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Curriculum Vitae - Bram Venemans (PDF)
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Name | Bram Pieter Venemans | Address | Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie |
Date of birth | 20th of June 1977 | | Königstuhl 17 |
Nationality | Dutch | | 69117 Heidelberg |
Email address | venemans AT mpia.de | | Germany |
Telephone | +49 6221 528247 | Fax | +49 6221 528247 |
Home page | http://www.mpia.de/homes/venemans/ | | |
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EDUCATION
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2000-2005 | Ph.D., Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
1999-2000 | M.Phil., Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
1995-1999 | M.Sc., Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
1989-1995 | High School "Spinoza Lyceum", Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Nov 2012 - | Research Staff Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany |
Oct 2011 - Oct 2012 | Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany |
Oct 2008 - Sep 2011 | ESO Fellow at ESO headquarters, Garching bei München, Germany |
Oct 2005 - Sep 2008 | Research Associate at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Jul 2005 - Sep 2005 | Research Associate at the Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
Oct 2000 - Apr 2005 | Ph.D. in astronomy at the Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| Title: Protoclusters associated with distant radio galaxies |
| Promotor: Prof. Dr. G. K. Miley |
Oct 1999 - Jul 2000 | M.Phil. in astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Title: The visibility of short-lived luminous events in dusty environments |
| Supervisor: Dr. A. W. Blain |
Mar 1998 - Aug 1999 | M.Sc. in astronomy at the Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| Title: A cluster of galaxies around a high redshift radio galaxy? |
| Supervisor: Dr. H. J. A. Röttgering |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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• | The most distant quasars and the evolution of massive black holes in the early Universe |
• | The end of the Dark Ages and the Epoch of Reionisation |
• | Star formation and the Interstellar Medium in quasar host galaxies |
• | Galaxy environment of distant active galactic nuclei |
• | Wide field optical and infrared surveys |
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AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
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2008 - 2011 | ESO Fellowship |
1999 | A "Scholarship for Talents" of fl. 36000,- (USD 22000), given by the Minister of Education of the |
| Netherlands to talented undergraduate students in a national, university wide competition. |
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RESEARCH SKILLS
Extensive background in observational cosmology, galaxy formation and
evolution, and formation of large scale structure. Very experienced in
reducing, analysing and interpreting large sets of optical and
infrared imaging and multi-object spectroscopy data. Thorough
knowledge of large survey databases (SDSS, UKIDSS, VISTA,
Pan-Starrs1). Experienced with mm interferometry data from the Plateau
de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array
(ALMA). Extensive expertise in IDL, IRAF, SQL and Latex.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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2014- | Supervisor of Ph.D. student C. Mazzucchelli at MPIA in Heidelberg |
2011-2015 | Supervisor of Ph.D. student E. Bañados at MPIA in Heidelberg |
2007-2011 | Supervisor of Ph.D. student K. Bayliss at the IoA in Cambridge |
2001-2005 | Supervision of six student research projects at Leiden Observatory: |
| "Lyα emission line halos at z ~ 2", R. Berkhout |
| "Subaru wide field imaging of the protocluster 1338-1942 at z = 4.1", H. Intema |
| "An Integral Field Unit search for Lyα emitters", C. van Breukelen |
| "Multi wavelength observations of a protocluster at z = 2.1", N. ter Haar |
| "Characterization of objects near bright stars", C. van Breukelen |
| "A search for Lyα halos at z = 3", S. von Benda-Beckman |
2002-2003 | Teacher of the practical of the astronomy course "Stars" at Leiden Observatory |
2001-2002 | Assistent of the first year practical source "Astronomy lab 1" at Leiden Observatory |
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OBSERVING EXPERIENCE
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2017 | Magellan, Las Campanas, Chile |
2011 & 2014 | ESO NTT, Chile |
2008 | Isaac Newton Telescope 2.5m, La Palma |
2006-2008 | 3 observing runs (including buit-up, commissioning and science verification) with the |
| visitor instrument DAzLE on the ESO VLT, Chile (30 nights in total) |
2006-2008 | 2 observing runs on the ESO VLT, Chile and ESO NTT, Chile |
2004 & 2006 | 2 observing runs on the Isaac Newton Telescope 2.5m, La Palma |
2001-2003 | 9 observing runs on the ESO VLT, Chile and the Keck telescope, Hawaii |
1998 | ESO NTT, Chile |
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Miscellaneous
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• | 70 refereed papers (2706 citations, 15 first author, h-index 30) |
• | Referee for Nature, ApJ, A&A, MNRAS, MNRAS Letters and PASJ |
• | Lead of the VISTA Kilo-Degree Infrared Galaxy survey (VIKING) High Redshift Quasars working group |
• | Co-lead of the Pan-STARRS1 key project 10 "High redshift quasars" |
• | CoI of the VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) and the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Survey (VIDEO) |
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OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
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2001-2004 | Several public lectures for high school students, undergraduate students and |
| amateur astronomers throughout The Netherlands |
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