1. Employment and Research |
| 2006–present |
Associate Research Scientist in Extragalactic Astronomy/Cosmology at the
School of Earth and Space Exploration
and Dept. of Physics of the
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ.
Research interests: high-resolution Hα and UV–IR
imaging of nearby galaxies with GALEX, HST, and Spitzer;
galaxy interactions; the smallest galaxies in the local Universe; formation of
the first galaxies and of galaxy bulges and bars; star formation and the ISM
in nearby field galaxies; and recalibration of the HST/STIS CCD data
archive.
|
| 2004–2006 |
Assistant Research Scientist in Extragalactic Astronomy/Cosmology at the
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy of
the Arizona State University,
Tempe AZ.
Research interests: high-resolution Hα and UV–IR
imaging of nearby galaxies with GALEX, HST, and Spitzer;
galaxy interactions; a cosmological census of faint and/or small galaxies;
formation of the first galaxies and of galaxy bulges and bars; and star
formation and the ISM in nearby field galaxies.
|
| 2001–2004 |
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Dept.
of Physics & Astronomy of the
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ.
Research interests: high-resolution Hα and
mid-UV—near-IR
imaging of nearby galaxies with HST; re-ionization of
H I and He II in the IGM; taking a
cosmological census of faint galaxies; formation of the first galaxies and of
galaxy bulges; star formation and the ISM in nearby field galaxies; and data
restoration techniques.
Associateship supervisor: Dr. R.A. Windhorst |
| 2000–2001 |
ESA Internal Research Fellowship (postdoctoral) at the
Astrophysics Division of the
Space Science Department (aka. RSSD) of the European Space Agency, at the
European Space Research and Technology Center
(ESTEC), Noordwijk (NL).
Research interests: QSOs as tracers of large scale structure at high
redshifts; re-ionization of He II in the IGM at
z ~ 3; the expansion of the SN 1987A debris; intergalactic
far-UV He II absorption; and the ionized ISM in
nearby field galaxies.
Fellowship supervisor: Dr. P. Jakobsen. |
| 1993–2000 |
Ph.D. research at the Kapteyn
Astronomical Institute of the Univ. of
Groningen (NL), and
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA.
I obtained and analyzed UBR surface photometry, nuclear and
integrated spectro- photometry for a
representative sample of ~200 nearby field galaxies (see also: the
NFGS homepage).
Thesis supervisors: Dr. M. Franx and Dr. D.G. Fabricant. |
| 1992–1993 |
Masters thesis at the Instituto de
Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain) and at the
Kapteyn Institute: a
UBVRIJK' study of
the interstellar dust extinction curve in 4 highly inclined
galaxies.
Thesis supervisors: Dr. P.C. van der Kruit,
Dr. J.H. Knapen and Dr. J.E. Beckman. |
| 1991–1992 |
Undergraduate thesis at the Kapteyn
Institute: reduction of a high resolution radio continuum map of
M 33 at  = 49 cm, based on
observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope.
Supervisor: Dr. J.M. van der Hulst. |
4. Support |
| 2005–present |
I designed, created and maintain the web
pages for the Cosmology
Group within ASU's School of Earth and
Space Exploration (SESE).
|
| 2001–present |
Initial set-up, and part-time administration
of 17 networked RedHat 9 / Enterprise AS / CentOS linux PC work stations
and their periferals at ASU. I provide the specific computer support
demanded within the Cosmology Group at ASU, including IRAF, SuperMongo,
LaTeX support to (under)graduate students, where needed, the installation
and maintenance of various proposal tools, and serve as the local
Unix/Linux, Postscript, and HTML wizard of sorts.
|
| 2005 |
I wrote an
introduction to Linux/Unix for
undergraduate students without prior experience with this operating system
|
| 2005 |
Telescope User Support: I wrote an IRAF/ICE
control script (standards) for the Vatican
Advanced Technology Telescope to automatically cycle through multiple
exposures and/or filters.
