Our first She’s an Astronomer translation posted at the same time as the interview! Thanks Els.
Els’s Interview in English.
Els Baeten (ElisabethB) woont in België, in de oude universiteitsstad Leuven. Ze studeerde enkele jaren geneeskunde maar besloot uiteindelijk dat dit toch niet echt was wat ze wou doen. Ze werkt nu als secretaresse in een herverzekeringsmaatschappij.
Wanneer [...]
Our series of translations of the She’s an Astronomer interviews continues (Hanny’s Interview in English): Hanny van Arkel is een 25-jarige lerares, die in het zuidoosten van Nederland woont met haar Duitse Herdershond Janey. Ze speelt gitaar en op het moment geeft ze muzieklessen op een basisschool in Heerlen, waar ze ook werkt aan het ontwerpen van [...]
Julia Wilkinson (aka Jules) manages an Advice Centre in Manchester by day and is an amateur astronomer by night – out with her telescopes or binoculars if it’s a clear, starry night or inside with Galaxy Zoo or an astronomy book if it’s cloudy. Julia has a degree in Economics and has also studied music [...]
Dr. Karen Masters is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth (also the 2008 Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation IAU Fellow). Originally from the Birmingham (UK) area, she did an undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Oxford (Wadham College) then moved to the US to do a [...]
Just a quick post to let you all know that earlier this week I submitted (to MNRAS) a paper on the Galaxy Zoo Red Spirals.
We decided to make this paper available right away on the arXiV, so you can download it here
This paper has been in the works for quite some time (remember the BBC [...]
Our She’s an Astronomer series is part of the International Year of Astronomy – and what better way to be international than to provide some posts in languages other than English! Thanks to Aida for inspiring this addition – she told me in an email she had translated her interview into Spanish for her parents [...]
Aida’s interview in English
Aida Bergés (Lovethetropics) vive en Puerto Rico con su esposo e hijos. Originaria de la República Dominicana, ella estudio en un colegio católico para señoritas (Colelgio del Apostolado), donde fue inspirada o motivada por su profesora de historia (Rosa María Reyes Feriz). Después de graduarse de allí, inició la universidad a estudiar [...]
Entrevista de Aida en español
Aida Berges (”lovethetropics“) lives in Puerto Rico with her husband and children. Originally from the Dominican Republic, she studied there in an all girl Catholic school (Colegio del Apostolado) where she was inspired by her her history teacher (Rosa Maria Reyes Feriz). After graduation she started a university degree in Law [...]
Dr. Kate Land is from sunny Sussex on the south coast of the UK and her research/studies have taken her to Cambridge (undergrad), Imperial (PhD), and then Oxford (postdoc). Her PhD was on the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, and in particular exploring anomalies in the WMAP data and their implications for our cosmological models. During [...]
Gemma Coughlin (better known as “fluffyporcupine“) has been one of the Galaxy Zoo forum moderators since last December when Chris asked her to help out with the ever growing forum. Gemma is a postgraduate student at Cambridge University, studying for a PhD in Engineering. Her work aims to improve computer simulations of objects with complex [...]