T. Zwitter
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Tomaž Zwitter is a leading figure in Galactic archaeology, using stellar spectroscopy to unravel the formation and evolutionary history of the Milky Way. His major contributions center on the design and scientific exploitation of the High Efficiency and Resolution Multi-Element Spectrograph (HERMES), a facility-class instrument at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. As a key architect of this project, Zwitter enabled the first major systematic attempt to chemically tag millions of stars, transforming our understanding of how galaxies assemble. His foundational paper on HERMES’s first light results (2015, 93 citations) details the instrument’s unique ability to simultaneously observe hundreds of stars at high resolution, providing the precise chemical abundances and radial velocities essential for mapping stellar populations. Beyond instrumentation, his work has shaped the GALAH survey, producing large-scale catalogues that link stellar chemistry to Galactic dynamics. With a career spanning observational astronomy and data-driven discovery, Zwitter’s research has provided critical empirical constraints for models of galaxy formation, cementing his role as a pioneer in the field of Galactic archaeology.
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