CV
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Research experience
4/2021 - ongoing
THz sensing group, TU Delft, the Netherlands: NWO Veni Fellow, co-hosted by Leiden Observatory
8/2017 - 3/2021
Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands: Postdoctoral researcher, mm-wave interferometry, high-redshift galaxies
9/2013 - 5/2017
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics / Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany: Postgraduate student. Supervisor: S. Vegetti, S. D. M. White
Education
2009 - 2013
University of St Andrews, UK: MPhys (Physics and Astronomy), First Class
2008 - 2009
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia: BSc (Physics), left after one year for St Andrews
Student supervision
J. Jansen (U Leiden): MSc project, 2023
Juliëtte Hilhorst (U Leiden): MSc project, 2022
Lucas Lemsom (TU Delft): BSc project, 2022
L. Abbo (U Leiden): BSc project, 2021
F. Ballieux (U Leiden): BSc project, 2021
L. Ligthart (TU Delft): BSc project, 2021
Greg Sallaberry (U Leiden): MSc project, 2021
Tessa Paauw (U Leiden): BSc project, 2021
Bryndis Ragnarsdottir (U Leiden): MSc project, 2021: Investigating the Dust Continuum Morphology of High-Resolution ALMA Submillimeter Galaxies
Brigitte Pruijl (U Leiden): MSc project, 2021: Gravitational Lens Modelling of z=2-3 Dusty Star Forming Galaxies and the FIR-CO(9-8) Luminosity Relation
Marta Frias Castillo (U Leiden): PhD (2019 - )
Joshiwa van Marrewijk (U Leiden): Finding rare molecules in the early Universe using matched filtering - MSc project (2019-20)
Aniek van Ogtrop (U Leiden): Investigating systematics of ALMA data analysis - BSc project (2019)
Thijs Stockmans (U Leiden): Studying [CII], CO and dust emission in sub-millimetre galaxies using zoom-in simulations - MSc project (2018-19)
Gerben Jolink (U Leiden): Constraining dense gas fraction via HCN observations in high-redshift galaxies - BSc project (2018)
Sara Zahoor (NUST Islamabad / LEAPS student): Looking into sub-millimetre galaxies with ALMA - LEAPS summer research project (2018)
Conference talks & presentations
NOVA Network 1 meeting (online), 10/2021 - contributed talk
European Astronomical Society meeting (Leiden/online), 7/2021 - contributed talk
European Astronomical Society meeting (Leiden/online), 7/2021 - poster
NIST: Low Temperature Detectors Workshop, 6/2021 - poster
European Astronomical Society meeting (Leiden/online), 6/2020 - poster
SFB2021 workshop (Bonn/Cologne) - invited talk
Views on the ISM in galaxies in the ALMA Era, Bologna (IT), 9/2019 - invited talk
IAU Symposium, Viana do Castelo (PT), 6/2019 - poster (Best Poster Award)
Netherlands Astronomers' Conference, Groningen (NL), 5/2019 - contributed talk
Dusting the Universe, Tucson, AZ, 3/2018 - contributed talk, slides
ALMA Science Day, Leiden (NL), 11/2018 - invited talk
Laws Of Star Formation, Cambridge (UK), 7/2018 - poster here
Netherlands Astronomers' Conference, Groningen (NL), 5/2018 - plenary talk
Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies and clusters, Aosta (IT), 6/2017 - contributed talk
Half a Decade of ALMA, Palm Springs (USA), 9/2017 - poster here
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Lindau (DE), 7/2017 - poster, webpage here
Hundred Years of Gravitational Lensing, Leiden (NL), 6/2016 - slides here
ALMA/Herschel Archival Workshop, Garching (DE), 4/2015 - slides here
Strong Gravitational Lensing, Tokyo (JPN), 11/2014 - slides here
Upcoming:
Invited seminars and colloquia:
ASTRON (NL), University of Cambridge (UK), University of California Davis (US), Durham University (UK), Lancaster University (UK), Ludwig-Maximilian University (DE), MPA Garching (DE), Prague (CZ), Stanford University (US), Swinburtne Technical University (AUS), University of Melbourne (AUS)
Computational skills:
Python (including: SciPy, Numpy, Pandas)
C, including parallel processing / distributed memory (MPI, a bit of OpenMP)
Astronomy/Astrophysics packages: CASA, DS9, AstroPy, WS-Clean
Fortran; C++ (limited experience)
Languages
English (fluent, main language for 10 years)
Slovak (native)
Czech (almost native)
German (good; 3+ years in Germany)
Dutch (good)