Contact
Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA)
Quantum, Vesilinnantie 5
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland
Tel: +358 29 450 4516
email: finca@utu.fi
Personnel
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Research interests:
galaxy evolution, interacting galaxies, starbursts & AGN, young massive stellar clusters, observational optical and infrared astronomy
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kani@utu.fi
Research interests:
AGN/QSO host galaxies, AGN monitoring, time series analysis, image processing, polarimetry
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Research interests:
galaxy evolution, milky way structure and formation, galaxy mergers, globular clusters
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PhDbsdixi@utu.fi
Research interests:
radio astronomical instrumentation and digital signal processing
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Research interests:
Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy, blazars
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Research interests:
small Solar System bodies, in particular VIS-NIR observations of close-approaching NEAs
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Research interests:
artificial intelligence applications to astronomy, compact binaries, optical variability surveys
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Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Galaxy dynamics, Planetary nebulae, Integral-field spectroscopy, Adaptive optics
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Research interests:
blazars, radio astronomy, multiwavelength-observations
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blazars, multiwavelength observations, optical polarization, very high energy gamma-ray astronomy
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Research interests: supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, progenitor stars and host galaxies of transients
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Research interests :
Large Scale Structure, galaxy clusters, brightest cluster galaxies, galaxy evolution and stellar populations.
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PhDerik.kool@utu.fi
Research interests:
supernovae
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Research interests:
AGN, multiwavelength observations, resonances in galaxies, time series analysis
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FTjyri.lehtinen@utu.fi
Tutkimusalat:
tähtien magneettikentät ja aktiivisuus, spektropolarimetria
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Radio astronomy, EHT observations, near-horizon AGN science, theoretical simulations and modelling of images and spectra.
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Research interests:
AGN and outflows, AGN host galaxies, star formation in nearby galaxies, radio astronomy
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Research Interests:
galaxy formation and evolution, AGN, quasars, observational astronomy, programming, space exploration, citizen science, interdisciplinarity, teaching
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Research interests:
quasars, three-body problem, cosmology