last update September 2014
Curriculum
Vitae
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & EMPLOYMENT
2014 – todate: Postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany
2012 – 2014: International Research Fellow at the European
Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
2009 –
2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation at
AIfA, Bonn, GER
2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
2008 – 2009: University of Bonn Research Fellowship, at AIfA, Bonn, GER
2008: German Reasearch Foundation Priority Programme-1177, grant for
visiting reasearchers
2007 – 2008: German Research Foundation Research Fellowship, at AIfA,
Bonn, GER
2005 – 2007: Graduate
Student Research Fellowship, at STScI, Baltimore, USA
2004 – 2005: DFG Graduate Research School (GRK 787) PhD fellowship, at
Uni-Bonn, Bonn, GER
2004: Research Fellowship at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgaria
2002 – 2004: Junior Research Assistant, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgaria
EDUCATION
2008 – PhD in Physics and Astronomy at the Argelander
Institut f̈r Astronomie (AIfA) der Universität
Bonn,
Germany, jointly with the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA
Topic: “Globular
Cluster Systems in Dwarf Irregular galaxies”
Supervisors: Prof. Klaas S. de
Boer (AIfA)
and Dr.
Michael Hilker (ESO)
2004 – M.Sc. diploma in Physics and Astronomy at
the Faculty of
Physics,
Department of Astronomy, Sofia
University
“St. Kliment
Ohridsk”, Bulgaria.
Topic: “Photometric
investigation of the outer regions of the M82 galaxy in search for
globular
clusters candidates”
Supervisors: Prof. Georgi
Ivanov and Dr. Todor Veltchev
2004 – B.Sc. diploma for Higher Education in
Physics at
the Faculty of
Physics, Sofia
University “St.
Kliment
Ohridski”, Bulgaria.
Topic: “Starburst
regions and superstar clusters in the irregular galaxy M82”
Supervisors:
Prof. Georgi Ivanov and Dr. Todor Veltchev
EXPERIENCE - OBSERVING and SOFTWARE
Approved
Observing Programs as Principal (PI) and Co-Investigator (CoI):
– Co-I for HST
program "The Proper Motion of Palomar 5 and its Tidal Tails” (GO:12957)
PI: Küpper, A., Co-Is: Georgiev, I.Y., Goudfrooij, P., Bedin, L., Bellini, A., Còte, P., Geha ,M., Kroupa, P., Pawlowsk, M., Stolte, A.
– Co-I for program "The Stellar Populations of
Ultra-Compact Dwarfs - Galaxies or Star Clusters?"
(087.B-0758, VLT/XSHOOTER)
PI: Puzia, Co-Is: Matthias Frank, M.
Hilker, I. Misgeld, M. Taylor, S. Mieske
– PI
for program “Constraining
the nature of bright nuclear clusters in dwarf irregular galaxies”
Co-I: Hilker, Puzia, Goudfrooij, Baumgardt (084.D-0818,
VLT/FORS2 & UVES).
– Co-I for
program “Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the making? A UCD search in
compact groups
of galaxies” (082.A-0882,
VLT/FORS2)
PI: Da Rocha, C., Co-I: Mieske, S., Hilker, M., De Oliveira, C. M.,
Ziegler, B.
– PI
for
program “Old Globular
Clusters in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies: Probes of Massive Galaxy
Formation” (080.B-0361, ESO/VLT
VIMOS)
Co-I: Hilker, M., Puzia, T.H., Goudfrooij, P.
– Co-I
for
program “BVRI imaging
of Old Globular Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds” (2007B,
NOAO/SMARTS/CTIO 0.9 m)
PI:
Goudfrooij, P., Co-I: Pessev
Conducted
observations at:
– 8.4m LBT at Mt. Graham (3221m), Arizona
– 8.2m ESO/VLT at Cerro Paranal (2635m), Chile
– 2 m RCC
and 50/70 cm Schmidt Telescopes at the National Astronomical
Observatory “Rozhen”
(NAO – Rozhen) Telescope, Bulgaria
– 60 cm
Cassegrain at the Astronomical Obseravtory Belogradchik,
Bulgaria
Data
reduction and analysis:
– Large Binocular Telescope (LUCI1/2, MODS)
– Hubble Space Telescope (ACS,
WFPC2)
– ESO
Very Large Telescope (FORS1/2, VIMOS, UVES, SINFONI)
– NAO–Rozhen (Bulgaria)
Astronomical software packages and
programming
experience:
– IRAF, gnuplot, R, baolab, SExtractor, octave
– Python, Shell (bash, tcsh), LaTeX, C/C++
Operating systems expertise:
– LINUX, Mac OSX, Windows