|
| 2003–2007 |
I authored an "external layered package",
rjtools, for the Image Reduction and
Analysis Facility (IRAF), which was made
available to the larger astronomical community via
ftp://iraf.noao.edu/contrib.
|
| 2000–2001 |
IRAF, SuperMongo and Xfig support
to research fellows at ESA's ESTEC (NL).
|
| 1995–2000 |
IRAF support, mainly to fellow
students at the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen (NL).
|
| 1994–1995 |
Telescope user support: I wrote
rtshell control scripts for automated observations at the
F.L. Whipple Observatory's 48" telescope — some are still in use.
|
5a. Professional and University Service |
| 2004–2010 |
Served on the Doctoral Supervisory Committee
for the Physics Degree Program (Doctoral Dissertation Committee) at ASU:
– V.A. Taylor: Ph.D. Thesis (ASU): "An Imaging Survey of
Late-type Galaxies: Local Benchmarks of Galaxy
Evolution", Nov 21 2005
– Served on the Doctoral Dissertation Committee for the oral
exams of 5 graduate students
|
| 2004–2010 |
Served on the Masters Thesis Committee for
the Physics Degree Program at ASU:
– J. Russell: M.Sc. Thesis (ASU) on the nature of faint mJy
radio sources, Nov 21, 2006
|
| 2005–2007 |
Served on the Steward Observatory telescopes
Time
Allocation Committee, representing ASU. Periods: 2005C, 2006A–C,
2007A–C, and 2008A.
|
| 2007–present |
Served as referee for The Astrophysical
Journal.
|
| 2007 |
Served on the ASU/NASA Space Grant Steering
Committee.
|
| 2007 |
Served as external referee for PPARC
observing proposal (William Herschel Telescope)
|
| 2006–2007 |
Redesigned, implemented and maintained a new
LaTeX2ε class for Steward Observatory proposals.
|
| 2006–2007 |
Served on the SESE Computing Advisory
Committee at ASU.
|
| 2005–2006 |
Served on the Academic Professional Peer
Review Committee within the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy at ASU.
|
| 2004–present |
Served as referee for Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society.
|
| 2004–present |
Served as referee for the Astronomical
Journal.
|
| 2004 |
Served as referee for Publications of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
|
| 2004 |
Served on search committee for a postdoctoral
researcher in astronomy at ASU.
|
| 2002 |
Served as referee for Science.
|
| 1996 |
Served on the Masters Thesis
Committee for the Math & Physical Sciences Degree Program at the
University of Groningen (NL):
– H. Zeelenberg: M.Sc. Thesis on surface photometry of nearby
galaxies, Aug 31, 1996
|
| 1992 |
Assistant editor for the annual
report of Space Research Organization Netherlands (SRON), Groningen.
|
| 1990–1992 |
Student member, Astronomy
Education Committee, University of Groningen.
|
5a. Public Outreach and Community Service |
| 2005–present |
Dutch translator of
Astronomy Picture
of the Day at http://www.apod.nl/
|
| 2007 |
Guest lecture at the East Valley Astronomy Club, Gilbert AZ, Apr 20
|
| 2005 |
Served as Grands Award Judge for the 2005
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
(ISEF), Phoenix, May 8–14.
|
| 2000 |
Lecture for amateur astronomers
(HWSK), Haarlem (NL).
|
| 1999 |
Radio and TV interview on the
SETI@home project (RTV-Noord, NL).
|
| 1998–1999 |
Series of lectures given to amateur
astronomers throughout the Netherlands (NVWS).
|
| 1994 |
Cosmology talk at the Jambouree
of the Int'nl Scouting Organisation.
|
| 1993 |
Popular Scientific publication on
the newly discovered/proposed bar in our Milky Way galaxy
(ZENIT, april 1993).
|
| 1993 |
Local coordinator `Astronomy' for
the National Science Week, Groningen (NL).
