Extended curriculum vitae

Basic information

Education:

• 2012 PhD Astronomy, University of Helsinki, Finland

• 2007 MSc Astronomy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Academic Experience:

• • 2016 - current, Assistant professor, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

• 2015 - 2016, Postdoctoral researcher, Lowell Observatory, USA

• 2012 - 2015, Postdoctoral researcher, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

• 2011 - 2012, Student support astronomer, Nordic Optical Telescope, Spain

• 2010 - 2011, Predoctoral student, Lowell Observatory, USA

• 2007 - 2012, PhD student, University of Helsinki, Finland

• 2006 - 2007, Erasmus student, Umea University, Sweden

• 2001 - 2007, Undergraduate student, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Science dissimination

Publications: 

• Full list of my publications can be found here.

• Published in: 

  • Astronomy & Astrophysics (IF 4.479), 

  • Icarus (IF 2.840), 

  • Meteoritics & Planetary Science (IF 2.827), 

  • Planetary & Space Science (IF 1.630), 

  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer (IF 2.288), 

  • and others

Invited talks:

• 2016 "Asteroid taxonomy and magnitude systems", Oszkiewicz et al., Sturdust Final Conference, The Nethrlands

• 2015 "Differentiated asteroids as a missing link in the history of the Solar System", XXXVII Congress of the Polish Astronomical Society, Poland

• 2014, "Asteroid taxonomy and the H,G1,G2 magnitude system", Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2014, Helsinki, Finland 

• 2013, "Lowell photometric and astrometric databases as precursors to Gaia", EWASS 2013 - Logomo, Turku, Finland

Contributed talks:

• 2017, "Non-Vestoid candidates in the inner Main Belt", Oszkiewicz et al., ACM2017, Montevideo, Uruguay

• 2013, "Selecting asteroids for a spectroscopic survey", Oszkiewicz, et al., ASSG2013 : Asteroid Spectroscopy in Support of Gaia, Nice, France

• 2011"Asteroid physical and dynamical properties from Lowell Observatory photometric database", Oszkiewicz et al., Solar System science before and after Gaia, Pisa, Italy

•  2011, "Information on asteroid taxonomy contained in phase curves", Oszkiewicz et al., EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting, Nantes, France

•  2011 "Inverse methods for asteroid orbit computation", Oszkiewicz et al., ELSA conference, Gaia: At the frontiers of astrometry, Paris, France

• 2009 "Asteroid orbits with Gaia using MCMC ranging", Oszkiewicz et al., Geophysics Days, Helsinki

• 2007 "Flower satellite constellations", E. Wnuk, D. A. Oszkiewicz, Polish national celestial mechanics seminar, Ciechocinek, Poland

Posters: 

• Number of posters at various international conferences (ACM, DPS, PDC, EPSC, IAU GA, etc.)

Observing and technical skills

Observing experience:

• Using data from service/que observations:

  • 10 m South African Large Telescope (South African Astronomical Observatory, Republic of South Africa):

    • VIS spectroscopy of asteroids (instrument: RSS)

  • 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, Spain):

    • VIS spectroscopy of asteroids (instrument: ALFOSC)

    • Photometry of asteroids (instrument: ALFOSC)

  • 70 cm Poznan Spectroscopic Telescope 2 (Winer Observatory, USA):

    • Photometry of asteroids

• Observing in visiting mode/performing service observations:

  • 4.3 m Discovery Chanel Telescope (Lowell Observatory, USA)

    • Long-slit spectroscopy of asteroids in visible wavelengths (instrument: DeVeny) 

  • 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, Spain):

    • Fiber and long-slit spectroscopy in visible wavelengths (instruments: FIES, ALFOSC)

    • Observations of fast and slow moving objects (instrument: ALFOSC)

  • 1.9 m (South African Astronomical Observatory, Republic of South Africa):

    • Photometry of asteroids (instrument: SHOC)

  • 1.8 m Perkins Telescope (Anderson Mesa Station, USA)

    • Photometry of asteroids (instrument: PRISM)

  • 1.06 m John Hall Telescope (Anderson Mesa Station, USA)

    • Photometry of asteroids (instrument: NASA42)

  • 59 cm Schmidt telescope - Photometry (Anderson Mesa Station, USA):

    • Photometry of asteroids

  • 60 cm telescope (Mount Suchora Observatory, Poland):

