Members of the EHT Collaboration in The Netherlands
The following persons are members of the Event Horizont Telescope (EHT) Collaboration based in The Netherlands.
Associated partners of the BlackHoleCam project are listed here.
Radboud University |
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Brinkerink, Christiaan |
Bronzwaer, Thomas Bronzwaer studies light transport around black holes and is the lead developer of the RAPTOR computer code. This code can produce simulated observations of accreting black holes, and is used by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in its study of supermassive black holes. |
Daas,Jesse Jesse Daas is a PhD student at Radboud University. For the internship completing his graduation he studied the inclusion of fermions in the approach to quantum gravity called Asymptotic Safety. Since then, in his PhD, he has focused on the phenomenology of alternative theories of gravity in relation to observations made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). In his first work during the PhD he constructed solutions to the theory of Quadratic Gravity, a natural and general extension to General Relativity, and described their observational features relevant for the EHT. |
Prof. dr. Falcke, Heino Falcke secured an ERC Synergy Grant for ‘BlackHoleCam’ (2013) to create the first image of a black hole. He succeeded by presenting the iconic image on behalf of the EHT collaboration in 2019.For his pioneering work, Falcke received the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences Medal & 19th Hintze lecturer Univ. Oxford in 2019; the Einstein Medal in 2020; NAS Henry Draper Medal, CASCA Robert M. Petrie Prize Lectureship, and Amaldi Medal in 2021; along with several awards as part of the EHTC. He was appointed Knight in the order of the Netherlands Lion (2016) and is a member of the KNAW (2014). |
Fraga Encinas, Raquel |
Jimenez Rosales, Alejandra |
Dr. Klein Wolt, Marc |
La Bella, Noemi La Bella started her PhD in Astrophysics at the Radboud University in 2020. Under the supervision of Prof. Heino Falcke she researches the collection, calibration, and imaging of supermassive black hole radio observations. |
Dr. Mościbrodzka, Monika |
Olivares-Sanchez, Hector His research interests are general relativity, hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, and especially numerical simulations in these fields. He co-developed the 'Black Hole Accretion Code' (BHAC), used to simulate the behaviour of magnetized plasma on strongly curved space-times. This code was used to create part of the simulation library of the EHT, to help interpretation of the 2019 first image of a black hole shadow. Part of his recent research also consisted in simulating the appearance of other exotic objects, known as boson stars, if observed by the EHT. |
Timmer, Sjoerd |
Dr. van Rossum, Daan |
Vos, Jesse In 2021, he started a PhD in Astrophysics at Radboud University. Under the supervision of Dr. Monika Mościbrodzka he continues to explore the polarimetric and emission signatures of black holes by means of numerical simulations. In 2021 Vos acquired a much sought-after computing grant for 4.5M CPUH on national computing facilities from the Dutch Research Council. |
Wondrak, Michael |
Yfantis, Aristomenis |
Dr. Young, André |
Leiden University |
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Impellizzeri, Violette |
University of Amsterdam |
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Chatterjee, Koushik |
Prof. dr. Markoff, Sera Markoff is professor of theoretical high-energy astrophysics at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, and founding member of the Gravitation and AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA) Centre of Excellence, at the University of Amsterdam. She investigates the extreme processes occurring when material accretes onto compact objects such as black holes, including particle acceleration, and the subsequent emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio to gamma-ray. Markoff has won numerous awards including the top Dutch Research Council personal career grants VIDI and VICI, as well as being named Fellow of the American Physical Society for her work on black holes. She is also a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Markoff is a member of the EHT Collaboration and currently serves as vice-chair of the EHT Science Council, and was the only European panel member atthe EHT press conference in Washington in 2019. Markoff was part of the writing team for Paper I of the Sgr A* release in 2022, and co-coordinates the EHT Multi-wavelength Science Working Group that carried out the accompanying multi-wavelength campaign from ground and space (Paper II). Her group (including then PhD student Koushik Chatterjee, Dr. Gibwa Musoke, and Dr. DooSoo Yoon) also contributed to the modelling in Paper V. |
Mulaudzi, Wanga |
Musoke, Gibwa |
Dr. Porth, Oliver He has worked on a variety of subjects including general relativistic accretion, jet formation- and stability and dynamics of pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) and is most reknown for the solution of the long-standing "sigma-Problem" in PWN. He is lead developer of community codes for astrophysical fluid dynamics and has led community wide code comparison efforts. Oliver Porth is active contributor to the theoretical simulations for the EventHorizonTelescope collaboration. |
Drs. Sosapanta Salas, Leon |
Yoon, Doosoo |
University of Groningen |
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Dr. Hesper, Ronald |
Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) |
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Dr. van Bemmel, Ilse |
Dr. Kettenis, Mark |
Prof. dr. van Langevelde, Huib Jan |
Dr. Small, Des |
Astron |
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Prof. Dr. Dempsey, Jessica |