Exploration of the Milky Way - Our Cosmic Home - California Academy of Science

Dr. Keith Hawkins is an Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. in astrophysics with minors in Mathematics and African Studies from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University as a Templeton and Goldwater Scholar in 2013. After which, Dr. Hawkins completed a 2.5 year Ph.D. in Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge in the UK as a British Marshall Scholar. He was appointed a Junior Fellow in the Simons Foundation's Society of Fellows at Columbia University between 2016-18. In 2018, he entered the Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. He has won numerous awards, including the Vera Rubin Distinguished Visiting Professor \(2023\) and the Flatiron Institute IDEA Fellowship \(2022\), and has been a Scialog and Kavli Fellow. His research interests are primarily in Galactic archaeology, with the goal of revealing the formation and evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, through detailed chemical and dynamical studies of its billions of stars.