Support Scientist for the ELT/METIS instrument at Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA) in Taiwan. Involved in the HiRISE project at LAM, Marseille, to combine high contract imaging and high dispersion spectroscopy at the VLT, and the MASCARA project at Leiden Observatory which searches for transiting exoplanets around the brightest stars. PhD on the prototyping, lab-testing and on-sky demonstration of a new type of broad-band coronagraphs. Amateur-genealogist with an interest in genetics as a tool to research family history.
Interests
- Astronomical instrumentation
- Exoplanets
- Achromatic optics
- Coronagraphy
- High dispersion spectroscopy
- Interferometry
- Wavefront sensing
- Genealogy
- Genetics
- History
Education
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PhD in Astronomical Instrumentation, 2016
Leiden Observatory
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MSc in Astronomy, 2011
Leiden University
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BSc in Astronomy, 2009
Leiden University