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Research interests:

Below are listed the research activities of the NOT staff.
The instrument responsibilities are given in details in the Overview of instrumentation.

Staff
Name Post Publications
Anlaug Amanda Djupvik Senior Staff astronomer ADS
Research interest: Star formation, young stellar clusters, and the stellar Initial Mass Function.
Instrumental expertise: Infrared imaging and spectroscopy.
Instrumentation responsibilities: NIR imaging and spectroscopy with NOTCam. ALFOSC polarimetry. Turpol.
Tapio
Pursimo 		Staff astronomer ADS
Research interest: Quasars: photometry, polarimetry and low resolution spectroscopy
Instrumental expertise: Optical imaging and polarimetry
Instrumentation responsibilities: ALFOSC, MOSCA, StanCam imaging, ALFOSC polarimetry
Peter
Sorensen 		Software Specialist ADS
Research interest: Planetary nebulae
John
Telting 		Senior Staff astronomer ADS
Research interest: Evolution and structure of hot stars; in particular observational asteroseismology and binary evolution
Instrumental expertise: Spectroscopy
Instrumentation responsibilities: FIES, ALFOSC spectroscopy, and NOTCAM spectroscopy
Joonas
Viuho 		Instrument scientist ADS
Research interest: Instrumentation design, optics, photonics
Instrumental expertise: Optics, spectroscopy, silicon and HgCdTe -detectors
Instrumentation responsibilities: ALFOSC, FIES, NTE, NOTCAM, STANCAM
Students
Name Post Home institute Publications
Niko
Pyykkinen 		PhD student University of Turku ADS
Research interest: Observational Astrophysics, Transients, Supernovae
Roar
Holmberg Rasmussen 		MSc student Aarhus University ADS
Research interest: Astroseismology, Stellar Spectroscopic Modelling
Veera
Vuolteenaho 		PhD student University of Oulu ADS
Research interest: Cataclysmic Variables, Accretion, Observational Astrophysics, Binary evolution
Kostas
Valeckas 		MSc student University of Copenhagen ADS
Research interest: Data Reduction Software, Observational Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Inquiry-Based Teaching
Astrid
Lind Bouquin 		MSc student Technical University of Denmark arxiv
Research interest: Observational Astrophysics, X-Ray Binaries, High-Energy Instrumentation
Amanda
Schriver Maartensson 		MSc student Technical University of Denmark ADS
Research interest: Instrumentation, Observational Astrophysics, Atmospheric Transients
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