Observational Astronomer at the Carnegie Science Observatories, NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.

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Hi, I’m Madeleine McKenzie, a stellar spectroscopist interested in the fossils of the Universe.

I focus on high-precision spectroscopic observations of globular clusters, dwarf galaxies, and the Milky Way halo to understand how the Universe formed its first structures.

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Stellar spectroscopy workshop

In November 2025, Catherine Manea and I ran a stellar spectroscopy workshop at the Ohio State University. Material from the workshop is hosted on her website:

https://www.catherinemanea.com/stellar-spectroscopy-workshop

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This page is a work in progress. I am actively working on migrating over from my Github website (that I haven’t updated since 2023…)

mmckenzie [at] carnegiescience.edu

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