Dr. Monty works in the fields of Galactic Archaeology, Near-Field Cosmology and astronomical Instrumentation. Her research focuses on using globular clusters as chrono-chemo-dynamical tracers of galaxy assembly and evolution. Her main focus is on reconstructing the history of the Milky Way using its population of globular clusters, augmented by studies of chemically peculiar metal-poor stars in the stellar halo. To do this, she couples chemical abundances to orbits and isochronal ages, combining data from high resolution spectrographs with precision ground- and space-based astrometric and photometric data. She has also worked to characterise optical fibre performance for next-generation instrumentation and developed realistic end-to-end scientific simulation tools for upcoming adaptive optics instruments. Dr. Monty is a founding member of the ChemZz collaboration working to place the Milky Way in context with galaxies at Cosmic Noon and a member of SDSS, the 4MOST consortium and the MAVIS instrument consortium.

She will be sharing her first year at NMSU with Northwestern University through a joint appointment as a CIERA independent research fellow.

She is currently recruiting PhD students to start in 2026.