Keith Hawkins

Dr. Keith Hawkins is an Assistant 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. Dr. Hawkins completed several research internships around the world and taught middle school mathematics in the West African nation of Ghana during his undergraduate degree. After undergrad, 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. In 2016-2018 he was a Simons Junior Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University in New York City. In 2018, he joined the faculty at UT Austin and has just received a promotion with tenure. His research interests are in Galactic archaeology, with the goal of revealing the formation and evolution of our Galaxy through detailed chemical and dynamical studies of individual stars.

Dr. Keith Hawkins is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. in astrophysics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University as a Templeton and Goldwater Scholar in 2013. After undergrad, Dr. Hawkins completed a 2.5 year Ph.D. in Astronomy at the University of Cambridge as a British Marshall Scholar. In 2016-2018 he was a Simons Junior Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. In 2018, he joined the faculty at UT Austin and has just received a promotion with tenure.