cv & publications

CV summary

Education and employment

• Since Oct. 2022: Herchel Smith Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK and non-stipendiary Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge

• 2020 - 2022: postdoc at the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France

• 2016 - 2020: PhD at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany

• 2011 - 2016: Bachelor and Master at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands

My full CV can be downloaded here. 

Publications

First-author publications:

• Predicting metallicities and carbon abundances from Gaia XP spectra for (carbon-enhanced) metal-poor stars (link) - Ardern-Arentsen, A., Kane, S. G., Belokurov, V., Matsuno, T., Montelius, M., Monty, S., & Sanders, J. L., MNRAS, 2025

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) VIII: Characterising the orbital properties of the ancient, very metal-poor inner Milky Way (link) - Ardern-Arentsen, A., Monari, G., Queiroz, A. B. A., Starkenburg, E., Martin, N. F., Chiappini, C., Aguado, D. S., Belokurov, V., Carlberg, R., Monty, S., Myeong, G., Schultheis, M., Sestito, F., Venn, K. A., Vitali, S., Yuan, Z., Zhang, H., Buder, S., Lewis, G. F., Oliver, W. H., Wan, Z., & Zucker, D. B., MNRAS, 2024

• The Pristine survey - XX: GTC follow-up observations of extremely metal-poor stars identified from Pristine and LAMOST (link) - Arentsen, A., Aguado, D. S., Sestito, F., Hernández, J. I. G., Martin, N. F., Starkenburg, E., Jablonka, P., & Yuan, Z., MNRAS, 2023

• On the inconsistency of [C/Fe] abundances and the fractions of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars among various stellar surveys (link) - Arentsen, A., Placco, V. M., Lee, Y. S., Aguado, D. S., Martin, N. F., Starkenburg, E., & Yoon, J., MNRAS, 2022

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) III: carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in the bulge (link) - Arentsen, A., Starkenburg, E., Aguado, D. S., Martin, N. F., Placco, V. M., Carlberg, R., González Hernández, J. I., Hill, V., Jablonka, P., Kordopatis, G., Lardo, C., Mashonkina, L. I., Navarro, J. F., Venn, K. A., Buder, S., Lewis, G. F., Wan, Z., Zucker, D. B., MNRAS, 2021

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) II: Uncovering the most metal-poor populations in the inner Milky Way (link) - Arentsen, A., Starkenburg, E., Martin, N. F., Aguado, D. S., Zucker, D. B., Allende Prieto, C., Hill, V.; Venn, K. A.,Carlberg, R. G., González Hernández, J. I., Mashonkina, L. I., Navarro, J. F., Sánchez-Janssen, R., Schultheis, M., Thomas, G. F., Youakim, K., Lewis, G. F., Simpson, J. D., Wan, Z., Cohen, R. E., Geisler, D., O'Connell, J. E., MNRAS, 2020

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) I: Tracing the kinematics of metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge (link) - Arentsen, A., Starkenburg, E., Martin, N. F., Hill, V., Ibata, R., Kunder, A., Schultheis, M., Venn, K. A., Zucker, D. B., Aguado, D., Carlberg, R., González Hernández, J. I., Lardo, C., Longeard, N., Malhan, K., Navarro, J. F., Sánchez-Janssen, R., Sestito, F., Thomas, G., Youakim, K., Lewis, G. F., Simpson, J. D., Wan, Z., MNRAS, 2020

• Stellar atmospheric parameters for 754 spectra from the X-shooter Spectral Library (link) - Arentsen, A., Prugniel, P., Gonneau, A., Lançon, A., Trager, S. C., Peletier, R., Lyubenova, M., Chen, Y.-P., Falcón Barroso, J., Sánchez Blázquez, P., Vazdekis, A., A&A, 2019

• Binarity among CEMP-no stars: an indication of multiple formation pathways? (link) - Arentsen, A., Starkenburg, E., Shetrone, M. D., Venn, K. A., Depagne, É., McConnachie, A. W., A&A, 2019

Second-author publications:

• On the existence of a very metal-poor disc in the Milky Way (link) - Zhang, H., Ardern-Arentsen, A., & Belokurov, V., MNRAS, 2024 

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) IV: A photometric metallicity analysis of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (link) - Vitali, S., Arentsen, A., Starkenburg, E., Jofré, P., Martin, N. F., Aguado, D. S., Carlberg, R., González Hernández, J. I., Ibata, R., Kordopatis, G., Malhan, K., Ramos, P., Sestito, F., Yuan, Z., Buder, S., Lewis, G. F., Wan, Z., & Zucker, D. B., MNRAS, 2022

Co-author publications: see ADS

PhD thesis: link