Hello world! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Yale University and the Institute for the Foundations for Data Science. I am a developer of the MESA stellar evolution code and a scientist working on the forthcoming PLATO mission, and I lead the Yale AstroML (YAML) Group. My research broadly revolves around various kinds of pulsating stars, which are fascinating because they are key to many interesting astrophysical endeavours, such as testing our understanding of fundamental physics, finding the properties of exoplanets, uncovering the history of our Milky Way galaxy, and measuring the size and age of the Universe. My research has been highlighted in Science magazine, Nature Astronomy, Discover, New Scientist, Universe Today, AAS Nova, and PBS Spacetime, among others.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany and at the Stellar Astrophysics Centre in Denmark. I carried out my Ph.D. research at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and at Yale. I have also worked at several other national and international laboratories, including NASA, NIST, and NII. I was a Presidential Scholar at SUNY Oswego and an NPSC Graduate Fellow at Indiana University and Yale University.
I have enjoyed teaching and supervising students both nationally and internationally from the high school level up through the graduate level. In my free time, I like playing the guitar, bass, drums, and other instruments, as well as composing and recording music.
Assistant Professor (2024 —)
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Main research interests: asteroseismology, stellar ages, stellar evolution, machine learning, artificial intelligence, inverse problems, dark matter, modified gravity, binary and multiple star systems, galactic archaeology, near-field cosmology, exoplanets, black holes, Hawking stars, fundamental physics
MPA Fellowship (2021 — 2023; 5 year fellowship)
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Garching, Munich, Germany
SAC Fellowship (2018 — 2021)
Stellar Astrophysics Centre
Aarhus University, Denmark
• Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
• Department of Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
• Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Germany
Fellow of the National Physical Science Consortium
Thesis Topic: Inverse
Problems in Asteroseismology
School of Informatics and Computing (Minor in Bioinformatics)
Fellow of the National Physical Science Consortium
GPA: 3.94/4.0
Honors Thesis: Multiphase Relations of Magellanic Cloud Cepheids
GPA: 3.81/4.0 (summa cum laude, ranked #1 in computer science)
UNSW Sydney (2019 — 2020)
Visiting Fellow, Sydney, Australia
KU Leuven (3 years; deferred)
FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, KU Leuven, Belgium
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (2015 — 2018)
Research Assistant, Stellar Ages & Galactic Evolution Group, Göttingen, Germany
Yale University (2016 — 2017)
Visiting Assistant in Research, New Haven, CT, USA
Indiana University Bloomington (2013 — 2015)
Research Assistant, Bloomington, IN, USA
[NIST] National Institute of Standards and Technology (Summers 2013, 2014)
Guest Researcher, Information Technology Laboratory, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
[NII] National Institute of Informatics (Spring 2013)
Research Student, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
[NASA] National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Summer 2012)
Summer Research Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA
Federal University of Alagoas (Summer 2011)
IRES/NSF Research Student, Maceió, Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina (Summer 2010)
IRES/NSF Research Student, Florianópolis, Brazil
Yale University (2024 —)
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
ASTR 330 — Scientific Computing (Spring 2024, 2025)
ASTR 356 — Astrostatistics & Data Mining (Fall 2024)
Guest lectures: ASTR 255, PHYS 040, MUSI032
Aarhus University (2018 — 2021)
Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Advanced Stellar Structure and Evolution (Fall 2018, Fall 2020)
Advanced Projects in Stellar Evolution (Spring 2021)
Advanced Projects in Stellar Astrophysics (Spring 2019, Spring 2020)
Yale University (Spring 2017)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy
ASTR 550 — Stellar Astrophysics
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Summer 2016)
Assistant, Institut für Astrophysik
M.Phy.552 — Numerical Experiments in Stellar Physics
Indiana University Bloomington (Fall 2012)
Associate Instructor, School of Informatics and Computing
CSCI-C211/A591 — Introduction to Computer Science
Ranked in the top 5% of instructors [teaching
evaluation]
SUNY Oswego (Fall 2010)
Seminar Leader, Honors Program
HON 150 — Introduction to Honors
Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics (2023)
Senior Participant, Lecturer & Project Supervisor [link]
MESA Summer School (2023)
Organizer & SOC Chair [link]
MESA Summer School (2022)
Organizer & Lecturer [link / slides]
Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics (2021)
Senior Participant & Project Supervisor [link]
Here is a list of students and postdocs I have supervised or co-supervised on projects or theses. In parentheses says where they are now!
