Jelle Kaastra

Dr. Jelle S. Kaastra

SRON

Sorbonnelaan 2

3584 CA Utrecht

Netherlands

Phone (31)-88-7775870

Fax (31)-88-7775601

J.Kaastra at sron.nl

 

Contents:

 

Current position

Research interests

Publications

Teaching

 

Current position

 

Senior Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

Zero appointment as “Universitair hoofddocent” at the astronomical institute, Utrecht University

 

Other professional activities:

 

Principal Investigator of the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) of XMM-Newton

Principal Investigator of the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS) of Chandra

Member Astro-H Science Advisory Committee

 

Research interests

 

X-ray spectroscopy of:

 

·      Active Galactic Nuclei

·      Clusters of galaxies

·      Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium

·      Interstellar medium

·      & any other intersting source ....

 

Modeling of (high-resolution) X-ray spectra

 

Continuation of the pioneering work of Rolf Mewe:

 

Mekal model in XSPEC

Our current spectral modeling and fitting code: SPEX

 

Future X-ray instruments

 

Astro-H

ORIGIN

Athena

 

Research theme: the chemical evolution of the universe

 

Using high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy, trace the metal evolution of the universe by observing various classes of objects

 

Publications

 

List of scientific publications

List of scientific discourses

 

Teaching

 

Course Active Galactic Nuclei / High Energy Astrophysics

first semester 2008 – taught together with Frank Verbunt

lecture notes are posted here.