|
| 1991–1992 |
Illustrator of
two sets of slides produced for the Dutch Association of Public
Observatories (LVS).
|
| 1991 |
Several talks on Astronomical
Observatories for amateur astronomers.
|
6. Use of Telescopes & Instrumentation† |
†
Only successful proposals are listed |
| 2007–2008 |
P.I. on Archival
Calibration Legacy program #11258 to remove the erratic herringbone
pattern-noise from all
Hubble Space
Telescope / STIS
"Side-2" CCD data.
|
| 2007–2008 |
Co-I on
Hubble Space Telescope archival program #11287: Fundamental
Limitations in deep HST Fields: Surface Brightness, Natural Confusion &
Algorithmic Biases
|
| 2007–2008 |
Co-I on a
program to obtain Strömgren photometry of galaxy satellites, using the
1.8 m VATT (Vatican Advanced Technology
Telescope; Mt. Graham, AZ). (12 nights)
|
| 2006–2008 |
P.I. on a
program to obtain Hα surface photometry of galaxies
in the Nearby Field Galaxy Survey, using the
1.8 m VATT (Vatican Advanced Technology
Telescope; Mt. Graham, AZ). (25 nights)
|
| 2006–2007 |
Co-I on
Spitzer Space Telescope
IRAC+MIPS GO program #30406: Understanding the Blue-Sequence E/S0
Population: Fading Remnants and Future Spirals.
|
| 2006–2007 |
Co-I on
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS and
NICMOS archival
program #10974: The Unresolved Stellar Populations of Galaxies in the HUDF:
Constraints on Hierarchical Formation.
|
| 2006–2007 |
Administrative
PI, and Co-I on Hubble Space Telescope
ACS GO program
#10843: Deep Imaging of an Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy.
|
| 2004–2006 |
P.I. on
Hα imaging program of galaxies within nearby voids
with the
1.8 m VATT (Vatican Advanced Technology
Telescope; Mt. Graham, AZ). (18 nights)
|
| 2004 |
co-I on
GALEX SNAPshot program
#36: observations of Dwarf Galaxies imaged with HST and
Spitzer.
|
| 2004 |
co-I on
a 8 m Gemini Survey of Very Red Objects
in ACS parallels
|
| 2003–2005 |
P.I. on
optical broad-band and Hα imaging programs of nearby
galaxies with the
1.8 m VATT (Vatican Advanced Technology
Telescope; Mt. Graham, AZ). (38 nights)
|
| 2003–2004 |
P.I. on
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
ACS (Advanced Camera for Surveys)
program #9892: an Hα SNAPshot survey of Nearby Galaxies
observed in F300W.
|
| 2003–2004 |
co-I on HST
NICMOS (Near Infrared
Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer) program #9824: The Remarkable Cool
Stellar Population in Late-type Galaxies.
|
| 2003–2004 |
co-I (informal)
on HST WFPC2 (Wide
Field and Planetary Camera 2) program #9955 to measure the All-sky Zodiacal
Background and Constrain Kuiper Belt Objects at mR > 28.
|
| 2003–2004 |
co-I on a
JCMT/SCUBA program to image nearby irregular galaxies at 850µm.
|
| 2003 |
P.I. on a
6.5 m Magellan
Baade (Las Campanas, Chile)
IMACS program to
obtain a Cosmological Census of Galaxy Structure, Assembly & Evolution
at mB > 20. (4 nights)
|
| 2003 |
co-I on a
UKIRT JHKL-band survey of hot dust and star formation in normal
galaxies.
|
| 2003 |
6.5 m MMT (formerly
Multiple
Mirror Telescope; Tucson, AZ) Blue Channel Spectro
graph long-slit spectroscopy of GRB030329/SN2003dh and field
galaxies at z~ 0.2-0.5. (6 nights)
|
| 2002–2014 |
James Webb Space Telescope
(formerly the Next Generation Space Telescope): as co-I on a
long-term program to characterize galaxy formation and evolution from
z ~ 20 to the present.