(★denotes that I was the main supervisor on the project or thesis)
Google Scholar |
ADS |
orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-4863
number of publications = 64 |
first author = 21 |
number of citations = 1209 |
h-index = 18
Erdős number = 4 (via Steven Reyner, Bennet Manvel & Bela Bollobas)
★IAIFI Summer Workshop
Cambridge, MA • August 2024
Asteroseismic Probes of Far-Ranging Physics with Big Data & Machine Learning [slides] [video]
11th Applied Inverse Problems Conference
Göttingen, Germany • September 2023
Progress in Asteroseismology: Where We Stand and Where We'll Go
MIAPbP: Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Gaia, Spectroscopic, and Asteroseismic Surveys
Garching, Germany • August 2023
Black holes and asteroseismology
Black Hole & Gravitational Wave Day
Garching, Germany • May 2023
Asteroseismic Constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) Collaboration Meeting
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany • May 2023
Massive Star Asteroseismology with TESS and PLATO
★TESS/Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium TASC6/KASC13
Leuven, Belgium • July 2022
MESA & GYRE: Stellar models for asteroseismology [code/recording]
European Astronomical Society 2022
Valencia, Spain • July 2022
Asteroseismic insights into solar evolution
Fundamental stellar parameters from asteroseismology in the era of Gaia
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark • June 2022
An asteroseismic expedition for the missing physics in stellar evolution
Stars in Melbourne
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia • December 2019
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics? [slides]
★Dynamics of the Sun & Stars: Honoring the Life & Work of Michael Thompson
High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colorado • October 2019
Inverse analysis of asteroseismic data: a review [slides] [video]
★TESS/Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium TASC5/KASC12
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts • July 2019
Experimental tests of stellar pulsation and evolution with TESS and SONG [slides]
Annual Danish Astronomy Meeting (ADAM) 2019
Nyborg, Denmark • May 2019
Seismic evidence against the standard picture of stellar evolution [slides]
TESS/Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium TASC4/KASC11: First Light in a new Era of
Astrophysics
Aarhus, Denmark • July 2018
Testing stellar physics with asteroseismic inversions for the core structures of solar-type stars [slides]
ERES-III: Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science
New Haven, CT, USA • June 2017
Fundamental Parameters of Exoplanet Host Stars with Asteroseismology
RR Lyrae 2015
Visegrád, Hungary • October 2015
Resolving combination frequency amplitudes of multi-mode pulsators
American Astronomical Society
Seattle, WA, USA • January 2015
Optimal Model Discovery of Periodic Variable Stars
National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Weber State University, Ogden, UT, USA • March 2012
Multiphase Relations of Cepheid Variable Stars in the Magellanic Clouds
★Flatiron Sun-as-a-star Workshop
Flatiron Institute • March 2023
Searching for long-period oscillations in stacked solar spectrographs
★MPA-Potsdam Workshop on Hot Subdwarfs
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics • October 2021
Asteroseismic inference of internal stellar structure in solar-like oscillators
★PLATO WP122 Liège Workshop #4
Liège, Belgium • May 2021
Consistency checks and selection for the PLATO mission
★TESS Ninja 3
University of Sydney, Australia • February 2020
A novelty and anomaly detector
★6th Aarhus Workshop on Red Giant Branch Modelling
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany • May 2016
Stellar Parameters in an Instant with Machine Learning
★Delhi Workshop on Variable Stars
University of Delhi, India • January 2015
Calibrating the Cepheid Distance Scale
★Kerala Workshop on Stellar Astrophysics
St. Thomas College, Kerala, India • January 2014
Automated Supervised Classification of Variable Stars
★University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Colloquium
Champaign, IL • October 2024
Asteroseismic probes of far-ranging physics with big data & machine learning
★Illinois State University Seminar
Champaign, IL • October 2024
Asteroseismic probes of far-ranging physics with big data & machine learning
★Yale Foundations of Data Science Institute Seminar
New Haven, CT • June 2024 2024
Asteroseismic probes of far-ranging physics with big data & machine learning [video]
★Harvard ITC Lunch Talk
Boston, MA • February 2024
The Search for Hawking Stars
★Harvard ITC Colloquium
Boston, MA • February 2024
What can asteroseismology do for astrophysics?
★HITS Seminar
Heidelberg, Germany • October 2023
Black holes and asteroseismology
★CAS Seminar
Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences • May 2022
Asteroseismic probes of stellar evolution and fundamental physics
★MPA Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics • December 2021
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?
★Leuven Institute for Astronomy Seminar
KU Leuven, Belgium • October 2021
Asteroseismic probes of stellar evolution and fundamental physics
★SESTAS Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics • October 2021
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?
★University of Victoria ARC Star Talk [recording]
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • April 2021
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?
★Macquarie Seminar [slides]
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia • February 2020
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?
★Monash Seminar
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia • January 2020
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?
★Sydney Seminar
University of Sydney, Australia • October 2019
What Can Asteroseismology Do for Astrophysics?
