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Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie (Universitaet Bonn)
Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (Uni. Bonn)
Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie (Universitaet Bonn) Research interests: Gravitational lensing, Quasar structure, Cosmology, Polarisation
Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie (Universitaet Bonn) Research interests: Gravitational lensing, Quasar structure, Cosmology, Polarisation
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Dr. Dominique Sluse
Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie (Universitaet Bonn)
Research interests: Gravitational lensing, Quasar
structure, Cosmology, Polarisation
I am currently post-doctoral researcher at the Argelander Institut für Astronomie of the University of Bonn. In my scientific work, I am using gravitational lensing (strong and micro-lensing) as a tool to make progresses in three different research fields: Cosmology; Dark matter content of galaxies; Structure of quasars and active galactic nucleii. I am also interested in the development of new techniques to tackle astrophysical problems. More detailed information on my research can be found in my Research page.
Soon after the start of my PhD thesis with Jean Surdej at the University of Liege, I received an ESO Studentship to pursue my PhD at ESO Chile under the supervision of Damien Hutsemékers. During those years I discovered the joy of working in world-class observatory and learning the subtilities of observation at the New Technology Telescope in La Silla. I spend my research time between the study of AGNs and of gravitational lenses through imager, spectrographs and Wollaston prisms. While I was carrying a polarimetric survey of quasars I discovered the lensed quasar J1131-1231. In April 2005, I defended my PhD thesis entitled Quasar pairs and gravitational lenses: Observational study and observational applications. In June 2005, I started my first postdoc at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique (LASTRO) of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with Dr. Frederic Courbin and George Meylan. I spent most of my research time collaborating to the launch of the COSMOGRAIL monitoring project, and to study various gravitationally lensed systems. In September 2008, I started to work as a Humboldt Fellow at the Astronomisches Rechen Institut (ARI) of University of Heidelberg, in the group of Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganss. During that time I strengthened my expertise in cosmological microlensing. I developed microlensing as a tool to study the broad line region in AGNs and obtained the first measurement of the BLR size from microlensing monitoring. I stayed at ARI until June 2011. At that time, I have been awarded a DFG grant (SL 172/1-1) for a project entitled New methods for probing dark matter in galaxies with gravitational lensing.
email: dsluse at astro . uni-bonn . de
email: dsluse (at) astro . uni-bonn . de
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Contact:
Dr. Dominique Sluse
Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie (Universitaet Bonn)
Auf dem Huegel 71, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +49-(0)228 735044
email: dsluse at astro . uni-bonn . de