Ciska Kemper

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Ciska Kemper is an ICREA research professor at the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near Barcelona. She is an expert on infrared and (sub-)millimeter studies of dust and gas in interstellar and circumstellar environments. She makes use of state-of-the-art facilities like JWST and ALMA. Previously, she was the European ALMA Programme Scientist at ESO. Prior to joining ICE-CSIC, she held faculty positions at the Academia Sinica; the University of Manchester; and the University of Virginia. Her career started with a Spitzer fellowship at UCLA after obtaining her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2002.

In 2017, Ciska Kemper and her long-term collaborator Suzanne Madden jointly won the Grand Prix Scientifique de la Fondation Franco-Taiwanaise for their work on the interstellar medium of the Magellanic Clouds.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Distinguished Researcher, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
  • 2022–present
    Principal Investigator, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
  • 2022–present
    Professor of Astrophysics , Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE, CSIC)
  • 2018–2022
    European ALMA Programme Scientist, European Southern Observatory
  • 2010–2022
    Research Fellow , Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • 2006–2011
    Lecturer of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
  • 2005–2007
    Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia
  • 2002–2005
    Spitzer postdoctoral fellow in astrophysics, UCLA

Education

  • 2002 
    University of Amsterdam, Astrophysics (Ph.D.)
  • 1997 
    Leiden University, Astrophysics (M.Sc.)

Honours

Grand Prix Scientifique de la Fondation Franco-Taiwanaise (2017); Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators (2014)

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