European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern
Hemisphere
Jens T. Knudstrup
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I work as
software engineer at the European Organisation for Astronomical
Research in the Southern Hemisphere developing software for the Very Large Telescope project, the La Silla
Observatory and for the ALMA
Project.
My main
responsibility is development of software to control the instruments mounted at
the VLT telescopes. The work consists of following up on existing software for
instruments in operation and designing and implementing software for new
instruments. In addition to colloborate with institutes, which build
instruments for the VLT according to the ESO/VLT standards.
Before that I
worked ~8 years (August 1999 – September 2007) for the Data Flow System, in the Data Management
Division, where I was working within the framework of the Science Archive Facility. In this function I was
carrying out many different tasks, but my main project was the development of
software for the Next Generation
Archive System.
Before this,
I worked within the framework of the VLT Common Software,
developing software to control astronomical instruments from March 1994 till
July 1999.
If you want
to know more about my professional life, you may have a look at my CV.
I was born in
Denmark in Odense, but lived most of my
life in Hjørring
in the northern part of the country. I studied in Aalborg/Denmark at Aalborg University and graduated as Master's of
Science in 1993 from CERN in
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