CV of Kim K. Nilsson

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Personal Details

Date of birth:
1981-11-18
Nationality:
Swedish
Address (work):
European Southern Observatory

Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2

D-85748 Garching bei München

GERMANY
Telephone (work):
+49 89 3200 6926
Fax (work):
+49 89 3200 6703
E-mail:
knilsson [at] eso.org


Qualifications:

2007 PhD
Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen University

"The Lyman-alpha Emission Line as a Cosmological Tool"
2004 MSc
Lund Observatory, Lund University

"Multi-wavelength analysis of Lyalpha-emitting

high-redshift galaxies"


Education & Employment

1997 - 2000
Katedralskolan, Lund

Natural science program - bilingual education
2000 - 2004
Lund University

Natural science program in physics
2004 - 2007
Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen University

PhD studies
2007 - 2009
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg

Post-doc fellowship
2009 - present
Space Telescope Coordinating Facility & ESO, Germany

Hubble Astronomer


Scholarships and prizes

2000
Astronomy prize of Katedralskolan, Lund
2004
Malmö Stads Jubileumsfond stipend


Conferences and summer schools

February 2005
"Surveying the Universe" - Winter school in Obergurgl, Austria
May 2005
Danish Physical Society Annual Meeting, Nyborg, Denmark
August 2005
"Open Questions in Cosmology: the First Billion Years", Garching, Germany
September 2005
"The dark and the luminous sides of the formation of structures" - Summer school in Novigrad, Croatia
December 2005
"Cosmology 2005: A reality check", Copenhagen, Denmark
April 2006
NOT colloquium, NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Spain
August 2006
"Cosmic Frontiers", Durham, United Kingdom
October 2006
"At the Edge of the Universe", Sintra, Portugal
March 2007
"Origin of Galaxies", Obergurgl, Austria
April 2007
"First Stars Workshop", Copenhagen, Denmark
July 2008
"Far Away: Light in the Young Universe at Redshifts beyond Three", Paris, France
October 2008
"Understanding Lyman-alpha Emitters", Heidelberg, Germany
July 2009
"The Lyman-alpha Universe", Paris, France
October 2010
"Science with HST III", Venice, Italy


Observations

December 2004
5 nights at NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma.
January 2005
PI of 6h service mode observations with VLT/FORS1
April 2005
4 nights at NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma.
April 2006
PI of 4 nights at NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma.
September 2006
PI of 13h of service mode observations with VLT/VIMOS
April 2007
PI of 4 nights at NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma.
November 2007
PI of 33 hours at ESO-2.2m/WFI, Chile
February 2010
PI of 12 hours of service mode observations with VLT/VIMOS

Computing skills
Knowledge of Unix, X-Windows, MS Windows and related software packages. Experience with IDL, SExtractor, MIDAS, MPIAphot and other astronomical software packages

Other skills
Chair of SOC and LOC of "Understanding Lyman-alpha Emitters" conference held at MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany in October 2008.



Last updated January 2011