- Personal information
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Date of birth: April 23, 1970
Nationality: Norwegian
- Education
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1995-1999 Ph. D. at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
University, UK, supervised by Prof. Richard Ellis. Ph. D. awarded
December 1999. Thesis title: "The physical evolution of
galaxies".
1992-1994 M. Sc. (Astronomy) at the Institute of Theoretical
Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway, supervised by Prof. Per
Lilje. The thesis was entitled "The formation of high-redshift
virialized objects in general cosmologies".
1989-1992 B. Sc. at the University of Oslo.
- Employment
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January 2008 - present Assistant professor at Leiden
Observatory.
December 2004-December 2007 FCT postdoctoral fellow at the
Centro De Astrofísica Da Universi-dade Do Porto (CAUP).
December 2003-November 2004 ESA postdoctoral fellowship
holder at CAUP.
October 2001-November 2003 Post-doctoral researcher at the
Max-Planck-Institut für Astro-physik, Garching, Munich.
September 1999-September 2001 PPARC post-doctoral fellow at
Oxford University, UK.
Jan-April 1999 Computer manager at the Institute of
Astronomy, Cambridge, UK.
1995-1998 Ph. D. researcher employed by the Research Council
of Norway.
- Publications
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To see my publications on ADS, please follow
this link.
- Honours and Awards
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2003-2004 ESA postdoctoral fellowship.
1999-2001 PPARC post-doctoral fellowship.
1999-2001 Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College,
Oxford.
1998-1999 Isaac Newton Scholarship, Cambridge
University.
1995-1998 Overseas Research Student Award, Cambridge
University.
Summer 1989 Participant for Norway in the International
Chemistry Olympiad (awarded a bronze medal)
- Memberships
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- I am a member of the MUSE science team.
- I am a member of the Euclid consortium, acting as
co-coordinator for the legacy science working groups and co-chairing
the working group on galaxy and AGN evolution as well among
other things
- I am a member of the GASS consortium to study the HI content
of massive galaxies.
- I was a member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
- I was external collaborator in the VIMOS Very Deep Survey (VVDS) project.
- I have been a member of the Astronomy Working Group at ESA
(2008-2010)
- I was the Portuguese coordinator for the European ARENA project
- I was a member of the ESO Working Group 2 for Instrumentation for the European ELT.
- I was member of the science team for the MOBIE MOS proposed
spectrograph for the 30m TMT and on the science team for
OPTIMOS-Slit for E-ELT (these are both dormant projects).
- Professional experience and skills
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Teaching Experience
- I have devised and teaching a course on Databases & Data
mining at MSc level. The course has been taught at CAUP (as an
intensive course) and in Leiden as a semester course.
- I am teaching a MSc level course on galaxy formation in Leiden.
- I supervising a PhD student, Maryam Shirazi, at Leiden
University, starting date 03/2009.
- I have supervised 8 MSc students at Leiden University 2008-2011.
- I am currently co-supervising a PhD student, Paula Alexandra Brochado, at CAUP, due to graduate in 2012.
- I have supervised one MSc student at the University of Porto, Pedro Mondim. He graduated with 19/20 score with defense 04/12/2008.
- In Leiden I have also supervised one BSc research project
(half-year duration).
- I have also supervised one BIC and one BTI student at CAUP,
2004 &emdash; these are short term (1 year) scholarships to introduce,
typically undergraduate, students to astronomical research.
- I was tutorial teacher, introductory Astronomy course, Oxford
University, spring 2000 & 2001.
- Lecturer, "Graduate Training Course", Institute of Astronomy,
Cambridge University, au-tumn 1998, including writing up extensive
notes for the students.
- Arranged and held a course on the use of LATEX and related tools
at the Institute of Theoret-ical Astrophysics, University of Oslo
1993 and 1994. This included writing user manuals and "cookbooks"
for programs in use at the institute.
Computer skills
I am, or have been!, a proficient programmer in Fortran, Simula, C, IDL
and Perl and am familar with Python, Mathematica and C++. I have
adequate skills in HTML, CSS, XML, XSL and SQL.
Languages
Fluent in Norwegian (and thereby Swedish and Danish) and English,
speak and read decent Portuguese, I speak basic Dutch and read Dutch
and German well.
Administrative experience
- I have been the Portuguese co-ordinator for the pan-European
ARENA project.
- I have been the PI of a grant proposal for extra-galactic
astronomy at CAUP, awarded 35 kEUR for three years. This grant
included a total of 5 researchers and one PhD student. Grant ID:
PTDC/CTE-AST/66147/2006
- I have also been leader of the astronomical student organization
of the University of Oslo
- I was leader of the Cambridge branch of ANSA (Association of
Norwegian Students Abroad) 1997-1998.