Co-Director of the ACGC, UCT (Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre)
PhD Phil II, University of Basel (CH)
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Prof. Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg
Head of Department
Co-Director of the ACGC, UCT (Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre) PhD Phil II, University of Basel (CH) |
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Contact details: Department of Astronomy University of Cape Town Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 South Africa |
RW James Building (Upper Campus) Room 539 Phone: +27 21 650 5830 Fax: +27 21 650 4547 kraan@circinus.ast.uct.ac.za |
| Curriculum Vitae | Publications |
| Research Interests: | Large Scale Structures and Streaming Motions in the Nearby Universe
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| Projects with SALT
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| Teaching: | AST5003F: Extragalactic Astronomy NASSP MSc course | |
| AST3003S: Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
Third year undergraduate course in Astrophysics | ||
| Postgraduate Students: | Ed Elson (PhD, since 01/07)
Quantifying the Properties of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies via High Resolution HI Synthesis Observations | |
| Ihab Riad (PhD, since 01/07)
Mapping the Great Attractor Wall across the Optical and 2MASS Zone of Avoidance | ||
| Paul Kotze (PhD, since 05/07)
The Evolution and Transformation of Galaxies in Superclusters at Intermediate Redshifts | ||
| Wendy Williams (MSc, since 02/09)
A multiwavelength study of HI galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance | ||
| Kosma von Maltitz (MSc, since 07/09)
Galaxies inthe ZOA: Does Vela hide a massive overdensity at 20000km/s? | ||
| Graduated UCT Students: | Bonita de Swardt (PhD, 2009) The Structure, Stellar Content and Dynamics of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume Currently postdoc at SAAO |
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| Michelle Cluver (PhD, 2009) The Nature and Nurture of a Starburst Supermassive HI Galaxy: HIZOA J0836-43 Currently postdoc at CalTech |
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| Tana Jospeh (MSc, 2009) Towards an HI Census of the Local SDSS Galaxies Currently PhD at University of Southampton |
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| Nikki Pekeur (MSc, with distinction, 2009) Investigating the Relationship between the HI and Optical Diameter for a Sample of Galaxies from the Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS) Currently PhD at UNW, Potchefstroom |
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| Nebiha Shafi (MSc, 2008) A HI Search for Galaxies Hidden by the Milky Way behind the Galactic Bulge Currently PhD at HartRAO |
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| Roger Deane (MSc, with distinction, 2008) The Giant LSB Galaxy NGC 1512: A High Resolution Analysis of the HI, Star Formation and Dark Matter in this Nearby Interacting Galaxy Currently PhD at Oxford |
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| James Tagg (MSc, 2008) Optimisation of the NIR Survey Strategy in Unveiling Galaxies in the Great Attractor |
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| Rosalyn Skelton (MSc, with distinction, 2007)
The Infrared Luminosity Function of the Norma Cluster Currently PhD at MPIA Heidelberg | ||
| Paul Kotze (MSc, 2007)
A Deep Photometric Survey of the Abell Cluster S0423. - A Pilot Study for the UCT SALT Supercluster Survey Currently PhD, UCT |
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