    • Photometry of variable stars

  • 40 cm Borowiec photometric telescope (Borowiec Observatory, Poland):

    • Photometry of asteroids

Contributions to Scientific Software and resources:

• Asteroid Phase Function Analyzer (Java) - online open-source java applet for computing asteroid photometric parameters - main author

• Database of absolute magnitudes and phase curve parameters for around 420 000 asteroids

• OpenOrb (Fortran), an open-source asteroid orbit computation software package. The source contains the Monte-Carlo and Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo statistical orbital ranging. - contributor

• OrbitalInversion (Java), package for short-term processing pipeline of the Gaia satellite data. DPAC, CU4, Solar System Objects. - contributor

• Orbit (C++, OpenGL) package for simulation and visualization (animation) of flower satellite constellations (for the needs of master thesis). - main author

Miscellaneous:

• Programming languages: Python (present), other languages used: Java, Fortran, C, C++

• Operating systems: Mac/Linux

• Other software: LaTeX, IRAF, Gaia, ds9, etc.

• Languages: English, Polish

• Driving license: category B

Teaching experience

Lecturing: 

• • Astrodynamics - 2016, 2017

Practical classes: 

• • Computer methods in astronomy - 2016, 2017

  • Astronomy (observing class) - 2016, 2017

  • Computer lab - 2016

  • Astronomy for geoinformatics students - 2016, 2017

  • Astrodynamics 2017

  • Solar System dynamics 2017

Student supervision: 

• • Bachelor thesis:

    • 2017, "Analysis of formal uncertanities in determining asteroid rotational periods using Fourier series", Karolina Dziadura

Public outreach

Science popularization

• Creator of educational trail in the "Meteorite Morasko" nature reserve (Poznań, Poland)

• Supporting telescope viewing during the European Reaserchers Night 2013

• Co-organizer of popular science conference "Meteorite Morasko - 100th anniversary of first discovery"

• Multiple public talks during various popularisation events 

• Popular Science publications:

  • 2008 "Finnish Fireball Network", D.Oszkiewicz, Cyrqlarz no. 189 (Polish amateur astronomy magazine) 

  • "Educational Trail in the Meteorite Morasko Nature Reserve", Urania (Polish Astronomical Society magazine) 

Grants, awards, memberships, etc.

Awards:

• 2017, Adam Mickiewicz University Dean's individual award III degree

• 2015, Scholarship for outstanding young scientists, Ministry of Science and higher education, Poland

• 2014, Asteroid: (16406) Oszkiewicz, International Astronomical Union

Grants and Fellowships (past and current):

• • 2023-2027 OPUS23 Polish National Science Center (PI: Oszkiewicz) (48 months)

  • 2018-2023 SONATA13 Polish National Science Center (PI: Oszkiewicz) (36 months)

  • 2018-2022 OPUS13 Polish National Science Center Grant  (PI: Kryszczyńska) (36 months)

  • 2017-2019 SANORDA (ESA contract), NEO expert (24 months)

  • 2015-2016 National Science Foundation (USA) grant number 73016 - employed in the grant (PI: Grundy) (12 months)

  • 2015-2016 NEOTools, (ESA contract), NEO expert (24 months)

  • 2012-2015 FUGA Polish National Science Center Grant nr 2012/S/ST9/00022 "Differentiated asteroids as a missing link to the Solar System history" (PI: Oszkiewicz) (36 months)

  • 2012 European Science Fundation grant: G3: Exchange Visit supported from the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training Network - programme supported by the European Commision through its seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Marie Curie programme under grant agreement 264895  (4 months)

  • 2011-2012 Nordic Optical Telescope scholarship (6 months)

  • 2010-2011 Magnus Ehrnrooth scholarship (12 months)

  • 2007-2010 ELSA fellowship - Marie Curie Research Training Network supported by the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). Network contract: MRTN-CT-2006-033481 - employed in grant (Node PI: Muinonen) (36 months)

  • 2006 Scientific scholarship - Adam Mickiewicz University (12 months)

Acted as a referee for:

• Icarus - (2020 - 1)

• Astronomical Journal (2017 -1)

• Geophysica (2016 - 1)

• Planetary and Space Science (2014 - 1, 2015 - 1)

• The Earth magazine (2015 - 1)

