Mariska Kriek

University of California, Berkeley

 

Curriculum Vitae

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Positions

  1. •Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley (01/2012-present)

  2. •Clay Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (09/2010-12/2011)

  3. •H. N. Russell Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (10/2007-08/2010)


Education

  1. •Ph.D. (Cum Laude) in Astronomy, Leiden University (September 26, 2007)
    Thesis: “The Many Phases of Massive Galaxies: a Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Galaxies in the Early Universe”
    Advisers: Prof. Marijn Franx and Prof. Pieter van Dokkum

  2. •M.Sc. in Astronomy, Leiden University (August 26, 2003)


Honors and Awards

  1. •Christiaan Huygens Science Award 2008: National thesis prize, awarded once every 4 years to space sciences in the Netherlands

  2. •C. J. Kok Prize 2007: Researcher of the year, Faculty of Science, Leiden University

Students

  1. Graduate Students:

  2. •Dyas Utomo (UC Berkeley; 2012-present)

  3. •Sedona Price (UC Berkeley; 2012-present)

  4. •Therese Jones (UC Berkeley; 2011-present)

  5. •Willem de Pous (Leiden University; w/ Marijn Franx; 2011-present)

  6. •Jesse van de Sande (Leiden University; w/ Marijn Franx; 2009-present)

  7. Undergraduate Students:

  8. •Kevin Yu (UC Berkeley; 2012-present)

  9. •Michael Gordon (Princeton University; 3rd-year; w/ Jenny Greene; 2009)


Teaching

  1. •7a: Introduction to Astrophysics; Undergraduate course for majors at UC Berkeley (fall 2013)

  2. •AY 218: Galaxies; Graduate course at UC Berkeley (fall 2012)

  3. •Project Inside: Teaching algebra courses at New Jersey correctional facilities (2008-2010)


Recent Colloquia and Invited Conference Talks

  1. •Astronomy Seminar, University of California, San Diego (04/2013)

  2. •Astronomy Seminar, Los Alamos National Lab (02/2013)

  3. •Colloquium, Space Science Lab, UC Berkeley (10/2012)

  4. •Invited talk, Gemini Science and Users Meeting (07/2012)

  5. •Colloquium, University of California at Santa Cruz (06/2012)

  6. •Cosmology Seminar, University of California at Davis (05/2012)

  7. •Colloquium, University of Washington (05/2012)

  8. •Colloquium, University of California at Los Angeles (05/2012)

  9. •Colloquium, Carnegie Observatories (01/2012)

  10. •Colloquium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (11/2011)

  11. •Colloquium, California Institute of Technology (9/2011)

  12. •Colloquium, University of Chicago (6/2011)

  13. •Invited talk, “Pioneering into the Extragalactic Frontier with the Giant Magellan Telescope”, College Station, TX (3/2011)

  14. •Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley (3/2011)

  15. •Invited talk, STScI symposium; “Stellar Populations in the Cosmological Context”, Baltimore, MD (5/2010)

  16. •Colloquium, Princeton University (3/2010)

  17. •Colloquium, University of Toronto (3/2010)

  18. •Colloquium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2/2010)


Recent Professional Services

  1. •Member Representative, AURA (2013-present)

  2. •Organizer, Astronomy Department Lunch, UC Berkeley (spring 2013)

  3. •Organizer, Astronomy Colloquium, UC Berkeley (fall 2012)

  4. •Member, Hubble Space Telescope review panel, Cycle 18 & 20

  5. •Referee for ApJ, ApJ Letters, MNRAS, MNRAS Letters, A&A

  6. •Co-chair, scientific organizing committee, Workshop: “Galaxies: Insight Out” (07/2012)

  7. •Organizer, Galaxy Formation discussion group (GalForm), UC Berkeley (2012-present)

  8. •Organizer, seminar series, optical & infra-red division, CfA (2011)

  9. •Organizer, astrophysics postdoc seminar series, Princeton (2009)

  10. •Member, scientific organizing committee, Workshop: “Galaxies in Real Life and Simulations” (2008)

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