Visiting:
Formal:
To be found on seperate pages:
- List of Publications
- Conferences, Symposia and Schools Attended
- Observing Runs and Archive Data (restricted)
- PEP02 / PEP03 / PEP04 (restricted)
Main CV
- Born on December 23, 1966 in Naarden, the Netherlands
- Male, Dutch & Hungarian, drawn out of military service
- Dutch, English, German, Swedish, French (decreasing proficiency)
- Galactic center, OH/IR & AGB stars, masers, M31*, OD
- Radio astronomy, spectral line, interferometry & VLBI
- Web/co-editor of the Galactic Center newsletter & newsflashes
- Main organizer of the X-ray and Radio Connections meeting
- UNIX (several flavours), Pascal, Fortran, C, csh, Perl
- AIPS: astronomical image processing system, FVWM, KDE
- SCUBA Diving, photography, swimming, Minnie Yuan Mao
- Other certificates for: CPR, Fire Control, Programming, AYSO, and more
Education
| Period | Level | School, Institute and Thesis work | Date | Supervision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973/08-1979/07 | Basic | Koningin Emmaschool, Bussum, the Netherlands | ||
| 1979/08-1985/06 | V.W.O. | Goois Lyceum, Bussum, the Netherlands | 1985/05/29 | |
| 1985/09-1987/08 | Propedeuse, Astronomy | Leiden State University, Leiden, the Netherlands | 1987/08/26 | |
| 1987/09-1991/08 | M.Sc., Astronomy | Leiden State University, Leiden, the Netherlands | ||
| thesis: | "Speurtocht naar Kop-staart stelsels in Clusters" | 1991/08/27 | Dr. P. Katgert | |
| 1992/07-1994/06 | Ph.D., Astronomy | Leiden State University, Leiden, the Netherlands | Prof.Dr. H.J. Habing | |
| 1994/10-1997/10 | Ph.D., Radio and Space Science | Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden | ||
| thesis: | "The OH/IR star population in the Galactic center" | 1997/10/14 | Bitr.Prof.Dr. A. Winnberg |
Employers and provisions
| Period | Title | Formal Employer | Money source | Acknowledgement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966/12-1973/07 | Uneducated | - | My Parents | |
| 1973/08-1985/07 | Scholar | - | My Parents | Koningin Emma School, Goois Lyceum |
| 1985/08-1987/12 | Student | - | My Parents | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (RUL) |
| 1988/01-1991/08 | Student | Minister of Science and Education | Hardheidsclausule | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Sterrewacht Leiden |
| 1991/09-1992/04 | Unemployed | Minister of Social Affairs | RWW | |
| 1992/04-1992/06 | Staff | Noordwijk Space Expo | Afd. Educatie | European Space Agency (ESA) |
| 1992/07-1994/06 | Graduate | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden | TWAIO | Sterrewacht Leiden |
| 1994/07-1994/09 | Unemployed | Minister of Science and Education | DUO | |
| 1994/10-1995/06 | Graduate | Svenska Institutet | Stipend | Swedish Insitute, also Chalmers TH & OSO |
| 1995/07-1997/10 | Graduate | Chalmers University of Technology | Doctorand | Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) |
| 1997/09-2001/10 | PostDoc | Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe | NWO | ASTRON, European Commission contracts ERBFGECT 950012 & HPRI-CT-1999-00045 |
| 2001/11- | Staff | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | AUI | VLBA, Scientific Services (NRAO) |
| Period | Name | School/Institute | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001/06/02 2001/08/25 | Suzanne Fodor | Whittier College, Los Angeles CA | Extragalactic background calibrators around M31* |
| 2002/05/29 2002/08/20 | Eileen Chollet | Rice University, Houston TX | 43 GHz SiO masers in late-type stars in the Galactic Center |
| 2004/06/01 2004/08/12 | Kelley Hess | Cornell University, Ithaca NY | Radio sources in the Andromeda galaxy |
| 2005/06/03 2005/08/12 | Emily Levesque | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA | Search for interstellar OD (co-supervised with Dr. Vincent Fish, NRAO) |
| 2006/05/12 2006/08/04 | Robert (Bobby) Edmonds | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM | Monitoring Galactic Center 43 GHz SiO masers |
| 2008/06/02 2008/08/19 | Stephanie Capen | Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy MA | Infrared colors of evolved stars as a tracer of maser emission (co-supervised with Dr. Mark Claussen, NRAO) |
| 2010/06/01 2010/08/13 | Kristen Koopman | Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY | Near- and Mid-Infrared Color Schemes for Circumstellar Envelopes (co-supervised with Dr. Mark Claussen, NRAO) |
| 2010/06/07 2010/08/13 | Claire Murray | Carleton College, Northfield MN | Methanol Masers in Andromeda |
| 2012/05/26 2012/08/11 | Amanda Walker-LaFolette | University of Arizona, Tucson AZ | 44 GHz Methanol Masers in the Galactic center |
| 2012/11/12 2013/02/01 | Yang Yang | Nanjing Univeristy, PR China | The Nuclear Black Holes in Andromeda (M31*) and M32 |
| 2014/06/09 2014/08/17 | Yuwei Wang | Nanjing Univeristy, PR China | Intermediate Mass Black Holes in NGC6388 and M54 |
| 2015/07/01 2016/05/?? | Bridget McEwen | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM | Methanol Masers in the GC (as summer intern) and in SNR/MC interactions (as Reber fellow) |
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