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Polymath World # Episode 26 - DR ANKE ARENTSEN-ARDERN
ASTROPHYSICS
WHAT IS GALACTIC ARCHAEOLOGY?
Dr Anke Arentsen-Ardern is an observational astronomer in the field of Galactic Archaeology at Cambridge's world famous Institute of Astronomy. She works on the formation and evolution of the ancient Milky Way and the properties of old stellar populations, using observations of old, metal-poor stars, typically utilising spectroscopy. Anke has been a Herchel Smith Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy and Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge University. She did her undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Groningen in the…
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