I’m an Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto working with Joshua Speagle and Gwen Eadie. Broadly, my research focuses on uncovering the formation mechanisms of unusual stellar populations. I use large data sets, in combination with spectroscopy and asteroseismology, to understand if chemically peculiar stars are a result of changes in a star’s environment, or rapid proceses in stellar evolution. During my Ph.D., I was a LSSTC Data Science Fellow and National Osterbrock Leadership Fellow, and received the Canadian Graduate Research Scholarship from NSERC. I received my bachelor’s from the University of British Columbia in Physics & Astronomy.

Research Interests

My Ph.D. thesis focused on investigating two populations of weird stars: lithium-rich red giants and solar-like stars without oscillations in Kepler. Read more about my research, or refer to my list of publications for recent papers. I’m the lead developer of The Swan, a data-driven technique to predict stellar surface gravities, and contributor of pySYD, an open-source Python package to measure global asteroseismic parameters.

Contact Me

Email: maryum.sayeed@columbia.edu