David M. Nataf

David M. Nataf serves as an associate research scientist within the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, where he conducts astrophysics research. Previously, he held a research fellowship at The Australian National University.

He earned his PhD in August 2012 from The Ohio State University under Andrew Gould, with a dissertation titled "The Galactic Bulge Stellar Population".

His primary research focuses on Galactic archaeology, emphasizing old resolved stellar populations in Galactic globular clusters, and interstellar dust, specifically the wavelength-dependence of extinction curves. Additional work spans the extragalactic distance scale, variable stars, and exoplanet campaigns, including microlensing programs for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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