As of February 1st, 2008 I hold a permanent position at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels.
Between 1-Oct-2001 and 31-Jan-2008 I worked for the Herschel-PACS ICC (Instrument Control Centre) at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Leuven.
Between 1-Oct-2000 and 30-Sep-2001 I was an associate in the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS)-team.
Before that I held a post-doc position at the MPA (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik) for 5 years.
Between Nov. 1993 and Sep. 1995, I was a post-doc at the IAP (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).
I graduated in 1993 from the
University of Amsterdam.
- Circumstellar matter in late stages of stellar evolution, like
- Asymptotic Giant Branch stars, Post-AGB stars, and Planetary Nebulae
- Carbon stars, Miras, Semi-Regular variables and Supergiants
- The evolution of late-type stars
- AGB population synthesis
- AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds, and the Local Group
- Modelling the dust and gas emission in the circumstellar envelopes
- The mass loss phenomenon
- The Lutz-Kelker and other biases in trigonometric parallax (Hipparcos ) data.
- Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars & Eclipsing Binaries and the distance scale in the Universe.
- Star-Galaxy separation, and using deep extra-galactic surveys to study Galactic structure
- Euro-VO Scientific Advisory Committee (2009 - present)
- Belgian representative in the ESO User Committee (2009 - present)
- Coordinator of the Belgian Guaranteed Time on ESO's VLTI Sub-Array (VISA) (June 2005 - present)
- Belgian representative in the ESO OPC for periods 73-77, Member of the ESO OPC for period 78. Panel member for ESO period 80. Vice-Chair of one of the ``Stellar'' sub-panels in periods 73-78, 80.
In the pleasant company of Mathias Schultheis and Susanne Höfner. Dinner party at the workshop ``Future directions in AGB research, on the occasion of the retirement of Harm Habing'' in Leiden, The Netherlands, 10/11 April 2003. Picture taken by Ian Glass (SAAO). |
Myself, Maurizio Salaris, Achim Weiss (front row, right to left), happy co-organisers of ``The Giant Branches'' workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, May 11-15, 2009, and most of the other participants. |
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Scientific interests:
PACS:
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I am the PI. of a Herschel Guaranteed Time Key Program in the domain of post-main-sequence objects,
called MESS .
PACS stands for ``Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer'' and is one of three instruments to fly on the Herschel space mission in 2009. PACS performs imaging spectroscopy and imaging photometry in the 57 - 210 micron wavelength range. The Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik is the PI-Institute with the University of Leuven (together with IMEC in Leuven and CSL in Liege) as a Co-I institute (Co-PI: Prof. Christoffel Waelkens, KUL) at the 20% level. |
Somewhere in Vienna, August 2010 |
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VMC:
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I am one of the co-I's of the VISTA Magellanic Cloud
(VMC ) survey. This
survey is led by Maria-Rosa Cioni (University of Hertfordshire), and aims at observing 180 square
degrees of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, the bridge and stream
in three filters (YJK).
The main aims are to determine the spatially resolved star formation history of the Magellanic system, study the (past) interaction, and to determine a 3D picture of it.
My interest is in the late-type stellar component, and study the mass-loss process as a function of environment.
(International) functions:
Publications:
Seminars:
Martin Groenewegen
Royal Observatory of Belgium
Ringlaan 3
B-1180 Brussel
Belgium
Tel= + 32 (0)2 3730203
E-mail= marting AT oma.be