{"id":13,"date":"2023-11-14T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-02-24T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:34:20","slug":"who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I am an Academy Research Fellow and a former FINCA Fellow at <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.utu.fi\/finca\/en\/\">FINCA<\/a> in the University of Turku, Finland, where I got my PhD in 2017. Before that, I worked as a student support astronomer at the Nordic Optical Telescope, and between 2017 and 2022, I was a postdoc in the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, US, and in KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I am interested in the deaths of massive stars in all their varieties, from good old core-collapse supernovae to peculiar superluminous supernovae to gamma-ray bursts. I have studied these events directly and through their locations in their host galaxies. Most of all I&#8217;m interested in connecting these transients to their progenitor stars, and understanding how such stars explode and what properties they have prior to explosion. I am also interested (and involved) in the search and follow-up of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave transients, such as kilonovae. Within this field, I have experience of observations, statistical modeling and population studies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I also believe in a healthy work-life balance. In my free time I read books about history, fantasy or sci-fi, paint miniatures, play tabletop games, fiddle with my vintage LEGO collection and, when possible, hike in the mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Academy Research Fellow and a former FINCA Fellow at FINCA in the University of Turku, Finland, where I got my PhD in 2017. Before that, I worked as a student support astronomer at the Nordic Optical Telescope, and between 2017 and 2022, I was a postdoc in the Space Telescope Science Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6735,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}