{"id":23,"date":"2023-11-16T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2025-02-24T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:38:37","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/tjakan\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Dr. Tuomas Kangas<\/li>\n<li>Finnish Centre for Astrophysics with ESO, FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland<\/li>\n<li>ORCID: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5477-0217\">0000-0002-5477-0217<\/a><\/li>\n<li>tjakan@utu.fi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>05\/2017: PhD, astronomy, University of Turku, Finland: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utupub.fi\/handle\/10024\/134456\">Observational studies of core-collapse supernova progenitors and their environments<\/a>. Supervised by Prof. Seppo Mattila<\/li>\n<li>11\/2012: MSc, astronomy, University of Turku, Finland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Employment<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>01\/2025&#8211; Academy Research Fellow, FINCA, University of Turku, Finland (current position)<\/li>\n<li>09\/2022&#8211;12\/2024 FINCA Fellow, University of Turku, Finland<\/li>\n<li>08\/2020&#8211;08\/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden<\/li>\n<li>06\/2017&#8211;07\/2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA<\/li>\n<li>01\/2013&#8211;07\/2014 Student Support Astronomer, Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Spain<\/li>\n<li>06\/2010&#8211;12\/2012 Research Assistant, University of Turku, Finland (part-time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p>Since 2013, I have 10 refereed first-author publications (2 in ApJ, 3 in A&amp;A and 5 in MNRAS). In total I have authored 51 refereed publications including five in the high-impact journals <em>Science, Nature<\/em> and <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em>. These publications have a total of 6559 citations as of Aug 6 2024, with an <em>h<\/em>-index of 27. In addition, I have authored over 100 circulars, telegrams and other non-refereed astronomy notices.<\/p>\n<h3>Supervision experience<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2023 (on-going): MSc thesis (primary supervisor), astronomy, University of Turku<\/li>\n<li>2018: MSc thesis (co-supervisor), astronomy, University of Turku<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Teaching experience<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2022, 2023, 2024: <em>Observational Techniques Using the NOT<\/em> (7 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; lectures, supervision of observations and group projects<\/li>\n<li>2023: <em>Spectroscopic Diagnostics in Astrophysics<\/em>, (8 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; lecture<\/li>\n<li>2021, 2022: <em>Introductory Astronomy for Engineers,<\/em> (7.5 ECTS) BSc level, astronomy; lectures<\/li>\n<li>2014, 2016: <em>Methods of Observational Astrophysics<\/em> I (6 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; lectures, supervision of observations and group projects<\/li>\n<li>2016: <em>Methods of Observational Astrophysics<\/em> II (5 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; group supervision<\/li>\n<li>2016: <em>Project Work <\/em>(3 ECTS) BSc level, physics; supervision of a group project<\/li>\n<li>2014: <em>Stellar Structure and Evolution<\/em> (8 ECTS) MSc level, astronomy; exercise supervision and grading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other experience and contributions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Observing experience:\n<ul>\n<li>~60 nights at the Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Spain<\/li>\n<li>10 nights at the New Technology Telescope, La Silla, Chile<\/li>\n<li>Service-mode observations with the <em>Hubble<\/em> Space Telescope, <em>Chandra<\/em> X-ray Observatory and Gemini Observatory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Peer review of several articles for Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/li>\n<li>Observing time allocation experience:\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hubble<\/em> Space Telescope: Time Allocation Committee, external panelist (Cycles 30 and 31)<\/li>\n<li><em>Hubble<\/em> Space Telescope: Time Allocation Committee, Panel Support Scientist (Cycles 27 and 28)<\/li>\n<li>European Southern Observatory: Observing Programmes Committee, panelist (P112, P113, P114)<\/li>\n<li>Gemini Observatory and Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array: distributed peer review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Organizing Committee membership in the Space Telescope Science Institute Spring Symposium 2019: &#8220;Deaths and Afterlives of Stars&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Contributed talks and\/or posters in 17 international conferences between 2012 and 2024<\/li>\n<li>2 invited seminar talks outside my place of employment<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Successful observing time proposals as primary investigator<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>European Southern Observatory, P114 (2024): <em>What powers the most luminous hydrogen-rich supernovae?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cycle 20 (2019): <em>GRB150314A: the first GRB hosted by an AGN or New GRB Physics?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gemini Observatory, Semester 2018A: <em>Completing the z &lt; 0.5\u00a0LGRB Host Metallicity Sample<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nordic Optical Telescope, Periods 51 and 52 (2015-2016): <em>Environments of core-collapse supernovae in interacting galaxies<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nordic Optical Telescope, Period 46 (2012-2013): <em>The population and progenitors of core-collapse SNe in starburst galaxies<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Memberships in international collaborations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2022&#8211; NOT Unbiased Transient Survey 2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuts2.sn.ie\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">NUTS2<\/a>), European collaboration for transient follow-up using the Nordic Optical Telescope<\/li>\n<li>2019&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrave-eso.org\/\"> ENGRAVE<\/a>, large collaboration for follow-up of electromagnetic transients linked to gravitational-wave events<\/li>\n<li>2020&#8211;2023 Zwicky Transient Facility (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ztf.caltech.edu\/\">ZTF<\/a>), large collaboration for transient discovery, classification and follow-up<\/li>\n<li>2016&#8211;2017 NOT Unbiased Transient Survey (NUTS), the previous iteration of NUTS2<\/li>\n<li>2013&#8211;2017 Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pessto.org\/\">PESSTO<\/a>), collaboration for transient classification and follow-up using the New Technology Telescope at the European Southern Observatory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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