Rate My Professor Timothy Beers

Beers' work in Space Science encompasses Galactic Archaeology, probing the chemical evolution of the Universe via metal-poor stars. He has spearheaded surveys including the HK survey (Beers et al. 1985, 1992), SEGUE/SEGUE-2—developing the metallicity pipeline—and LAMOST, identifying most stars with metallicities below 1/1000 solar. Discoveries feature r-process enhanced stars, CEMP stars (especially CEMP-no), and halo structures. He founded the R-Process Alliance (2016), co-leads JINA-CEE, and uses Gaia for stellar origins. With 550+ papers (h-index 124), key publications are “SEGUE-2: Old Milky Way Stars Near and Far” (Rockosi et al. 2022), “The R-Process Alliance: A Nearly Complete R-Process Abundance Template Derived from Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the R-Process-Enhanced Metal-Poor Star HD 222925” (Roederer et al. 2022), “Beyond Spectroscopy I: Metallicities... from SMSS DR2 and Gaia DR2” (Huang et al. 2022), and “A Blueprint for the Milky Way’s Stellar Populations III” (An & Beers 2021). His analyses cover 400,000+ stars. Awards: APS Fellow (2016), Purdue Distinguished Alumnus (2017), Leverhulme Trust Distinguished Visiting Professor (2019), Humboldt Award (2009), among others. Beers edited for Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics and chaired JINA-CEE Diversity Committee.