| Name | Niv Drory | ||||
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McDonald Observatory,
Department of Astronomy
The University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Stop C1402 Austin, Texas 78712-1206, USA |
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| Trajectory | I studied physics from 1991 on at the LMU. I obtained a Ph.D. in astronomy at the Universitäts-Sternwarte in 2002. I wrote my thesis on galaxy evolution in the MUNICS survey. I was a post-doc at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Astronomy and McDonald Observatory from 2002 to 2006, partly on a von Humboldt fellowship (2002-2004). I was a staff scientist at MPE from 2007-2010, and a professor at IA-UNAM from 2011-2013. Currently I'm a Research Scientist at McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin. | ||||
| Research | Galaxy formation and evolution; photometric
and spectroscopic galaxy surveys
(MUNICS,
FDF, COSMOS, SDSS-IV/MaNGA, SDSS-V/LVM);
luminosity function and mass function of galaxies;
stellar populations in galaxies; structure of galactic disks and bulges; bulge kinematics
(VENGA; VIRUS-W);
observational cosmology
(The HET Dark Energy Experiment - HETDEX);
astronomical instrumentation (LVM, MaNGA, VIRUS-W, VIRUS) software for data processing. Data from my papers in electronic form is available here. | ||||
| Software projects | YODA:
Yet another Object Detection Application, a package for
object detection, photometry and classification.
LTL, the Little Template Library, together with Claus A. Gössl, and Jan Snigula. An expression templates based C++ library for array processing, image processing, FITS and ASCII I/O, and linear algebra (scientific computing, in short). Cure, the data reduction and analysis system for the VIRUS instrument and the HETDEX survey. |
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| Leisure | Anything that catches my interest and sparks my curiosity, really. Music. Literature. Science. Cooking. And - after a long break - photography again. |
Last updated: 17 Jan 2018; send comments to < drory at astro dot as dot utexas dot edu>