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Autoren im Cuvillier Verlag

Nadine Afram

Nadine Afram


Nationality: Swiss
Date of birth: 15. April 1978

Education

2005–2008 PhD at the Institute of Astronomy (PhD exam: 26August 2008), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
‘Molecular diagnostics of solar and stellar magnetic fields’
Scientific advisers: Prof. Dr. S. V. Berdyugina, Prof. Dr. J.O. Stenflo

2004 MSc in Physics, Diploma Thesis ‘Zeeman Effect in the Molecule FeH’, Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

1998–2004 Studies in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Contribution to research projects

• 2005–present ‘Astrophysical Spectropolarimetry’, (PI J.O. Stenflo, S.V. Berdyugina)
• 2005–present ‘Molecules in Magnetized Solar and Stellar Atmospheres’
(PI S.V. Berdyugina)


Observations

• August 2006 ‘Magnetic fields on M dwarfs’, CFHT, Hawaii, USA, (CO-I)
• November 2005 ‘A study of the sunspot atmosphere’, VTT, Tenerife, Spain, (CO-I)
• July 2005 ‘A probe of the internal structure of starspots with the molecular Zeeman
effect’, CFHT, Hawaii, USA, (CO-I)




Presentations at conferences

• July 2008 St.Andrews, Scotland Poster at the ‘Cool Stars 15’ Meeting
• September 2007 Ascona, Switzerland Talk & Poster at the ‘Solar Polarization Workshop 5’
• November 2006 Pasadena, CA, USA Poster at the ‘Cool Stars 14’ Meeting
• September 2005 Boulder, CO, USA Talk at the ‘Solar Polarization Workshop 4’


Teaching experience

• 2005–present Assistant, astronomy classes, ‘Astrophysics’, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 2005–present Assistant, physics classes, ‘Physics I & II’, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 2001–2002 Undergraduate teaching assistant, ‘Calculus I’, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Skills

• Programming experience: IDL, Fortran, C++ (basics)
• Languages: German (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate), Italian (intermediate), Arabic (fluent in spoken), Aramaic (fluent in spoken)


Scientific interests

• Solar and stellar magnetic fields: synthetic spectra, inversions of spectropolarimetric data to obtain sunspot models
• Molecular astrophysics: Zeeman & Paschen-Back effects
• Stellar structure and evolution: young red & brown dwarfs, starspots


Community Outreach

Participation in activities during the ‘World Year of Physics 2005’

• June 2005 Event ‘Night of Physics’, Zurich, Switzerland
• April/May 2005 Event weeks ‘World of Science’, Zurich, Switzerland
• March 2005 Event week ‘Physics for Kids and Teens’, Zurich, Switzerland

Buch des Autors

1. Molecular Diagnostics of Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields
   Universität Zürich, 2008 ISBN-10: 386727763X, ISBN-13: 9783867277631