|
| 2001–2003 |
HST
STIS
(Space Telescope
Imaging Spectrograph) search for the H reionization edge
at z > 6 (cycle 10+11, through collaboration). (425 orbits)
|
| 2001–2002 |
co-I on a
Hα imaging program of nearby interacting and isolated
galaxies with the
1.8 m
VATT, Mt. Graham, AZ. (25 nights)
|
| 2001–2002 |
Hubble
Space Telescope WFPC2
(Wide Field
Planetary Camera 2), mid-UV snapshots of nearby galaxies
(cycle 9+10, through collaboration). (89 orbits)
|
| 2001–2002 |
co-I on ESO (Paranal, Chile)
8.2 m VLT-UT3 Melipal /
FORS1 search for
Lyα from QSOs reionizing He II at
z = 2.8 – 3.1
(Visitor Mode; 4 nights)
|
| 2001 |
HST
STIS
(Space Telescope
Imaging Spectrograph), far-UV MAMA observations of high z
quasars (cycle 7 and 8, archival observations).
|
| 2001 |
co-I on ESO (Paranal, Chile)
8.2 m VLT-UT1 Antu /
FORS1 search
for Lyα from a QSO reionizing He II
at z ~ 3 using a filtered dispersed imaging technique (Service Mode;
~2.5 hours).
|
| 2000 |
HST
FOC
(Faint
Object Camera) f/96 near-UV objective prism observations of
SN 1987A (cycle 5 [through collaboration], supplemented by archival
FOC, WFPC2 & STIS data).
|
| 2000 |
ESO (La Silla, Chile)
3.6 m /
EFOSC1
(ESO Faint Object Spectrograph and
Camera 1) optical long-slit spectroscopy of QSO candidates (through
collaboration).
|
| 1994–1997 |
F.L. Whipple Observatory (FLWO; Tucson, AZ)
1.2 m
telescope; co-I on a long-term program to obtain U,B,R
surface photometry for ~200 nearby galaxies. (51 nights)
|
| 1996 |
α test of remote FLWO
1.2 m observations from the CfA (2 nights).
|
| 1995–1996 |
FLWO
(Tucson, AZ)
1.5 m
Tillinghast and
FAST
spectrograph; co-I on long-term program to obtain nuclear and integrated
spectrophotometry of ~200 nearby galaxies. (54 nights)
|
| 1994 |
FLWO
(Tucson, AZ)
1.5 m
Tillinghast and
FAST
spectrograph; co-I on program to obtain nuclear spectroscopy of nearby
galaxies. (5 nights)
|
| 1993 |
Multiple Mirror
Telescope (Tucson, AZ)
Red Channel
Spectrograph, multi-slit spectroscopy of a galaxy cluster CL0024+16
at z~0.39 (data obtained by supervisor).
|
| 1992 |
ESO (La Silla, Chile)
2.2 m
telescope and
IRAC2
camera; JHK NIR imaging of highly inclined galaxies (through
collaboration).
|
| 1992 |
1 m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (La Palma, Spain); UBVRI
CCD surface photometry of highly inclined galaxies (data obtained by
supervisor).
|
| 1991 |
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
(WSRT; Westerbork, NL); full synthesis radio continuum mapping of M 33
(data obtained by supervisor).
