Dr. Moe is a Research Associate at the Center of Astronomy & Planetary Physics at New York University Abu Dhabi and is a science communicator. He works on tracing back the formation history of the Milky Way Galaxy by hunting old halo stars using large sky surveys and taught numerous graduate and undergraduate Astronomy and Physics courses at different universities.

2. INTRODUCTION
Dr. Moe is a Research Associate at the Center of Astronomy & Planetary Physics at
New York University Abu Dhabi and is a science communicator. He got a Ph.D. in
Astronomy from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at Heidelberg University,
Germany, an M.S. in Astrophysics from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA,
and a BS in Physics from the American University of Beirut.
Dr. Moe works on tracing back the formation history of the Milky Way Galaxy by
hunting old halo stars using large sky surveys and taught numerous graduate and
undergraduate Astronomy and Physics courses at different universities.

3. RESEARCH AREAS
Dr. Moe Abbas works on the origins of Galactic Cannibalism by
tracing back the formation history of the Milky Way Galaxy.
He hunts old halo stars and use them as fossils with the aim of
reconstructing the origin of the Milky Way. In order to do so,
he uses data from large sky surveys located both on Earth and in
Space. He is mostly interested in topics like Galactic
Cannibalism, Galaxy Evolution, Stellar Evolution, The Milky Way,
Variable Stars, RR Lyrae Stars, and Globular Clusters.

4. ‘SPACED-OUT’ PODCAST
Dr. Moe hosts the ‘Spaced Out’ Podcast which is produced by CAP3
at NYUAD. The aim of Spaced Out is to promote scientific ideas,
ignite scientific curiosity in the general population, and share
the unfathomable beauty of astronomy and space science. Dr. Moe
discusses trending current events and various astronomical topics
with influential people in Astronomy and Space Science.
You can Listen to the Podcast here

5. MEDIA, TV & INTERVIEWS
Being an expert in the Astronomy field, Dr. Moe gets featured on
local and international TV channels, newspapers, radios, and
podcasts to discuss different scientific phenomena and to talk
about his experience in the field of space & astronomy.
Additionally, he was selected to participate in “The Astronauts”
TV Series in collaboration with the UAE Space agency and the
former commander of the International Space Station, Astronaut
Chris Hadfield. He also acted in the Netflix movie “Heaven
Without People”.

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