6 July 1952 |
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born - Voorbrug , The Netherlands |
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married - three children: 15/7/1990, 1/2/1992, 14/9/1994 |
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Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteP.O. Box 800NL - 9700 AV Groningen |
20 June 1969 |
16yr |
Grammar School Diploma HBS-B |
10 Dec 1972 |
20yr |
Candidates Diploma (Bachelor's Degree) at Leiden University in Astronomy including Physics and Mathematics |
Aug 1973 - Dec1975 |
21yr |
Employed (part-time) at Leiden Sterrewacht, teaching Assistantship, Astronomy for undergraduate students |
1 Dec 1975: |
23yr |
MA Astronomy (major) and Physics (minor) at Leiden University, Sterrewacht Leiden |
Jan 1976 - Dec1978 |
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Employed by the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.) for my Ph.D. at the Sterrewacht, Leiden |
31 Jan 1979 |
26yr |
Ph.D. degree at the Sterrewacht, Leiden; title thesis:``Radio Investigations of Clusters of Galaxies'', promotor Prof. Dr. H. van der Laan |
Jan 1979 - Aug 1979 |
26yr |
Postdoctoral Fellowship position at Sterrewacht, Leiden |
Sep 1979 - Apr 1984 |
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Postdoctoral Fellowship at European Southern Observatory (ESO), first in Geneva, later in Munich.Chairman ESO working groups supervising the development of Munich Image Data Analysis System (MIDAS) |
May 1984 - Apr 1988 |
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Postdoctoral position at the Kapteyn Lab. Groningen.Resident and Support Astronomer at The Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma. Dutch representative during the building-up phase of the new observatory.Member La Palma User committee (equivalent of ESO's Scientific Technical Committee -STC) |
Jan 1988 - Dec 1990 |
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Associated to ESO-Garching to manage the completion and the scientific evaluation of the ESO Lauberts-Valentijn (ESO-LV) project. |
Oct 1990 - Oct 1998 |
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Scientist A position at the Laboratory for Space Research (SRON), Groningen.Member ISO Calibration Working Group European Space Agency (ESA)mini-sabbatical at Instituto Astrophysica Canarias, Tenerife 3 month 19931 year stay at ESA ground station VILSPA- Madrid 1995-1996 |
Oct 1998 - today |
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Nationale Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie (NOVA) research school position at Kapteyn Astronomical Institutehead OmegaCEN datacenterResearcher 1 / Research Manager 1 |
Dec 2005-today1 April 2009- today |
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Bijzonder Hoogleraar Astronomische Informatietechnologie - Faculteit Wis en Natuurkunde , RuGCoordinator Target |
Leading the Target
project at the Donald Smith Centre for Information
Technology which supports the development of science
operations
for very large data projects, involving various groups of
the
University of Groningen NOVA
programme
manager
for
the
Calibration
and
the
Data
reduction
of
OmegaCAM - a one square degree wide
field imager
for the VLT
Survey Telscope (VST) at
Paranal, Chile, which started operations in
2011 Coordinator
of Astro-WISE
an
European network linking National datacenters involved in
astronomical
wide field imaging. AstroWISE is on-going programme which
started as an
European Research and Development programme for the data
reduction and
dissemination of wide field image data (EU FP5 - RTD)
Co-PI of
KIDS - a 1500 Square degree ESO
Public
Survey using OmegaCAM
at the
VLT Survey Telescope Coordination the
National Science Ground Segment contribution to the Euclid
satelite Member
of RuG
ICT - strategy committee co-PI of the
VIKING Survey at the VISTA telescope
Co-I of
various OmegaCAM programmes OmegaWhite
and
the VISTA UltraVISTA
public Survey
Co-I on
the Hubble Space Telescope Coma
Legacy Survey
Member
of ESA's Science Study Team for the Euclid mission in the
Cosmic Vision
programme- until 2010
Partner
of
the Lofar Radio Telescope
project
Board member, NL
representative and partner in the European Virtual
Observatory