(My name in Runes / Runer)

[Yes, where I come from we speak funny too!!..... ...... ..... and have a love for 'Nisser'!!! ]

Marianne Vestergaard

Freja Fellow, Marie Curie Fellow, and Associate Professor ("Lektor")

Dark Cosmology Centre
The Niels Bohr Institute
Copenhagen University
Juliane Maries Vej 30
2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Phone: +45 35 32 59 09
Fax: +45 35 32 06 17

Email: vester 'at' dark-cosmology.dk

Research Interests:

Masses Determinations of Central Black Holes in Active Galaxies and Quasars - various methods
Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Bulges at High Redshift
Physics of the Quasar Broad Line Region (Spectroscopy)
Imaging and Spectroscopy of Active Galactic Nuclei
Abundances in High-Redshift Universe and its Chemical Evolution
Gas fueling of Active Galaxies and Quasars
Stellar populations of black hole host galaxies
Iron Emission from Active Galaxies
Dichotomy of Radio-loudness in Quasars

Professional Background:

Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, since 2009
Tufts University, 2007 - 2009
University of Arizona, 2003 - 2007
Ohio State University, 1999 - 2003
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 1999

Current Students and Postdocs:

Sandra Raimundo - Postdoc (September 2015+)
Jens Juel Jensen - Ph.D. student (September 2013 - February 2017)
Daniel Lawther - Ph.D. student (September 2014 - August 2017)
Oliver Damkjær - Master's Student (currently on leave)
Maria Hammerstrøm - Master's student, Nordlys Exchange
Maria Fevre Vestergaard Knudsen - Master's Student
Sebastian Ollikainen - Master's Student
Sissel Høffner - Bachelor student
Anders Vang - Bachelor student
Sidse Lærke Lolk - Bachelor student
Maria Guardiola Munoz - Bachelor student
Rand Mudhaffar Ibrahim Sawa Tuma - Bachelor student

Past Students and Postdocs/collaborators:

Postdocs:

Kevin (Jun Yi) Koay - October 2013 -- October 2016 (Now Postdoctoral Fellow at ASIAA, Taiwan)

Postdoctoral collaborators:
Kelly Denney (DARK Fellow; Marie Curie Fellow) - January 2011 -- Sept 2013
Margrethe Wold - (Marie Curie Fellow) -- 2011-12

Research Assistants:
Daniel Lawther, MSc - 2013

PhD Students:
Anthea King - November 2012 - December 2015 (co-supervised, double-degree with Univ. of Queeensland, Australia) (Now postdoc in Melbourne w/Webster)
Ece Kilerci Eser - November 2010 - October 2014 (now postdoc in Taiwan with Dr. Tomo Goto, August 2016 ->)

Master's Students:
Amanda Larssen - 2013-2016
Maren Malling - 2015-2016
Anna Zahl - 2014-2015
Troels Paarup - 2012-2013
Daniel Lawther - 2012-2013
Jens Juel Jensen - 2011-2012

Bachelor Students:
Christian Michelsen - 2016 (co-supervised w/Harmark)
Mikkel Tang - 2016 (co-supervised w/Raimundo)
Lars Lund Thomsen - 2016
Sarah Chase - 2016 (visiting student from Berkeley)
Oliver Damkjær - 2015
Maren Malling - 2014
Rasmus Hjorth - 2014
Kim Kobusch Simonsen - 2013
Mikkel Theiss Kristensen - 2013
Lukas Svarre Engedal - 2013
Thorbjørn S. Nielsen - 2012
Louise Dyregård Nielsen - 2011
Daniel Lawther - co-supervised; 2010-2011
Troels Paarup - co-supervised; 2010-2011
Morten Schmidt - co-supervised; 2010-2011

Funded Projects:

DFF - 4002-00275: Improving Supermassive Black Holes as Cosmic Probes
Duration: September 2014 - August 2018 ; DFF/FNU funded;
Villum-Kahn-Rasmussen Blok-stipend (2013-2015): "Black Hole Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array"

Non-Astronomy Links:

Out of Date Publication Pages:

Publications (Updates ended summer 2007) Recent Preprints (Out of Date)

Note: This page is under constant construction...... (More to come...)

vester 'at' dark-cosmology.dk.

Last updated 03-12-16