surveys. IAUS347, Early Science with ELTs.



2017

7. Bellinger, E. P., Angelou, G. C., Hekker, S., Basu, S., Ball, W., Guggenberger, E. (2017). Fundamental Parameters in an Instant with Machine Learning: Application to Kepler LEGACY Targets. Seismology of the Sun and Distant Stars, EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 160, id.05003.


8. Hekker, S., Elsworth, Y., Basu, S., Bellinger, E. P. (2017). Evolutionary states of red-giant stars from grid-based modelling. Seismology of the Sun and Distant Stars, EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 160, id.04006.



2015

9. Bellinger, E. P., Wysocki, D., Kanbur, S. M. (2015). Measuring amplitudes of harmonics and combination frequencies in variable stars. Communications from the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 105.



2012

10. Bellinger, E. P., Kanbur, S. M., & Ngeow, C.-C. (2012). New insights into the Cepheid PL Relation through the use of multiphase relations. Proceedings of the 20th Stellar Pulsations Conference.


11. Bellinger, E. P. (2012). Multiphase Relations of Magellanic Cloud Cepheids. Proceedings of the 2012 National Conference on Undergraduate Research.


12. Reyner, S., Bellinger, E. P., & Kanbur, S. M. (2012). The approximation of RR Lyrae and eclipsing binary light curves using cubic polynomials. Proceedings of the 20th Stellar Pulsations Conference.



2011

13. Bellinger, E. P., Kanbur, S. M., & Ngeow, C.-C. (2011). Multiphase Comparison of Period-Luminosity Relations for Magellanic Cloud Cepheids. Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics (Vol. 451, p. 311).

Technical Reports

1. The MSE Science Team et al. including Bellinger, E. P. (2019). The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer.


2. Bellinger, E. P. (2018). Inverse Problems in Asteroseismology. Doctoral thesis, International Max Planck Research School.


3. Bellinger, E. P., Conner, D., Mittman, D., Magee, K., & Heventhal, B. (2012). CASSIUS: the Cassini Uplink Scheduler. Jet Propulsion Laboratory: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, hdl:2014/43122.

Other Publications

1. Bellinger, E. P. (2019). An idea to an image: the prediction and confirmation of black holes. Invited book review, Metascience, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, doi: 10.1007/s11016-019-00483-1.

Conferences

11th Applied Inverse Problems Conference
Göttingen, Germany • September 2023
Progress in Asteroseismology: Where We Stand and Where We'll Go

MIAPbP: Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Gaia, Spectroscopic, and Asteroseismic Surveys
Garching, Germany • August 2023
Black holes and asteroseismology

Black Hole & Gravitational Wave Day
Garching, Germany • May 2023
Asteroseismic Constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) Collaboration Meeting
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany • May 2023
Massive Star Asteroseismology with TESS and PLATO

^★TESS/Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium TASC6/KASC13
Leuven, Belgium • July 2022
MESA & GYRE: Stellar models for asteroseismology [code/recording]

European Astronomical Society 2022
Valencia, Spain • July 2022
Asteroseismic insights into solar evolution

Fundamental stellar parameters from asteroseismology in the era of Gaia
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark • June 2022
An asteroseismic expedition for the missing physics in stellar evolution

Stars in Melbourne
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia • December 2019
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics? [slides]

^★Dynamics of the Sun & Stars: Honoring the Life & Work of Michael Thompson
High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colorado • October 2019
Inverse analysis of asteroseismic data: a review [slides] [video]

^★TESS/Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium TASC5/KASC12
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts • July 2019
Experimental tests of stellar pulsation and evolution with TESS and SONG [slides]

Annual Danish Astronomy Meeting (ADAM) 2019
Nyborg, Denmark • May 2019
Seismic evidence against the standard picture of stellar evolution [slides]

TESS/Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium TASC4/KASC11: First Light in a new Era of Astrophysics
Aarhus, Denmark • July 2018
Testing stellar physics with asteroseismic inversions for the core structures of solar-type stars [slides]

ERES-III: Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science
New Haven, CT, USA • June 2017
Fundamental Parameters of Exoplanet Host Stars with Asteroseismology

RR Lyrae 2015
Visegrád, Hungary • October 2015
Resolving combination frequency amplitudes of multi-mode pulsators

American Astronomical Society
Seattle, WA, USA • January 2015
Optimal Model Discovery of Periodic Variable Stars

National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Weber State University, Ogden, UT, USA • March 2012
Multiphase Relations of Cepheid Variable Stars in the Magellanic Clouds

Workshops

^★Flatiron Sun-as-a-star Workshop
Flatiron Institute • March 2023
Searching for long-period oscillations in stacked solar spectrographs

^★MPA-Potsdam Workshop on Hot Subdwarfs
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics • October 2021
Asteroseismic inference of internal stellar structure in solar-like oscillators

^★PLATO WP122 Liège Workshop #4
Liège, Belgium • May 2021
Consistency checks and selection for the PLATO mission

^★TESS Ninja 3
University of Sydney, Australia • February 2020
A novelty and anomaly detector

^★6th Aarhus Workshop on Red Giant Branch Modelling
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany • May 2016
Stellar Parameters in an Instant with Machine Learning

^★Delhi Workshop on Variable Stars
University of Delhi, India • January 2015
Calibrating the Cepheid Distance Scale

^★Kerala Workshop on Stellar Astrophysics
St. Thomas College, Kerala, India • January 2014
Automated Supervised Classification of Variable Stars

Colloquia/Seminars

^★Harvard ITC Lunch Talk
Boston, MA • February 2024
The Search for Hawking Stars

^★Harvard ITC Colloquium
Boston, MA • February 2024
What can asteroseismology do for astrophysics?

