Personal
Details
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Date
of birth:
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1981-11-18
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Nationality:
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Swedish
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Address
(work):
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European Southern Observatory
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Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
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D-85748 Garching bei München
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GERMANY
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Telephone
(work):
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+49
89 3200 6926
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Fax
(work):
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+49
89 3200 6703
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E-mail:
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knilsson
[at] eso.org
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Qualifications:
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2007
PhD
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Dark
Cosmology Centre,
Copenhagen
University
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"The
Lyman-alpha Emission
Line as a
Cosmological Tool"
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2004
MSc
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Lund
Observatory, Lund University
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"Multi-wavelength
analysis of Lyalpha-emitting
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high-redshift
galaxies"
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Education & Employment
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1997
- 2000
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Katedralskolan,
Lund
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Natural
science program - bilingual education
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2000
- 2004
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Lund
University
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Natural
science program in physics
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2004
- 2007
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Dark
Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen University
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PhD
studies
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2007
- 2009
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Max-Planck-Institut
für Astronomie, Heidelberg
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Post-doc
fellowship
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2009
- present
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Space Telescope Coordinating Facility & ESO, Germany
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Hubble Astronomer
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Scholarships and prizes
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2000
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Astronomy
prize of Katedralskolan, Lund
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2004
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Malmö
Stads Jubileumsfond stipend
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Conferences and summer schools
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February
2005
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"Surveying
the Universe" - Winter school in Obergurgl, Austria
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May
2005
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Danish
Physical Society Annual Meeting, Nyborg, Denmark
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August
2005
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"Open
Questions in Cosmology: the First Billion Years", Garching, Germany
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September
2005
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"The
dark and the luminous sides of the formation of structures" - Summer
school in Novigrad, Croatia
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December
2005
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"Cosmology
2005: A reality check", Copenhagen, Denmark
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April
2006
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NOT
colloquium, NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Spain
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August
2006
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"Cosmic
Frontiers", Durham, United Kingdom
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October
2006
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"At
the Edge of the Universe",
Sintra, Portugal
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March
2007
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"Origin
of Galaxies",
Obergurgl, Austria
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April
2007
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"First
Stars Workshop",
Copenhagen, Denmark
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July
2008
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"Far
Away: Light in the Young Universe at Redshifts beyond Three", Paris,
France
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October 2008
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"Understanding Lyman-alpha Emitters", Heidelberg,
Germany
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July 2009
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"The Lyman-alpha Universe", Paris,
France
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October 2010
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"Science with HST III", Venice,
Italy
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Observations
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December
2004
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5
nights at NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma.
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January
2005
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PI
of 6h service mode observations with VLT/FORS1
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April
2005
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4
nights at NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma. |
April
2006
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PI
of 4 nights at NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma. |
September
2006
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PI
of 13h of service mode observations with VLT/VIMOS
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April
2007
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PI
of 4 nights at NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma. |
November
2007
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PI
of 33 hours at ESO-2.2m/WFI, Chile
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February
2010
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PI
of 12 hours of service mode observations with VLT/VIMOS
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