---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Faculty: Prof. dr. Leon Koopmans ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current PhD Students: 2008 - 2012 Oscar Antunano-Vaquero Topic: Strong Lensing Through N-body Simulations 2009 - 2013 Chiara Spiniello Topic: Integral Field Spectroscopy of Strong Lenses 2011 - 2015 Harish Vedantham Topic: Novel observing modes with LOFAR/SKA 2012 - 2016 TBD (funded) Topic: Galactic FG and Physics and impact on EoR 21-cm observations Current Postdocs: 2010 - 2013 Panos Labropoulos Project: EoR 21-cm signal extraction from the LOFAR data 2011 - 2014 Soobash Daiboo Project: 3D Ionospheric effects on low-frequency wide-field observations 2012 - 2015 TBD (funded) Project: ... GPU Programmer: 2011 - 2013 Vamsi Krishna Veligatla Project: GPU programming EoR Cluster BSc Students: 2011 Sander Bus Project: Power-spectra of lens anomalies and galaxy mass distributions 2011-12 Ronniy Joseph Project: Optimal array confifurations of SKA for 21-cm observations 2011-12 Robin Kooistra Project: Numerical simulations of lens anomalies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Former PhD Students: 2006 - 2010 Panos Labropoulos Topic: EoR 21-cm signal extraction Graduate 16 Sep. 2010 (Promotor) (now: Kapteyn/ASTRON) from the LOFAR data 2006 - 2010 Vibor Jelic Topic: Foreground contamination for the EoR Graduated 7 May 2010 (co-Promotor) (now: ASTRON) 2006 - 2010 Simona Vegetti Topic: Non-Parametric Strong Lensing (now: MIT, Papallardo Fellow) & CDM Substructure Graduated 26 Mar. 2010 (Promotor) 2004 - 2009 Alicia Berciano-Alba Topic: Lensing by clusters & Flux-ratio Anomalies (now: ASTRON) (Jointly with dr. M. Garrett at JIVE). Graduated 9 Nov. 2009 (Promotor) 2005 - 2009 Matteo Barnabe Topic: Combining Lensing & Stellar Dynamics. Graduated 27 Mar. 2009 (co-Promotor) (now: Stanford, KIPAC Fellow) 2005 - 2009 Rajat Thomas Topic: Reionization Simulations for LOFAR Graduated 20 March 2009 (co-Promotor) (now: CITA Fellow) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Former Post-docs: 2006 - 2010 Oliver Czoske Project: 2D Stellar Kinematics of Lens Galaxies (now: Univ. of Vienna) from VLT VIMOS-IFU data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Post-docs: Associated via LOFAR EoR Key-Science Project Geraint Harker - Signal Extraction Algorithms for the EoR - Now at Boulder Colorado Gianni Bernardi - Observations of the diffuse emission from the MW - Now at the CfA/Harvard Sarod Yattawata - Interferometer Calibration Vishhambhar Pandey - Data Calibration Pipelines ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------