Scientific Staff at the Five Collaborating Institutes
University of Amsterdam Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek"
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The infrared group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The stellar and binary evolution group |
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The massive stars and stellar wind group, The stellar and binary evolution group |
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The radio pulsar group |
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The massive stars and stellar wind group |
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The massive stars and stellar wind group, The infrared group, The stellar and binary evolution group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The massive stars and stellar wind group; The infrared group. |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The infrared group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The gamma-ray burst group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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Post-Docs
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The stellar and binary evolution group |
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The stellar and binary evolution group |
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The radio pulsar group |
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The massive stars and stellar wind group |
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The gamma-ray burst group |
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X-ray, high energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The infrared group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
PhD Students
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The gamma-ray burst group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The gamma-ray burst group |
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The stellar and binary evolution group |
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The stellar and binary evolution group |
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The stellar and binary evolution group |
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The radio pulsar group |
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The radio pulsar group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The gamma-ray burst group |
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The massive stars and stellar wind group |
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The infrared group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The radio pulsar group |
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The gamma-ray burst group |
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The radio pulsar group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The gamma-ray burst group |
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The X-ray/High-energy group |
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The infrared group |
University of Groningen
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
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Interstellar medium, formation of massive stars. |
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Post-Docs
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Stellar Populations, interstellar medium, IMF, SFR |
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PhD Students
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Dynamics and kinematics of young galaxies |
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Chemical evolution of galaxies in the context of semi-analytic models. |
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Gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics |
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Gravitational lensing in the radio domain: from clusters to stars |
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The origin and evolution of dust in regions of star formation |
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Scalable analysis & visualization of high dimensional astronomy data sets. |
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Faint radiosources at milli-arcsecond reolution |
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HI in galaxies in different environments at redshifts 0.2. |
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Infrared dark clouds in a galactic context |
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Formation of spiral galaxies |
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The phase-space-signatures of the merging histories of galaxies |
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Photodissociation regions: using atomic hydrogen to trace molecular hydrogen in nearby galaxies |
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The initial mass function in active galaxie. |
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Foregrounds modelling for 21cm signaland their cosmological interpretation |
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Experimental verification and analysis of terahertz quasi-optical systems |
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Study on properties of HI warps and stellar disks in edge-on galaxies |
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Visualization and feature extraction of LOFAR data sets |
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Advanced receivers for submillimeter and far infrared astronomy |
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Measuring the 21cm Hydrogen signal from the EoR. |
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Formation of the first stars and mini-quasars in the Early Universe |
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The molecular medium in ultraluminous FIR galaxies. |
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The disk mass project: breaking the disk-halo degenracy. |
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Resolving M32\'s main sequence: a critical test for stellar population studies. |
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Gas and dust in regions of formation. |
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Diffuse radio emission from clusters of galaxies |
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Void hierarchy and the emergence of the cosmic web |
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Kinematic imaging of the HI cosmic web |
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Efficient data transport mechanisms for e-VLBI |
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University of Leiden
Leiden Observatory
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infrared spectroscopy, starburst galaxies and HII regions, infrared instrumentation |
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Gaia mission, photometric data processing, Formation and evolution of OB associations, Structure and formation of the Galactic halo |
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History of science |
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Astrochemistry, Star- and planet formation, Laboratory astrophysics |
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galaxy formation, high redshift universe, galaxy structure |
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Formation of Stars and Planets, Molecular Astrophysics, Radiative Transfer, (Sub)millimeter Interferometry, Comets |
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Astrophysics, cosmology, cosmic structure formation, radiation hydrodynamics, transport processes, science popularization |
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Molecular ISM, Galaxy Centers, Dwarf Galaxies & Magellanic Clouds, Star Formation |
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AGN accretion disks, Molecular gas in cooling flows, Nuclear structures in early galaxies, Infrared Interferometry |
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Galaxy clusters, Cosmology, Magnetoionic ISM component |
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Dark matter in galaxies and the universe, gravitational lensing,galaxy dynamics, wide-field imaging surveys |
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masers, circumstellar matter around young and old stars, radio and mm interferometry |
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Gas and stellar dynamics near supermassive black holes, especially in the Galactic Center |
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laboratory astrophysics / - chemistry |
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Fundamental Stellar Parameters, Stellar Photometry,Pulsating Variable Stars, Distance Scale, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Evolution |
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Nuclear activity in galaxies, active galactic nuclei as probes of the early universe, clusters and protoclusters, interferometry, LOFAR |
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Computational astrophysics group |
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Astronomical Instrumentation, Interferometry, Adaptive Optics, Extrasolar Planets |
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Galaxy formation, Large scale structure, AGN, optical/infrared and radio interferometers |
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galaxy formation, intergalactic medium, cosmology, star formation |
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Active galactic nuclei, radio stars, advanced radio telescopes |
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extra-solar planets, active galactic nuclei, LOFAR |
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Adaptive Optics, Instrumentation |
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starburst galaxies at low and high redshift, interstellar medium in galaxies, infrared techniques |
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Formation, structure and dynamics of galaxies, including the Galaxy |
Emeriti
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Post-Docs
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Star formation, planet formation and accretion disks |
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Atomistic modeling of interstellar ices |
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AMR hydrodynamical simulations. Impact of AGN heating on cooling flows. Simulated X-ray properties of galaxy clusters. AGN feedback |
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Photometric Redshifts Lyman-break Galaxies Wide-Field Iaging |
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Galactic astronomy, massive star formation, masers, UC HII regions, (sub)millimetre astronomy. |
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Collisional stellar dynamics -- massive black holes -- gravitational Waves -- The Galactic center -- Ultra-luminous X-ray sources -- Short gamma-ray bursts |
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Analytical modeling and analysis of AO systems |
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Data reduction software for the dual-beam interferometer PRIMA/VLTI. |
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Star formation, protoplanetary disks and planet formation, IR astronomy |
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Radio inteferometry, image processing. |
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galaxies, cosmology, X-ray astronomy |
PhD Students
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Planetary disks |
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Starburst galaxies, infrared spectroscopy |
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Laboratory Astrophysics, interstellar chemistry, spectroscopy |
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Formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks, low-mass star formation, radiation transfer, and stochastic optimization |
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Galaxy formation/evolution, star formation, star clusters. |
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Observational consequences of radiation hydrodynamics. |
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young stellar objects, protoplanetary disks |
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Stellar Dynamics near Massive Black-Holes, Galactic Centre. |
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Cosmologie: specifically on the properties of High-redshift galaxies protoclusters and large Structure Formation |
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Interstellar dust - especially in shocked regions, starburst galaxies, supernovae. |
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Laboratory astrophysics |
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Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, Epoch of Reionization, Radiative Transfer, Nonlinear Dynamics |
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University of Nijmegen
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University of Utrecht
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Astro-plasmaphysics |
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High-resolution telescopes |
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X-ray spectroscopy, Modeling of (high-resolution) X-ray spectra |
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Solar physics, Exoplanetary systems and solar system, Ground- and space-based astronomical telescopes and instruments |
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MHD spectroscopy, (parallel) CMFD simulations, computational MHD, transonic MHD, relativistic (M)HD computations, Numerical algorithms, Adaptive Mesh Refinement |
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Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis |
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star clusters and stellar populations in nearby galaxies |
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The evolution of stars in dense stellar systems |
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Solar Physics |
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high energy astrophysics |
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Emeriti
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Post-Docs
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Exoplanetary systems |
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PhD Students
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Massive stars in the early universe |
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Dynamics of solar magnetic fields |
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X-ray observations |
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Solar Magnetism |
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