Curriculum Vitae
Peter's CV
Contact information:
Oskar Klein Centre
Dept. of Astronomy
Stockholm University
SE-10691 AlbaNova
Stockholm
Sweden
Email:
Webpage:
www.dark-cosmology.dk/~pela
| Full name: | Peter Laursen |
| Nationality: | Danish |
| Date of birth: | June 24, 1975 |
| Spouse: | Marie Lehmann |
| Children: | Sigurd Sinus Lehmann Laursen |
| Paternity leave: | March 2009 – June 2009 |
| Position: | Postdoctoral researcher |
Academic record
| 2010 - 2012: | Postdoc at the Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, on a grant for independent research from the Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation. |
| 2007 - 2010: | Ph.D. student in astrophysics, Dark Cosmology Centre (Dark), Copenhagen. Three months were spent at The Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching. |
| 2004 - 2006: | M.Sc. student in astrophysics, Dark (average grade 13/13). |
| 1999 - 2002: | Undergraduate student in physics/mathematics, Roskilde University Centre, Roskilde. |
Research fields
(more here)| Numerically/theoretically: | Radiative transfer Lyman α theory, line formation Dust Reionization Galaxy formation Compton scattering in gamma-ray bursts |
| Observationally: | Emission from damped Lyα absorbers Gamma-ray burst afterglows Fundamental parameters for eclipsing binaries |
Publications
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Outreach
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Attended conferences
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Invited talks
| 2010: | Interpreting the Lyman α line, Nordic Astrophysics 2010, Visby, Sweden |
| 2010: | Modeling Lyα emission from high-z galaxies, Lyα micro-workshop, AlbaNova, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2009: | Lyman α radiative transfer in the high-redshift, dusty Universe, Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden |
Acted as a referee for:
| Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Attended summer schools
| 2007: | NOT Observing Summer School, 1 week, NOT, La Palma, Spain |
| 2007: | Radiative Transfer and Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics, 2 weeks, ITA, Oslo, Norway |
| 2006: | Supercomputational Cosmology, 4 weeks, AIP, Potsdam, Germany |
| 2004: | The Birth, Life and Death of Stars, 2 weeks, ASA, Alpbach, Austria |
Coding skills and software
| Fortran IDL IRAF Mathematica csh html |
Languages
| Danish (mother tongue) English (fluently) Swedish/Norwegian (moderately) German (moderately) Spanish (moderately) |