|
Other
Experience: |
| 2005–present |
Dutch translator of
Astronomy Picture
of the Day at http://www.apod.nl/
|
| 1993,1996 |
Illustrator of the Faculty
Information Guide (``ß-wijzer'') and the Information Package for
foreign students of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
of the University of Groningen. |
| 1991–1992 |
Illustrator of
two sets of slides produced for the Dutch Association of Public
Observatories (LVS). |
| 1991 |
Music instructor (recorder),
Groningen |
| 1987 |
Fresh produce assistant in a
super market, Vlissingen |
| 1987 |
Illustrator of the 1987 freshmen
study guide, St.Willibrord College, Goes |
| 1984–1987 |
Illustrator of the High School
newspaper of the St.Willibrord College, Goes |
| 1982–1986 |
Several musical performances
as member of a recorder quartet, soprano, alto and bass recorder;
Vlissingen and Middleburg
|
| 1981 |
Performance with the Goese
Koorschool (boys choir) of E. Heijblok, recorder, at the 1981 election night
CDA regional election headquarters, Kapelle |
| 1980–1986 |
Various musical performances as
member of the van Soest youth symphony orchestra, lead soprano recorder;
Vlissingen, Middelburg, 's-Heer-Arendskerke, Yerseke |
| 1980 |
Won color TV for Markus School
elementary school, by securing entry in a knowledge quiz with a poem and
subsequently as panel member on that quiz. |
Awards &
Grants: |
| 2008–2009 |
NASA/ASMCS grant in support of a mission
concept study for a wide-field UV–near-IR camera on a 4 m
class space telescope. The science focus for that camera will be a
systematic study of star formation from the nearby to very distant
universe. (Instrument P.I.: Scowen). ($ ~300,000)
|
| 2007–2008 |
NASA/STScI grant in support of a Cycle 16
HST/STIS Archival Calibration Legacy program, to remove the highly
erratic pattern-noise in all Side-2 STIS/CCD data (P.I.: Jansen).
($ 179,935)
|
| 2007–2008 |
NASA/STScI grant in support of a Cycle 16
Archival Research program, to study fundamental limitations in deep
HST Fields (P.I.: Windhorst). ($ 85,348)
|
| 2007–2008 |
NASA/ADP grant in support of a multi-wavelength
study of nearby galaxies (P.I.: Windhorst) ($ 69,237)
|
| 2007 |
NASA/STScI grant in support of a Cycle 15
HST/ACS program to image an extremely metal-poor galaxy with ACS
(P.I.: Corbin) ($ 48,695)
|
| 2006 |
NASA/STScI grant in support of a Cycle 15
Archival HST/ACS program to study unresolved stellar populations
within galaxies in the HUDF (P.I.: Ryan) ($ 50,000)
|
| 2004 |
GALEX grant in support of Cycle 1 SNAPshot
survey of Dwarf Galaxies observed previously with HST and
Spitzer (P.I.: Windhorst) ($ 30,000).
|
| 2004 |
NASA grant in support of the development of
the HORUS Origins Mission concept
(P.I.: Morse/Scowen) ($ 97,288)
|
| 2003 |
NASA/STScI grant in support of Cycle 12
HST/ACS Hα SNAPshot survey of nearby galaxies
observed previously in F300W (P.I.: Jansen).
Award total: $ 93,216
|
| 2003 |
NASA/STScI grant in support of Cycle 12
HST/NICMOS study of the cool stellar populations in late-type
galaxies (P.I.: Windhorst). Award total: $ 89,139
|
| 2002–2014 |
NASA 13-year grant in support of
multi-disciplinary JWST scientist (P.I. Windhorst) program ''next
generation frontier studies with JWST''. Award total $ 1,290,390
|
| 2000 |
Kapteyn Institute grant for the printing and
distribution of my Ph.D. Thesis. $ 1,100.
|
| 1995,1998 |
Poster prizes, Dutch Astronomers Conference
(1995) and Euro-conference on ``the Evolution of Galaxies on Cosmological
Timescales'' (1998).
|
| 1995–1996,1998 |
Smithsonian Pre-doctoral Fellowship at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA, twice, for a
7 month period each.
