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D. Carollo is a key figure in Galactic Archaeology, a field dedicated to unraveling the formation and evolution of the Milky Way by reading the chemical and kinematic histories of its stars. Carollo’s primary contributions center on the development and commissioning of the High Efficiency and Resolution Multi-Element Spectrograph (HERMES) at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). As a lead instrumentalist, Carollo was instrumental in bringing HERMES from design to first light, enabling the massive GALAH (Galactic Archaeology with HERMES) survey. This facility-class spectrograph allows astronomers to measure the chemical compositions of tens of thousands of stars simultaneously, providing the foundational data for reconstructing the Milky Way’s assembly history. Carollo’s most-cited work, detailing HERMES’s first light results (93 citations), demonstrates the instrument’s transformative impact on stellar astrophysics. By integrating this complex spectrograph and delivering its first scientific observations, Carollo has directly empowered the community to probe the origins of galactic structure, chemical enrichment, and the merger events that shaped our home galaxy.