Emily Hunt
Astronomy postdoc, data & software enthusiast
Postdoc at University of Vienna
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Career: 4
Postdoc
University of Vienna
Full-time · Vienna, Vienna, AT
Sep 2025 - Present
Postdoc
University of Vienna
Full-time · Vienna, Vienna, AT
Working on projects relating to the next Gaia data release and relating to open science on the AT Protocol. In addition, I have more senior responsibilities, including teaching and supervising students.
Postdoc
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Full-time · Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, DE
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
Postdoc
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Full-time · Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, DE
I worked on measuring the selection function of my catalogue, producing the first ever probabilistic selection function of a star cluster catalogue, allowing it to be used in sophisticated modelling workflows in the future.
Postdoc
Heidelberg University
Full-time · Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, DE
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Postdoc
Heidelberg University
Full-time · Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, DE
I worked on a further update to the catalogue of clusters from my PhD, creating the largest ever catalogue of cluster masses and using it to better classify the star clusters in my catalogue.
PhD Researcher
Heidelberg University
Full-time · Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, DE
Sep 2019 - Jul 2023
PhD Researcher
Heidelberg University
Full-time · Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, DE
Created a new way to construct a catalog of star clusters with machine learning. I created a catalog of over 7000 star clusters from around 1 billion stars in Gaia DR3, which has been cited over 300 times in the first three years since its publication.
Education: 2
Heidelberg University, Germany
PhD, Natural Sciences (Astronomy)
Sep 2019 - Jul 2023
Heidelberg University, Germany
PhD, Natural Sciences (Astronomy)
University of Bath, United Kingdom
MPhys, Physics with Astronomy
Sep 2015 - Jun 2019
University of Bath, United Kingdom
MPhys, Physics with Astronomy
Projects: 1
The Astrosky Ecosystem
astrosky.eco
Jul 2023 - Present
The Astrosky Ecosystem
astrosky.eco
Building atproto integrations for the astronomy community.
Publications: 19
The selection function of the Gaia DR3 open cluster census
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleEmily L. Hunt, Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Friedrich Anders, Sagar Malhotra, Lorenzo Spina, Alfred Castro-Ginard, Lorenzo Cavallo
The Astrosky Ecosystem: An independent online platform for science communication and social networking
arXiv e-prints
Working PaperHunt, Emily L., Carpenter, Vincent S., Cook, Kyle W.
The secret lives of open clusters: A multiwavelength examination of three open clusters
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Journal ArticleDage, Kristen, Hunt, Emily, Anderson-Baldwin, Jasmine
How many stars form in compact clusters in the local Milky Way?
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleAlexis L. Quintana, Emily L. Hunt, Hanna Parul
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleRichard I. Anderson, Emily L. Hunt
The completeness of the open cluster census towards the Galactic anticentre
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleEmily L. Hunt, Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Friedrich Anders, Lorenzo Spina, Lorenzo Cavallo, Alfred Castro-Ginard, Vasily Belokurov, Anthony G. A. Brown, Andrew R. Casey, Ronald Drimmel, Morgan Fouesneau, Sabine Reffert
Toward the fabric of the Milky Way
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleSebastian Ratzenböck, João Alves, Emily L. Hunt, Núria Miret-Roig, Stefan Meingast, Torsten Möller
Non-radial oscillations mimicking a brown dwarf orbiting the cluster giant NGC 4349 No. 127
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleDane Spaeth, Sabine Reffert, Emily L. Hunt, Adrian Kaminski, Andreas Quirrenbach
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Nearby young star clusters (Swiggum+, 2024)
Cameren Swiggum, Joao Alves, Sebastian Ratzenböck, Núria Miret Roig, Stefan Meingast, Emily Lauren Hunt
The golden age of star cluster science: the incredible new discoveries from Gaia and the challenges that remain
EAS2024
Conference PaperHunt, Emily
Unravelling the puzzles of the Milky Way's star clusters with their masses, radii, and dynamics
EAS2024
Conference PaperHunt, Emily, Reffert, Sabine
Mapping the Milky Way with incomplete data: what is the selection function of the cluster census?
EAS2024
Conference PaperCantat-gaudin, Tristan, Hunt, Emily, Castro-Ginard, Alfred, Anders, Friedrich, Spina, Lorenzo, Cavallo, Lorenzo
Most nearby young star clusters formed in three massive complexes
Nature
Journal ArticleSwiggum, Cameren, Alves, João, Benjamin, Robert, Ratzenböck, Sebastian, Miret-Roig, Núria, Großschedl, Josefa, Meingast, Stefan, Goodman, Alyssa, Konietzka, Ralf, Zucker, Catherine, Hunt, Emily L., Reffert, Sabine
Uncovering three past massive star-forming complexes that shaped local interstellar structures
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts
Conference AbstractSwiggum, Cameren, Alves, João, Benjamin, Robert, Ratzenböck, Sebastian, Miret-Roig, Núria, Großchedl, Josefa, Meingast, Stefan, Goodman, Alyssa, Konietzka, Ralf, Zucker, Catherine, Hunt, Emily, Reffert, Sabine
Improving the open cluster census
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleEmily L. Hunt, Sabine Reffert
Improving the open cluster census
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleEmily L. Hunt, Sabine Reffert
Improving the census of open clusters in the Milky Way with data from Gaia
Heidelberg University Library
PublicationEmily Lauren Hunt
A more complete and accurate open cluster census with Gaia EDR3
Improving the open cluster census
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal ArticleEmily L. Hunt, Sabine Reffert