^★HITS Seminar
Heidelberg, Germany • October 2023
Black holes and asteroseismology

^★CAS Seminar
Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences • May 2022
Asteroseismic probes of stellar evolution and fundamental physics

^★MPA Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics • December 2021
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?

^★Leuven Institute for Astronomy Seminar
KU Leuven, Belgium • October 2021
Asteroseismic probes of stellar evolution and fundamental physics

^★SESTAS Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics • October 2021
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?

^★University of Victoria ARC Star Talk [recording]
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • April 2021
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?

^★Macquarie Seminar [slides]
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia • February 2020
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?

^★Monash Seminar
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia • January 2020
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?

^★Sydney Seminar
University of Sydney, Australia • October 2019
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?

^★SAC Seminar
Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark • January 2018
Determining Stellar Structure with Asteroseismology Using Novel Techniques

^★Madison Seminar
Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin–Madison • November 2017
From Starlight to Stellar Ages with Asteroseismology

^★IMPRS Solar System School Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany • July 2017
The Seismic Structures of Solar-Type Stars: Surmising the Speeds of Sound Inside 16 Cygni

^★Yale Professional Seminar
Department of Astronomy, Yale University • February 2017
Celestial Chronometry: From Starlight to Stellar Ages

^★IMPRS Solar System School Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany • January 2016
Forward and Inverse Problems in Asteroseismology

^★KUBIC-NII Joint Seminar on Bioinformatics
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan • April 2013
Asynchronous Updating in 1D Cellular Automata with Stochastic Perturbations

^★MPS Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany • February 2015
Resolving combination mode frequencies of multi-mode pulsators

Public Lectures

^★Science Today
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • October 2016
From Starlight to Stellar Ages: A Look Inside the Private Lives of Stars

Quest: Global Laboratory
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • April 2012
Dynamics of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Systems

Quest: Neural Networks
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • April 2012
Synapsolution: Producing Prodigies of Problem Solving

Observing Time

Delta Eri - the first SONG-TESS simultaneous target (P.I.)
SONG telescope • 2018 • 50 nights

Simultaneous observations of oscillations in Procyon with SONG and TESS
SONG telescope • 2018 • 30 nights

Summer Schools

MESA Summer School on Stellar Evolution
U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA • 2016

Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences
Horta, Faial, Azores Islands, Portugal • 2016

Volunteering

St. Baldrick's Foundation
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • 2010, 2011
Helped raise over $50,000 for research to find cures for childhood cancers.

Easy Street Horse & Barnyard Rescue
Amsterdam, NY, USA • 2006 — 2010
Provided care for horses with this IRS approved 501(c)(3) family-run charitable organization.

Music

MegaGauß
Göttingen, Germany • 2015 — 2018
Electric bass, electric guitar, ukulele, bass ukulele, vocals, percussion

Tyler Hall Records
Oswego, NY, USA • 2012

• Well-Read Citizens — “Is This the Morning When We Wake Up?” (10-track LP)
  Composer, co-producer, instrumentalist, and vocalist
• The Occupants — “The Occupied EP” (2-track EP)
  Electric bass

Scholarships and Fellowships

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship • 2021 — 2026

FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship • 2023 — 2026 (deferred)

Stellar Astrophysics Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship • 2018 — 2021

National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowship • 2012 — 2017

SUNY Oswego Presidential Scholarship • 2008 — 2012

Grants

NVIDIA GPU Grant • 2018

SUNY Oswego Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grant • 2012

National Science Foundation International Research Experience for Undergraduates / SUNY Oswego Global Laboratory Scholarship • 2010, 2011 (awarded twice)

National SMART Grant • 2010, 2011 (awarded twice)

National Academic Competitiveness Grant • 2008, 2009 (awarded twice)

Robert Brian Ellis Scholarship • 2011

New York State Federation of Home Bureau Scholarship • 2011

Awards

Oebele Van Dyk Outstanding Computer Science Senior Award • 2012

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence • 2012

Solar evolution models with a central black hole
December 2023
Publication: The Astrophysical Journal
Press Release: English (Max Planck for Astrophysics), English (Max Planck Society), German (Max Planck Society)

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Asteroseismic Constraints on the Cosmic-time Variation of the Gravitational Constant from an Ancient Main-sequence Star
May 2021
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Cosmic Archaeology from an Ancient Pulsating Star
September 2019
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Ripples of an ancient star helped limit the change in the gravitational constant
September 2019
Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Researchers measure the interior of two stars, find our models weren't quite right
January 2018
Publication: The Astrophysical Journal
Press release: English, German (Max Planck Society)

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Scientists measure ages of planet-hosting stars using artificial intelligence
October 2016
Publication: The Astrophysical Journal
Press release: English, German (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

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