Award total: $ 24,345 from US (SAO) and NL (LKBF, KAI, and NWO)
sources.
|
| 1994–1999 |
Grants to participate in the IAU General
Assembly (1994), IAU Symposium ``New Light on Galaxy Evolution'' (1995),
the Euroconference on ``the Evolution of Galaxies on Cosmological Timescales
(1998) and the XIXth Moriond Astrophysics Meeting on ``Building
Galaxies: from the Primordial Universe to the Present'' (1999), from the
Kapteyn Institute (KAI), the Leiden Kerkhoven-Bosscha Fund (LKBF), and the
European Union (TMR) ($ 675 TMR; $ 1,325 LKBF; $ 1,340 KAI).
|
Conferences, Schools and Meetings: |
| 2007, Jan 5–10 |
209th Meeting of the
American Astronomical Society (AAS), Seattle WA.
|
| 2005, Oct 17–18 |
Steward Observatory Internal
Symposium, Tucson, AZ.
|
| 2004, Nov 15–20 |
Work visit to the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA.
|
| 2004, Nov 3– 4 |
Steward Observatory Internal Symposium, Tucson, AZ.
|
| 2004, Oct 11– 13 |
Maryland Astrophysics Conference
on "New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos", College Park, MD.
|
| 2004, Jun 7– 12 |
International conference on
"Penetrating Bars Through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork
Strikes a New Note", Pilanesberg National Park (South Africa)
|
| 2004, May 17 |
Work visit to the Kapteyn
Astronomical Institute, Groningen (Netherlands)
|
| 2003, Oct 6– 7 |
Steward Observatory Internal Symposium, Tucson, AZ.
|
| 2003, Sep 23–27 |
Work visit to the Steward
Observatory, Tucson, AZ.
|
| 2003, Apr 28–29 |
Work visit to ESA/ESTEC RSSD,
Noordwijk (Netherlands)
|
| 2002, Oct 17–18 |
HST Calibration Workshop, STScI, Baltimore MD.
|
| 2002, Oct 10–11 |
Lowell Observatory Workshop on "The outer regions
of galaxies", Flagstaff AZ.
|
| 2002, Jan 6–11 |
199th Meeting of the
American Astronomical Society (AAS), Washington D.C.
|
| 2001, Nov 1– 2 |
Steward Observatory Internal Symposium, Tucson AZ.
|
| 2001, May 16–18 |
56th Dutch Astronomers
Conference, Dalfsen (Netherlands)
|
| 1999, May 5– 7 |
54th Dutch Astronomers
Conference, Elspeet (Netherlands)
|
| 1999, Mar 13–19 |
XIXth Rencontres
Astrophysique de Moriond "Building Galaxies from the Primordial Universe
to the Present", Les Arcs (France)
|
| 1998, Nov 30–Dec 5 |
Euro-conference on "The Evolution
of Galaxies on Cosmological Timescales'', Puerto la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain)
|
| 1997, May 14–16 |
52nd Dutch Astronomers
Conference, Dalfsen (Netherlands)
|
| 1995, Jun 26–30 |
IAU Symposium no.171 "New Light
on Galaxy Evolution", Heidelberg (Germany)
|
| 1995, May 18–20 |
50th Dutch Astronomers
Conference, Rokanje (Netherlands)
|
| 1994, Aug 15–27 |
XXIInd General
Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), Symposia no. 164,
168 and 169, The Hague (Netherlands)
|
| 1993, May 6– 8 |
48th Dutch
Astronomers Conference, De Haan aan Zee (Belgium)
|
| 1993, Nov 8–12 |
1st NOVA autumn school
on Stellar Winds, Dwingeloo (Netherlands)
|
| 1992, Dec 7–19 |
IVth Canary Islands
Winter School on Infrared Astronomy, Playa Las Americas, Tenerife (Spain)
|
| 1992, May 7– 9 |
47th Dutch Astronomers
Conference, Ameland (Netherlands)
|
| 1991, May 2– 4 |
46th Dutch Astronomers
Conference, Lunteren (Netherlands)
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