Welcome to my website. This is the 2nd version, now featuring nicer
colors and garamond fonts. However, I still only know how to make a
webpage in .html, so the most fancy stuff you'll find is probably
images which are also hyperlinks.
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I am a Ph.D. student in astrophysics at the
DARK Cosmology Centre,
Niels Bohr Institute,
working under the supervision of
Anja C. Andersen and.
Jesper Sommer-Larsen.
The main emphasis of my studies is focused on how light, in particular
Lyman α,
travels through the Universe. As it turns out, dust is a very important
factor in this context.
Although dust sounds as the most boring subject with which you could ever
concern yourself (next to banking, investment and insurance), it is in fact
interesting, at least due to two features:
Dust grains stick together to form rocks which, in turn, form planets
which are probably needed to form life. And
life is quite
interesting.
Dust absorbs and scatters light, thus severely affecting all observations.
To interpret correctly what we observe, it is important to know the
properties of the dust lying between us and the object. Particularly
in the very distant Universe, our knowledge on this is limited. Since
the very distant Universe also means the very early Universe,
knowing how
the light travels through the dusty gas enables us, among other things,
to learn about how galaxies formed. Galaxies are the fundamental building
blocks of our Universe, and
the Universe is also quite
interesting.
More about my research can be found
here. It is a continuation of my
master studies, in which I investigated how
light moves through dustless gas in galaxies (Lyα resonant
scattering).
Although my research is mostly numerical, i.e. it takes place
inside a computer (and my head), once in a while I have been lucky enough
to have the opportunity to go observing, among other things the afterglows of
gamma-ray bursts.
Below are some nice pictures of beautiful objects of the southern sky, taken
with the Danish 1.54m telescope at
La Silla, Chile,
when the weather conditions did not allow me to do scientific observations.
Astronomy picture of the day
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This page was last updated on November 18., 2009.
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