CV

Curiculum Vitea

Danuta Paraficz

Polish citizen, b. 1982 in Poznan, POLAND

Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL)

2017 June Data Scientist at DufEnergy Tranding SA, Switzrland

2013 - 2017 June Post-Doc at the l'ASTRO, EPFL, SWITZERLAND

2010 - 2013 - Post-Doc at the Laboratoire Astrophysique de Marseille, FRANCE

29 January 2010- PhD graduation

2006 - 2009 - PhD position at the DARK Cosmology Centre, DENMARK

2005 - 2007 - Scientific Studentship at Nordic Optical Telescope

2004 - 2005 - Average grade at the Copenhagen University: 10.9 / 11.0

2004 - 2005 - Socrates program scholarship

2001 - 2005 - Scientific scholarship at Adam Mickiewicz University

2001 - 2004 - Average grade at the Adam Mickiewicz University: 4.8 / 5.0

Publications

1. The PCA Lens Finder: application to CFHTLS.

D. Paraficz, JF. Courbin, R. Joseph et al.

2017 A&A 592, 75

2. ASTErIsM - Application of topometric clustering algorithms in automatic galaxy detection and classification.

A. Tramacere, D. Paraficz, et al

2016 MNRAS 463

3. Hubble constant and dark energy inferred from free-form determined time delay distances.

M. Serano, D. Paraficz

2014 MNRAS 437

4. The Bullet Cluster revisited: New results from new constraints and improved strong lensing modeling technique.

D. Paraficz, J-P. Kneib, J.Richard et al

2015 ApJ

5. Gravitational lenses as cosmic rulers: m, from time delays and

velocity dispersions

D. Para.cz and J. Hjorth

2009 A&A 507

6. The Hubble constant inferred from 18 time delay lenses

D. Paraficz and J. Hjorth

2009 ApJ

7. Results of optical monitoring of 5 SDSS double QSOs with the

Nordic Optical Telescope

D. Paraficz, J. Hjorth and A. Elasdottir

2009 A&A

8. Microlensing variability in time-delay quasars

D. Para.cz, J. Hjorth, I. Burud, P. Jakobsson and .A. El..asd.ottir

2006 A&A

9. Resolving the Discrepancy Between Lensing and X-Ray Mass Esti-

mates of the Complex Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689

S. Riemer-Sorensen, D. Paraficz, D. D. M Ferreira, K. Pedersen, M. Limousin

and H. Dahle

2009 ApJ

10. Where is the matter in the Merging Cluster Abell 2218?

A. Elasdottir, M. Limousin, J. Richard, J. Hjorth, J., P. Kneib, P. Natarajan,

K. Pedersen, E. Jullo and D. Paraficz

2007, arXiv, 0710, 5636

11. Extinction Curves of Lensing Galaxies out to z = 1.

A. Eliasdottir, J. Hjorth, S. Toft, I. Burud and D. Paraficz

2006, ApJS, 166, 443

12. GRB 070612A: NOT observations.

D. Malesani, J. Hjorth, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Sollerman, G. Olofsson, D. Paraficz

and M. Durant

2007, GCN, 6555 ,1

13. GRB 070306: NOT observations.

D. Malesani, A. O. Jaunsen, C. C. Thoene, J. Hjorth, D. Paraficz, E. Leitet

and B. Caldwell

2007, GCN, 6178, 1

14. GRB 050922C: re.ned redshift.

P. Jakobsson, J. P. U. Fynbo, D. Paraficz, J. Telting, B. L. Jensen, J. Hjorth,

J. M. Castro Cern,

2005, GCN, 4029, 1

15. GRB 050922C: absorption redshift from the nordic optical tele-

scope.

P. Jakobsson, J. P. U. Fynbo, D. Paraficz, J. Telting, B. L. Jensen, J. Hjorth,

J. M. Castro Cern,

2005, GCN, 4017, 1

16. GRB 050922C: NOT optical observations.

P. Jakobsson, J. P. U. Fynbo, D. Paraficz, J. Telting, B. L. Jensen, J. Hjorth,

J. M. Castro Cern,

2005, GCN, 4015, 1

TALKS GIVEN

    1. Nordic Meeting in Physics Copenhagen June 2009 talk

    2. Invited talk Zurich May 2009 talk

    3. Invited talk Marseille April 2009 talk

    4. JENAM England March 2009 poster

    5. 44th Rencontres de Moriond La Thuile February 2009 poster

    6. Invited talk La Palma July 2008 talk

    7. Danish Physical Society Meeting Nyborg June 2008 talk

    8. Nordforsk Meeting Copenhagen April 2008 talk

    9. 43th Rencontres de Moriond La Thuile March 2008 poster

    10. Invited talk Copenhagen April 2007 talk

    11. ANGLES meeting Copenhagen November 2006 talk

    12. Danish Physical Society Meeting Nyborg June 2006 talk

SKILLS

    • Computing Shell scripting and pipelines

    • Astronomical software: IRAF, DAOphot, Gaia, CASA

    • Advanced programming in C, C++, Python and IDL

    • Machine Learning, statistics, data processing, data mining

    • Good knowledge of HTML and LATEX

    • Unix, Linux, and Windows

    • Observations 2 years work as a support astronomer at the NOT

    • Observations with ALMA and VLT X-shooter as visiting astronomer

    • Imaging with optical and infrared cameras

    • Spectroscopy with optical and infrared cameras

    • Polarimetry

    • Operating telescope and supporting observations

EDUCATION

2006 - 2009 PhD position at DARK Cosmology Centre, Denmark

2006 - 2007 Support Astronomer Scienti.c Studentshipat Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), Spain

2005 - 2006 Master Student of Astronomy at the Copenhagen University, Denmark

master thesis in gravitational lensing

under supervision of professor Jens Hjorth

2004 - 2005 Guest Student of Astronomy at the Copenhagen University, Denmark

2003 - 2004 Student of Computer Science at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

2001 - 2004 Student of Astronomy at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

1997 - 2001 Secondary school no. IX, Poznan, Poland

LANGUAGES

    1. Polish mother tongue

    2. English advanced

    3. German advanced

    4. Spanish intermediate

    5. Greek intermediate

    6. French beginner

    7. Danish beginner

Referees

Contact Details:

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Observatoire de Sauverny

CH-1290 Versoix

Switzerland