Education
PhD Radio and Space Science, 2001
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
MSc Electrical Engineering, 1996
Specialization optoelectronics and technical mathematics
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Work Experience
Adjunct Astronomer, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (2007-present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy (2005-present)
University of New Mexico
Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (2004-2005)
California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Researcher, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (2001-2004)
Professional Activities
Member American Astronomical Society
Member Sigma Xi Research Society
Member Low Frequency Radio Astronomy committee
(working for the future of US radio astronomy)
Member of the Physics and Astronomy graduate student committee (UNM)
Organizer of the Low Frequency Software Workshop, Chicago, 2008
Referee for various astrophysical journals
RFI coordinator for the Long Wavelength Array
Member of Organizing Committee of the 2006 Synthesis Imaging School
Co-editor of the "Proceedings of he 5th EVN Symposium"
Educational Experience
Physics and Astrophysics classes at sophomore up through senior levels
Research advisor for astrophysics undergraduate and graduate students
(including Fonda Day, Robert Edmonds, Thuso Simon, Anthony Ortiz, Dave Martin)
REU Student Advisor
Invited talks and seminars (since 2004)
- On the Origin of OH Megamasers, Sep 2008, UNM, NM
- The Long Wavelength Array, Aug 2008, URSI, Chicago, IL
- Status of the LWA Project, Aug 2008, Low Frequency Software Workshop, Chicago, IL
- On the Origin of OH Megamasers, Apr 2008, NRAO Colloquium, Socorro, NM
- Stirring the Embers: High Resolution Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows,
Sep 2007, ASTRON/JIVE Colloquium, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
- SKA Implementation Roadmap for Low Frequencies (10-300 MHz), Sep 2007, invited talk
Chicago-3 Community Workshop: Implementation of the SKA Program for the US
Community, Washington DC
- VLBI Observations of GRB Afterglows - A Sensitivity Quest, Sep 2007, invited talk,
Frontiers of Astronomy with the World's Largest Radio Telescope, Washington DC
- RFI Mitigation at the Long Wavelength Array, Jul 2007, invited talk, URSI, Ottawa, Canada
- Astrophysical Masers and Their Environments, March 2007, UNM
- OH Megamasers as Extragalactic Diagnostics, March 2007, invited talk,
IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs, Australia
- Astrophysical lasers, Oct 2006, UNM
- Beaming in on Megamasers, Oct 2006, UNM.
- Megamasers, Sep 2006, Review talk in the 8th EVN Symposium, Torun, Poland.
- The Long Wavelength Array, Sep 2006, 8th EVN Symposium, Torun, Poland.
- Very Long Baseline Interferometry, Jun 2006, UNM, Synthesis Imaging School.
- The Long Wavelength Array, May 2006, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
- Starburst and AGN activity: How can we quantify the connection? Dec 2005, NM Tech.
- Astrophysical lasers – lasers in the sky, Dec 2005, UNM
- OH megamasers and their host galaxies, Apr 2005, UNM.
- OH megamasers – a tool to probe nuclear structure and dynamics in mergers, Sep 2004,
NRAO.
- Probing the nuclei of merging galaxies with OH megamasers, Apr 2004, University of
Maryland.
- Circumnuclear gas in AGN and starbursts, Feb 2004, OVRO group, Caltech.