About
me...
My name is Nathan De Lee, and I'm a postdoctoral
research scholar in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at the
Vanderbilt University. More often than not, I can be
found in my office in room 6902 Stevensen Center. I
am currently working with Keivan Stassun on a
variety of projects including the SDSS-III MARVELS
project.
I went to the University of Kansas for my
undergraduate work majoring in both Physics and
Astronomy. I worked with Bruce Twarog and
Barbara Anthony-Twarog on metal rich open clusters.
I went on to do my graduate work at Michigan State
University working with Horace Smith and Timothy
Beers. I worked on a number of projects
including RR Lyrae stars and field horizontal branch
stars. This work culminated in my thesis:
RR Lyrae in the SDSS-II SN Survey. My first
postdoctoral position was at the University of
Florida working Jian Ge on the MARVELS radial
velocity exoplanet survey.
Major areas of research interest:
Projects I am
currently working on:
- SDSS-III MARVELS project
- Tracing the Thin and Thick Galactic Disk
with RR Lyrae from KELT
- Tracing the Galactic halo with RR Lyrae from
the SDSS-II SN Survey
- Photometric metallicity determinations of RR
Lyrae in SDSS g, r, and i
- Variable star search of the Fornax Dwarf
Galaxy
- Studying Oosterhoff types with NGC 6304
- Type II Cepheid Project
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