Olivia McAuley

Olivia McAuley is a Ph.D. candidate at Bryn Mawr College. Broadly speaking, her research with Prof. Kate Daniel is on the dynamical processes involved in the dissolution and radial migration of a star cluster in a barred Milky Way-like galaxy. She is exploring a novel dynamical model that could explain how the chemically anomalous, massive star cluster NGC 6791 could have migrated to its current location and survived for 10 Gyr. McAuley received a B.S. in physics with a concentration in astrophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2019, she participated in the International School of Space Science where she learned about astrometry using data from the Gaia survey. She enjoys sharing her love of astronomy by being involved in outreach opportunities.