Conference organization:

• Member of the local organizing committee for:

  • Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2014, Helsinki, Finland

  • Meteoroids 2013, Poznań, Poland

  • Electromagnetic and Light Scattering XII, 2010, Helsinki, Finland

Professional memberships:

• Polish Astronomical Society

• International Astronomical Union

• Europlanet Society

• European Astronomical Society

• American Astronomical Society

• Member of the CEN-CENELEC group for NEA standarisation (led by ESA)

Other professional activities:

• 2012 - 2014: Organizing Journal Club meetings at Poznań Observatory

Visits at other institutions, conferences, workshops, schools and similar

Visits at other institutions

• 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NIR data reduction training)

• 2012 The Institut de mecanique celeste et de calcul des ephemerides (Development of MCMC orbit computation method for binary asteroids)

• 2009 Paris Meudon Observatory, France (Studies of physical properties of asteroid-comet transition Objects Elst-Pizarro and 2004 HW)

• 2008 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Astronomy Group, Belgium (Gaia code development)

International conferences attended

• 2017 ACM, Montevideo, Uruguay

• 2014 ACM, Helsinki, Finland

• 2013 3rd IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Flagstaff, USA

• 2013 Meteoroids, Poznań, Poland

• 2013 EWASS, Turku, Finland

• 2011 43rd DPS and EPSC meeting, Nantes, France

• 2010 42nd DPS meeting, Pasadena, USA

• 2009 IAU`s XXVII GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• 2009 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids, Granada, Spain

• 2008 ACM, Baltimore, USA

Workshops and schools:

• 2016 Stardust final conference, ESTEC, ESA, The Netherlands

• 2016 Missing links from discs to planets, Budapest, Hungary

• 2014 Social media in science popularisation, EFS, Polish Science Foundation

• 2014 Negociation skills, EFS, Polish Science Foundation

• 2013 3rd Workshop on binaries in the Solar System, Hawaii, USA

• 2013 Asteroid Spectroscopy in Support of Gaia, Nice, France

• 2010 Solar System science before and after Gaia, Pisa, Italy

• 2010 Binaries in the Solar System II, Poznań, Poland

• 2009 ELSA School on the Techniques of Gaia Heidelberg, Germany

• 2008 ELSA Workshop on Software Engineering and Numerics, Barcelona, Spain

• 2008 Gaia JAVA Workshop 2008 at ESAC, Madrid, Spain

• 2008 The Finnish Graduate School in Astronomy and Space Physics, Summer School 2008: Multi-dimensional Data Analysis and Data Mining, Repovesi national park, Finland

• 2008 Data Base workshops at ESAC, Madrid, Spain

• 2007 ELSA School on the Science of Gaia, Leiden, The Netherlands

• 2007 Manned Space Flights, Summer Course, Kiruna Sweden

• 2007 Space Science and Technology, Summer Course, Kiruna, Sweden

• 2005 VIRGO-EGO-SIGRAV school on gravitational waves, Cascina, Italy

Other meetings:

• 2015 Paris, France, Horizont 2020 - grant preparation

• 2014 Canterbury, UK, Horizont 2020 - grant preparation

• 2014 PKiM seminar, Warsaw, Poland

• 2013 XXXVI general Asembly of Polish Astronomical Society, Warsaw, Poland

• 2009 The International Conference of Young Astronomers (ICYA), Krakow, Poland

• 2009 DPAC CU4 8th meeting, Dresden Observatory, Germny

• 2009 DPAC CU4 7th meeting, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy

• 2009 Geophysics Days 2009, Helsinki, Finland

• 2009 GREAT Kick off meeting, Cambridge, UK

• 2008 ELSA Mid-Term Review and follow-up meeting, Brussels, Belgium

• 2008 A national meeting of the Finnish ESO scientist and students, Tuorla Observatory, Finland

• 2008 DPAC CU4 5th meeting, Liege, Belgium

• 2007 DPAC CU4 4th meeting, Paris, France

• 2007 FinCOSPAR, Espoo, Finland

• 2005 III Meteorite seminar, Olsztyn, Poland

• 2005 XXI Comets and Meteors Workshop seminar, Warsaw, Poland

• 2004 VI Conference of comet observers, PTMA, Cracow, Poland

• 2004 National seminar of astronomy students, Warsaw, Poland