About
me...
My name
is Nathan De Lee, and I am currently an assistant
professor in the
Department of Physics and Geology at Northern Kentucky
University. I am also a adjunct professor in
the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at
Vanderbilt University.
I went to the University of Kansas for my
undergraduate work majoring in both Physics and
Astronomy. I worked with Bruce Twarog and
Barbara Anthony-Twarog on metal rich open
clusters. I went on to do my graduate work at
Michigan State University working with Horace
Smith and Timothy Beers. I worked on a
number of projects including RR Lyrae stars and
field horizontal branch stars. This work
culminated in my thesis: RR Lyrae in the
SDSS-II SN Survey. My first postdoctoral
position was at the University of Florida working
with Jian Ge on the MARVELS radial velocity
exoplanet survey. My second postdoctoral position
was at Vanderbilt University working with Keivan
Stassun on MARVELS, LSST, KELT, and TESS
surveys.
Major areas of research interest:
Projects I am
currently working on:
- Creating a catalog of Brown Dwarfs in the SDSS-III MARVELS and APOGEE surveys
- Creating a stellar input catalog for the TESS exoplanet mission
- Tracing the Thin and Thick Galactic Disk
with RR Lyrae from KELT
- Tracing the Galactic halo with RR Lyrae from
the SDSS-II SN Survey
- Photometric metallicity determinations of RR
Lyrae in SDSS g, r, and i
- Variable star search of the Fornax Dwarf
Galaxy
- Studying Oosterhoff types with NGC 6304
- Type II Cepheid Project
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