I am an associate research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University department of physics and astronomy. I predominantly work on Galactic archaeology and interstellar dust: For the former, emphasis is on old and resolved stellar populations such as those of Galactic globular clusters, and for the latter, emphasis is on the wavelength-dependence of the extinction curve. I also work on projects involving the extragalactic distance scale, variable stars, and exoplanet campaigns such as that of the microlensing program of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

I have previously been a research fellow at The Australian National University. I completed my PhD at the The Ohio State University in August 2012 with Andrew Gould on “The Galactic Bulge Stellar Population.”

Contact

Department of Physics & Astronomy,  Johns Hopkins University

Office 519, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy

Email:  dnataf1 -at- jhu dot edu, david dot nataf -at- gmail dot com

Tel: (+1) four, four, three-410-1866