Staff

Director John Conway Infrastructure Director, Onsala Space Observatory and Professor at the Department of Space, Earth and Environment. John Conway is the Director of the Onsala Space Observatory. National Facility and Professor in Radio Astronomy at Chalmers Deputy director Eva Wirström Division Head and Associate professor, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory Eva Wirström is a Associate professor and Division Head for the Onsala Space Observatory division. Her research interests includes the physics and... Press contact Robert Cumming Communications officer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory Robert Cumming is responsible for outreach and public engagement at Onsala Space Observatory. He takes care of enquiries from media and members of the... Observational support Michael Lindqvist Senior Research engineer and Head of Unit, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Observational Support Michael Lindqvist is an astronomer and a large part of his work is to support VLBI observations at Onsala Space Observatory. His main interest in... Per Bergman Senior research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory Per is the Swedish APEX Project Scientist and is responsible for the Swedish observations with the APEX-telescope in Chile. Tobia Carozzi Senior Research engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Observational Support Tobia Carozzi is a staff member at the Onsala Space Observatory. His main projects are the radio telescopes LOFAR and SKA. He operates the Swedish Lofar... Sabine König Senior research engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory Division. Sabine's research is focused on the physical properties in the interstellar medium in nearby galaxies. For her work she uses ground-based telescopes all... Sebastien Muller Senior Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Observational Support Sebastien is working in the ALMA Nordic node to help astronomers to make the best of their observations. Sebastien is personally interested in studying... Michael Olberg Senior Research engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory Michael took his PhD at the university of Cologne, Germany, after which he worked for two and a half years at SEST in Chile before he was employed by the... Henrik Olofsson Senior Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Observational Support Henrik is responsible for the 20 meter telescope and LOFAR at Onsala Space Observatory. Daniel Tafoya Senior research engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory His research is focused on the study of circumstellar envelopes of stars that are reaching the end of their lives, so called evolved stars. The main goal... Maria Carmen Toribio Perez Senior Research engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Observational Support Carmen Toribio is the head of the Nordic ALMA Regional Center at the Onsala Space observatory. Her main duty is to support astronomers in using ALMA, the... Jun Yang Senior Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Observational support VLBI represents Very Long Baseline Interferometry. With the technique, astronomers can synthesize the radio signal observed by multiple telescopes across... Technical development and support Lars Pettersson Senior Research Engineer and Head of unit, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Electronics Lab, Magnus Dahlgren Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Electronics Lab I will work with radio astronomy receiver development within the SKA project. I have been at Ericsson for 13 years working mostly with microwave design on... Jonas Flygare Ph.D. Student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Electronics Laboratory Jonas is a Ph.D. student with the Electronics Laboratory at the Onsala Space Observatory under the Department of Space, Earth and Environment. He works on... Leif Helldner Senior Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Electronics Lab Leif is involved in the development, integration, testing and maintenance of the radiometers, receivers and antenna systems with surrounding equipment for... Gary Hovey Senior Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Electronics Lab Jan Karaskuru Technician, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Mechanical Workshop Jan works with service and maintenance of the properties. He is also helpful with other tasks regarding the operations at Onsala Space Observatory. Ulf Kylenfall Senior Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Electronics Lab Design and maintenance of instruments for Radio Astronomy and Astro Physics. Johannes Reldin Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Electronics Lab Lukas Sandström Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory Lars Wennerbäck Technician and Head of Unit, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Mechanical Workshop Lars works as a technician at the Onsala Space Observatory. Computer support Roger Hammargren Senior Research Engineer and Head of Unit, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Computer Support Roger Hammargren is responsible for IT operations at Onsala Space Observatory, as well as working with observational support at Onsala Space Observatory. Simon Casey Senior Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Computer Support Lars Eriksson Technician, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Computer Support Mikael Lerner Senior Research Engineer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Computer Support Glenn Persson Systems Developer, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory, Computer Support Glenn works at Onsala Space Observatory with computer support for the Astro group and with GNU / Linux programming. In addition, he works for the Optical... Staff at Division of astronomy and plasma physics working for the OSO infrastructure Franz Kirsten Post Doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy. Franz is interested in all things related to Pulsars: Their birth locations and formation process, their whereabouts in the Galaxy, the mechanism driving... Magnus Thomasson Associate professor, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Extragalactic Astrophysics. Magnus Thomasson teaches, e.g., astrophysics and electric circuits. He also works at Onsala Space Observatory with research administration, e.g., with the...