{"id":2,"date":"2016-02-01T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-02-01T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T09:43:19","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An astronomer and a mechanical engineer. Interested in observational astronomy, Very high energy gamma-ray astronomy, Relativistic jet phenomena, Extragalactic objects and Blazars. Trying to combine technical and administrative skills from practical engineering with the research and computer skills to progress in achieving highest goals in academic world.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><strong>Contact details<\/strong><br \/>\nTel: +358 2 333 8946<br \/>\nEmail: vafara@utu.fi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education and degrees awarded <\/strong><br \/>\nMaster of Science in Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014, University of Turku, FI-20014, Finland<br \/>\nBachelor of Science in Mechanical engineering, Faculty of Mechanical engineering, 2005, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current position<\/strong><br \/>\nPh.D. student in astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Finland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualifications and skills<\/strong><br \/>\nExtensive experience in Optical observation.<br \/>\nExtensive experience in X-ray point source data reduction.<br \/>\nExperienced in VHE \u03b3-ray data reduction.<br \/>\nExperienced in Optical Spectroscopic data reduction.<br \/>\nExperienced in Optical Polarization data reduction.<br \/>\nExperienced in Optical and NIR imaging data reduction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linguistic skills<\/strong><br \/>\nEnglish (Fluent)<br \/>\nFinnish (Basic)<br \/>\nFarsi (Native)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Memberships<\/strong><br \/>\nMajor Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope collaboration<br \/>\nCherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) collaboration<br \/>\nTuorla Blazar Monitoring program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research-related professional service<\/strong><br \/>\nLOC member, CTA meeting 2015, Turku, Finland, 4-8 May 2015<br \/>\nLOC assistant of European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS 2013) conference, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 8-13 July 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An astronomer and a mechanical engineer. Interested in observational astronomy, Very high energy gamma-ray astronomy, Relativistic jet phenomena, Extragalactic objects and Blazars. Trying to combine technical and administrative skills from practical engineering with the research and computer skills to progress in achieving highest goals in academic world. Contact details Tel: +358 2 333 8946 Email: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/hello-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/vafara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}