Gary Da Costa

Gary Da Costa

Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, Australian National University

My current position is that of Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University. Prior to joining the ANU in 1995 I held positions at the Anglo-Australian Observatory and at Yale University.

My research interests include the stellar populations of dwarf galaxies, the origin of abundance anomalies in globular cluster stars, the Magellanic Clouds, and the formation of the halo of the Milky Way. I am the convenor of the research group that is using photometry from the ANU SkyMapper telescope to search for extremely metal-poor stars in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy.