- Dr. Tuomas Kangas
- Finnish Centre for Astrophysics with ESO, FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland
- ORCID: 0000-0002-5477-0217
- tjakan@utu.fi
Education
- 05/2017: PhD, astronomy, University of Turku, Finland: Observational studies of core-collapse supernova progenitors and their environments. Supervised by Prof. Seppo Mattila
- 11/2012: MSc, astronomy, University of Turku, Finland
Employment
- 09/2022– FINCA Fellow, University of Turku, Finland (current position)
- 08/2020–08/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 06/2017–07/2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 01/2013–07/2014 Student Support Astronomer, Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Spain
- 06/2010–12/2012 Research Assistant, University of Turku, Finland (part-time)
Publications
Since 2013, I have 10 refereed first-author publications (2 in ApJ, 3 in A&A and 5 in MNRAS). In total I have authored 51 refereed publications including five in the high-impact journals Science, Nature and Nature Astronomy. These publications have a total of 6559 citations as of Aug 6 2024, with an h-index of 27. In addition, I have authored over 100 circulars, telegrams and other non-refereed astronomy notices.
Supervision experience
- 2023 (on-going): MSc thesis (primary supervisor), astronomy, University of Turku
- 2018: MSc thesis (co-supervisor), astronomy, University of Turku
Teaching experience
- 2022, 2023: Observational Techniques Using the NOT (7 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; lectures, supervision of observations and group projects
- 2023: Spectroscopic Diagnostics in Astrophysics, (8 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; lecture
- 2021, 2022: Introductory Astronomy for Engineers, (7.5 ECTS) BSc level, astronomy; lectures
- 2014, 2016: Methods of Observational Astrophysics I (6 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; lectures, supervision of observations and group projects
- 2016: Methods of Observational Astrophysics II (5 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; group supervision
- 2016: Project Work (3 ECTS) BSc level, physics; supervision of a group project
- 2014: Stellar Structure and Evolution (8 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; exercise supervision and grading
Other experience and contributions
- Observing experience:
- ~60 nights at the Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Spain
- 10 nights at the New Technology Telescope, La Silla, Chile
- Service-mode observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and Gemini Observatory
- Peer review of several articles for Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Observing time allocation experience:
- Hubble Space Telescope: Time Allocation Committee, external panelist (Cycles 30 and 31)
- Hubble Space Telescope: Time Allocation Committee, Panel Support Scientist (Cycles 27 and 28)
- European Southern Observatory: Observing Programmes Committee, panelist (P112, P113, P114)
- Gemini Observatory and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array: distributed peer review
- Scientific Organizing Committee membership in the Space Telescope Science Institute Spring Symposium 2019: “Deaths and Afterlives of Stars”
- Contributed talks and/or posters in 17 international conferences between 2012 and 2024
- 2 invited seminar talks outside my place of employment
- Skills in data reduction of optical and infrared data; statistical and numerical methods and light-curve modelling; interpretation of photometric and spectroscopic data; programming in Fortran, Python and C
Successful observing time proposals as primary investigator
- European Southern Observatory, P114 (2024): What powers the most luminous hydrogen-rich supernovae?
- Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cycle 20 (2019): GRB150314A: the first GRB hosted by an AGN or New GRB Physics?
- Gemini Observatory, Semester 2018A: Completing the z < 0.5 LGRB Host Metallicity Sample
- Nordic Optical Telescope, Periods 51 and 52 (2015-2016): Environments of core-collapse supernovae in interacting galaxies
- Nordic Optical Telescope, Period 46 (2012-2013): The population and progenitors of core-collapse SNe in starburst galaxies
Memberships in international collaborations
- 2022– NOT Unbiased Transient Survey 2 (NUTS2), European collaboration for transient follow-up using the Nordic Optical Telescope
- 2019– ENGRAVE, large collaboration for follow-up of electromagnetic transients linked to gravitational-wave events
- 2020–2023 Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), large collaboration for transient discovery, classification and follow-up
- 2016–2017 NOT Unbiased Transient Survey (NUTS), the previous iteration of NUTS2
- 2013–2017 Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO), collaboration for transient classification and follow-up using the New Technology Telescope at the European Southern Observatory