★SAC Seminar
Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark • January 2018
Determining Stellar Structure with Asteroseismology Using Novel Techniques
★Madison Seminar
Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin–Madison • November 2017
From Starlight to Stellar Ages with Asteroseismology
★IMPRS Solar System School Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany • July 2017
The Seismic Structures of Solar-Type Stars: Surmising the Speeds of Sound Inside 16 Cygni
★Yale Professional Seminar
Department of Astronomy, Yale University • February 2017
Celestial Chronometry: From Starlight to Stellar Ages
★IMPRS Solar System School Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany • January 2016
Forward and Inverse Problems in Asteroseismology
★KUBIC-NII Joint Seminar on Bioinformatics
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan • April 2013
Asynchronous Updating in 1D Cellular Automata with Stochastic Perturbations
★MPS Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany • February 2015
Resolving combination mode frequencies of multi-mode pulsators
★Solar Eclipse
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • April 2024
Could there be a black hole inside the Sun?
★Science Today
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • October 2016
From Starlight to Stellar Ages: A Look Inside the Private Lives of Stars
Quest: Global Laboratory
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • April 2012
Dynamics of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Systems
Quest: Neural Networks
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • April 2012
Synapsolution: Producing Prodigies of Problem Solving
Cool Stars 20
Boston University, Massachusetts, USA • July 2018
Model-independent measurements of internal stellar structure in solar-type stars with asteroseismology: a new
test-bed for stellar physics
TASC3/KASC10 Workshop
University of Birmingham, England • July 2017
The Seismic Structures of Solar-Type Stars: Surmising the Speed of Sound Inside 16 Cyg A
Joint TASC2 & KASC9 Workshop – SPACEINN & HELAS8 Conference
Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira-Açores, Portugal • July 2016
Fundamental Parameters of Main-Sequence Stars in an Instant with Machine Learning
20th Stellar Pulsation Conference
Granada, Spain • September 2011
New insights into the Cepheid PL Relation through the use of multiphase relations
Sigma Xi Northeastern Research Symposium
Stony Brook University, New York, USA • April 2011
Multiphase Comparison of PL and PW Relations for Magellanic Cloud Cepheids
American Astronomical Society
Seattle, WA, USA • January 2011
Multiphase Comparison of PL/PC Relations
Delta Eri - the first SONG-TESS simultaneous target (P.I.)
SONG telescope • 2018 • 50 nights
Simultaneous observations of oscillations in Procyon with SONG and TESS
SONG telescope • 2018 • 30 nights
MESA Summer School on Stellar Evolution
U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA • 2016
Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences
Horta, Faial, Azores Islands, Portugal • 2016
St. Baldrick's Foundation
SUNY Oswego, NY, USA • 2010, 2011
Helped raise over $50,000 for research to find cures for childhood cancers.
Easy Street Horse & Barnyard Rescue
Amsterdam, NY, USA • 2006 — 2010
Provided care for horses with this IRS approved 501(c)(3) family-run charitable organization.
MegaGauß
Göttingen, Germany • 2015 — 2018
Electric bass, electric guitar, ukulele, bass ukulele, vocals, percussion
Tyler Hall Records
Oswego, NY, USA • 2012
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship • 2021 — 2026
FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship • 2023 — 2026 (deferred)
Stellar Astrophysics Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship • 2018 — 2021
National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowship • 2012 — 2017
SUNY Oswego Presidential Scholarship • 2008 — 2012
NVIDIA GPU Grant • 2018
SUNY Oswego Student/Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grant • 2012
National Science Foundation International Research Experience for Undergraduates / SUNY Oswego Global Laboratory Scholarship • 2010, 2011 (awarded twice)
National SMART Grant • 2010, 2011 (awarded twice)
National Academic Competitiveness Grant • 2008, 2009 (awarded twice)
Robert Brian Ellis Scholarship • 2011
New York State Federation of Home Bureau Scholarship • 2011
Oebele Van Dyk Outstanding Computer Science Senior Award • 2012
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence • 2012
Nyberg: Yale astronomy professor on how stars make music
October 2024
Video: WTNH News 8
Office Hours with… Earl Bellinger
September 2024
Publication: Yale News
Stupendously Large Black Hole Coalescence and Hubble Tensions
April 2024
Publication: arXiv
Solar evolution models with a central black hole
December 2023
Publication: The Astrophysical Journal
Press Release: English (Max Planck for Astrophysics), English (Max Planck Society), German (Max Planck Society)
Asteroseismic Constraints on the Cosmic-time Variation of the Gravitational Constant from an Ancient
Main-sequence Star
May 2021
Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Cosmic Archaeology from an Ancient Pulsating Star
September 2019
Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Ripples of an ancient star helped limit the change in the gravitational constant
September 2019
Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Researchers measure the interior of two stars, find our models weren't quite right
January 2018
Publication: The Astrophysical
Journal
Press release: English,
German (Max Planck Society)
Scientists measure ages of planet-hosting stars using artificial intelligence
October 2016
Publication: The Astrophysical
Journal
Press release: English, German (Max Planck Institute for Solar System
Research)