Ted Mackereth, PhD.

Senior Data Scientist, OceanMind

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INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Senior Data Scientist | OceanMind | 2022 - Present

RESEARCH POSITIONS

• CITA Fellow | University of Toronto, Canada | 2020 - 2022
• Dunlap Institute Fellow | University of Toronto, Canada | 2020 - Present
• Banting Fellow | University of Toronto, Canada | 2020 - Present
• Galactic Archaeology Research Fellow | University of Birmingham, UK | 2019 - 2020

EDUCATION

• Postgraduate Research Student | Liverpool John Moores University, UK | 2015 - 2019
• MPhys, Astrophysics | University of Liverpool, UK | 2011 - 2015

GRANTS, AWARDS & HONOURS

• Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSERC, 2020
• LJMU Faculty of Engineering Dean's Best Thesis Prize , Liverpool John Moores Univesity, 2019
• Dunlap Institute Visiting Member, University of Toronto, Canada, 2017
• SDSS Early Career Travel Fund Grant, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 2018
• RAS Personal Grant, The kinematics and dynamics of mono-abundance populations in the Milky Way using Gaia and APOGEE, Royal Astronomical Society, 2017

MEDIA

• Interviewed by Bloomberg Quicktake for a documentary on upcoming James Webb Space Telescope observations
• Featured in Japanese National Broadcaster NHK's Cosmic Front NEXT documentary on the 'Miracle Milky Way'
• Consulted for scientific input on the upcoming BBC/PBS Nova series 'The Universe', follow up to the Brian Cox series 'The Planets'
• Quoted in a press release, picked up by a number of high profile news outlets, about the age-dating of the naked eye star Nu Indi

SELECTED TALKS

• The stellar age revolution with asteroseismology, spectroscopy and machine learning Invited Talk (Remote), AAS 238 Meeting-in-a-Meeting: Machine Learning in Astronomy, Virtual
• A 'genetic' approach to constraining the assembly of the Milky Way Invited Seminar (Remote), CITA Seminar, CITA, University of Toronto, Canada
• A 'genetic' approach to constraining the assembly of the Milky Way Invited Seminar (Remote), Friday Scientific Lunch Talk, NOIRLab, University of Arizona, USA
• Linking insights into the disc, bulge and halo for a holistic approach to constraining the assembly of the Milky Way Invited Seminar (Remote), High-energy Astrophysics Seminar, University of Utah, USA
• Linking insights into the disc, bulge and halo for a holistic approach to constraining the assembly of the Milky Way Invited Seminar (Remote), AstroPizza Seminar, Padova Observatory, Italy
• Linking insights into the disc, bulge and halo for a holistic approach to constraining the assembly of the Milky Way Invited Seminar (Remote), Astrophysics Seminar, University of Birmingham, UK
• The Milky Way as a Galaxy: Contextualising the Milky Way with APOGEE and MaNGA Invited Plenary Talk (Remote), SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting 2020, New York City, NY, USA
• Linking insights into the disc, bulge and halo for a holistic approach to constraining the assembly of the Milky Way Invited Seminar (Remote), Astrophysics Seminar, University of Nottingham, UK
• Linking insights into the disc, bulge and halo for a holistic approach to constraining the assembly of the Milky Way Contributed Talk, The Gaia Treasure Hunt, MW-GAIA COST action workshop, Cambridge, UK
• Constraints on the assembly of the Milky Way from APOGEE, Gaia and the EAGLE simulations Invited Talk, KITP Conference: ‘In the balance: stasis and disequilibrium in the Milky Way’, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
• Constraining the formation of the Milky Way disk with APOGEE, Gaia and the EAGLE simulations Invited Plenary Talk, SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting 2018, Seoul, South Korea
• The origin of diverse α-element enrichment in galaxy discs Invited Seminar, Friday Lunch Astrophysics Talks, Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham, UK
• Constraints on the origin of the high-[α/Fe] disc with APOGEE-Gaia Contributed Talk, Gaia: The billion-star galaxy census: at the threshold of Gaia data release 2, EWASS 2018, Liverpool, UK
• Contextualising [α/Fe] bimodality in the EAGLE simulations Contributed Talk, Hello, goodbye: understanding the duality of the Milky Way, EWASS 2018, Liverpool, UK

PUBLICATIONS

as first author:

• Weighing the stellar constituents of the galactic halo with APOGEE red giant stars Mackereth, J. Ted; Bovy, Jo, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492, 3631 (arXiv: 1910.03590) cited: 19
• Dynamical heating across the Milky Way disc using APOGEE and Gaia Mackereth, J. Ted; Bovy, Jo; Leung, Henry W.; Schiavon, Ricardo P. et al. , 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489, 176 (arXiv: 1901.04502) cited: 49
• The origin of accreted stellar halo populations in the Milky Way using APOGEE, Gaia, and the EAGLE simulations Mackereth, J. Ted; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Pfeffer, Joel; Hayes, Christian R. et al. , 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482, 3426 (arXiv: 1808.00968) cited: 91
• Fast Estimation of Orbital Parameters in Milky Way-like Potentials Mackereth, J. Ted; Bovy, Jo, 2018, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 130, 114501 (arXiv: 1802.02592) cited: 17
• The origin of diverse α-element abundances in galaxy discs Mackereth, J. Ted; Crain, Robert A.; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schaye, Joop et al. , 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477, 5072 (arXiv: 1801.03593) cited: 39
• The age-metallicity structure of the Milky Way disc using APOGEE Mackereth, J. Ted; Bovy, Jo; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Zasowski, Gail et al. , 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471, 3057 (arXiv: 1706.00018) cited: 77

as co-author:

• Evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a major building block of the halo buried in the inner Galaxy Horta, Danny; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Mackereth, J. Ted et al. (incl. JTM) , 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500, 1385 (arXiv: 2007.10374) cited: 10
• The contribution of N-rich stars to the Galactic stellar halo using APOGEE red giants Horta, Danny; Mackereth, J. Ted; Schiavon, Ricardo P. et al. , 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, , (arXiv: 2008.01097) cited: 2
• Identifying resonances of the Galactic bar in Gaia DR2: I. Clues from action space Trick, Wilma H.; Fragkoudi, Francesca; Hunt, Jason A. S. et al. (incl. JTM) , 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500, 2645 (arXiv: 1906.04786) cited: 0
• Are the Milky Way and Andromeda unusual? A comparison with Milky Way and Andromeda analogues Boardman, N.; Zasowski, G.; Newman, J. A. et al. (incl. JTM) , 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498, 4943 (arXiv: 2009.02576) cited: 0
• The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra Ahumada, Romina; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Almeida, Andrés et al. (incl. JTM) , 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 249, 3 (arXiv: 1912.02905) cited: 124
• The chemical compositions of accreted and in situ galactic globular clusters according to SDSS/APOGEE Horta, Danny; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Mackereth, J. Ted et al. (incl. JTM) , 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493, 3363 (arXiv: 2001.03177) cited: 15
• Searching for solar siblings in APOGEE and Gaia DR2 with N-body simulations Webb, Jeremy J.; Price-Jones, Natalie; Bovy, Jo et al. (incl. JTM) , 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494, 2268 (arXiv: 1910.01646) cited: 5
• A galaxy's accretion history unveiled from its integrated spectrum Boecker, Alina; Leaman, Ryan; van de Ven, Glenn et al. (incl. JTM) , 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491, 823 (arXiv: 1903.11089) cited: 11
• Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi Chaplin, William J.; Serenelli, Aldo M.; Miglio, Andrea et al. (incl. JTM) , 2020, Nature Astronomy, 4, 382 (arXiv: 2001.04653) cited: 7
• Life in the fast lane: a direct view of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way's bar Bovy, Jo; Leung, Henry W.; Hunt, Jason A. S. et al. (incl. JTM) , 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490, 4740 (arXiv: 1905.11404) cited: 52
• Signatures of resonance and phase mixing in the Galactic disc Hunt, Jason A. S.; Bub, Mathew W.; Bovy, Jo et al. (incl. JTM) , 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490, 1026 (arXiv: 1904.10968) cited: 19
• He abundances in disc galaxies. I. Predictions from cosmological chemodynamical simulations Vincenzo, F.; Miglio, A.; Kobayashi, C. et al. (incl. JTM) , 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 630, (arXiv: 1905.08309) cited: 4
• The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA-derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools, and Stellar Library Aguado, D. S.; Ahumada, Romina; Almeida, Andrés et al. (incl. JTM) , 2019, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 240, 23 (arXiv: 1812.02759) cited: 153
• The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment Abolfathi, Bela; Aguado, D. S.; Aguilar, Gabriela et al. (incl. JTM) , 2018, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 235, 42 (arXiv: 1707.09322) cited: 614
• The 13th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory Albareti, Franco D.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Almeida, Andres et al. (incl. JTM) , 2017, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 233, 25 (arXiv: 1608.02013) cited: 391
• Chemical tagging with APOGEE: discovery of a large population of N-rich stars in the inner Galaxy Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Zamora, Olga; Carrera, Ricardo et al. (incl. JTM) , 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465, 501 (arXiv: 1606.05651) cited: 104

conference proceedings:

• The contribution of Globular Clusters to the stellar halo using APOGEE and GAIA Horta, Danny; Ted Mackereth, J.; Schiavon, Ricardo P. et al. , 2020, Star Clusters: From the Milky Way to the Early Universe, 351, 455 (arXiv: ) cited: 0
• The building blocks of the Milky Way halo using APOGEE and Gaia or Is the Galaxy a typical galaxy? Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Mackereth, J. Ted; Pfeffer, Joel et al. , 2020, Star Clusters: From the Milky Way to the Early Universe, 351, 170 (arXiv: 2002.08380) cited: 1
• The age-metallicity structure of the Milky Way disc with APOGEE Mackereth, J. Ted; Bovy, Jo; Schiavon, Ricardo P. et al. , 2018, Rediscovering Our Galaxy, 334, 265 (arXiv: 1708.05399) cited: 0