Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

PhD Radio and Space Science
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2001)
Thesis title: Radio Studies of Circumnuclear Gas in Active Galaxies

MSc Electrical Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (1996)
Specialization in optoelectronics and technical mathematics


WORK EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico (2005-present)
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Postdoctorate, California Institute of Technology (2004-2005)
Department of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Owens Valley Radio Observatory group, Pasadena, CA

Postdoctorate, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (2001-2004)
Array Operations Center, Socorro, NM



INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS (after 2005)
On the Origin of OH Megamasers
April, 2008, NRAO colloquium, Socorro, NM

Stirring the Embers: High Resolution Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
September 2007, ASTRON/JIVE colloquium, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

SKA Implementation Roadmap for Low Frequencies (10-300 MHz)
September 2007, Invited talk, Chicago-3 Community Workshop: Implementation of the SKA Program for the U.S. Community, Washington DC

VLBI Observations of GRB Afterglows – a Sensitivity Quest
September 2007, Invited talk, Frontiers of Astronomy with the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Washington DC

RFI Mitigation at the Long Wavelength Array
July 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
October 2006, UNM

Beaming in on Megamasers
October 2006, Astrophysics lunch talk, UNM

The Long Wavelength Array
September 2006, 8th EVN Symposium, Torun, Poland

Megamasers
September 2006, Invited review talk 8th EVN Symposium, Torun, Poland

Very Long Baseline Interferometry
June, 2006, Invited lecture, Tenth Summer Synthesis Imaging School, UNM

The Long Wavelength Array
19 May, 2006, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Starburst and AGN activity: How can we quantify the connection?
1 December, 2005, New Mexico Tech.