Short Curriculum Vitae

Accademic career (since PhD)

from 01.10.2011: Associate Professor Chalmers University (Sweden) and ALMA Nordic ARC director, Onsala Space Observatory

01.01.2009 - present: Emmy Noether Group leader (Assistant Prof.) at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy, Bonn University (Germany)

16.07.2007 - 31.12.2008: University staff (Akademisher Rat) at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy, Bonn University (Germany)

01.02.2005 - 01.02.2007: Marie Curie Fellow at Jodrell Bank Observatory, Manchester (U.K.)

01.03.2004 - 21.03.2004: Visiting researcher at Harvard-Smithsonian Institute in Boston (U.S.A.)

15.01.2003 - 15.01.2005: Research Associate at Cornell University, Ithaca (U.S.A.)

2008: Emmy Noether Fellowship Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2007: EURYI (European Young Investigtor) Award nomination by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2007: EURYI Award nomination by Swedish research council

2004: Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) Christiaan Huygens science-prize Nomination for best Ph.D. thesis research 1999-2003 (1 of 6)

01.01.2003 - 01.01.2004: Recipient of the Niels Stensen Stipendium

14.11.2002: Cum Laude (Highest Honours) PhD thesis at Leiden University

2010 - present: Member European SKA Science Working Group

2010 - present: co-chair IAU conference (Maser Astrophysics)

2010 - present: co-I of Herschel open time project (Planetary Nebulae)

2010 - present: co-I of MeerKAT Galactic Plane survey key project

2009 - present: Member of eMERLIN legacy management board and technical workgroup

2009: ESO fellowship selection committee

2008 - present: PI of succesful eMERLIN legacy project: Pulsar Astrometry

2008 - present: co-PI of succesful eMERLIN legacy project: Massive Star Formation

2008 - present: co-I ASTRONET ARTIST project

2007 - present: co-management German ALMA Regional Center

2007: eSMA evolved stars science coordinator

2004 - present: Referee/Programme Committee for several telescopes

2004 - present: Referee for most major journals incl. Science

2010 - present: Supervisor MSc student (Franz Kirsten; AIfA Bonn)

2010 - present: Supervisor PhD students (Marcello Ferreira and Andres Perez; AIfA Bonn)

2008 - present: Supervisor PhD student (Gabriele Surcis; AIfA Bonn)

2008 - present:Organiser and tutor at CASA workshops

2007 - present: Lecture series 'Practical Radio Interferometry' at Bonn University

2007 - present: co-supervisor PhD student (Nikta Amiri, Leiden Observatory)

2007 - present: close involvement in supervision PhD student (Kalle Torstensson, Leiden Observatory)