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1 Curriculum Vitae Mahmoudreza Oshagh Personal Information Contact Information Gender: Male Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 Date of birth: 05/06/ Göttingen, Germany Place of birth: Tehran, Iran Phone: Place of residence: Göttingen, Germany moshagh@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de Professional & Academic Background 2016-present Advanced Postdoctoral researcher (DFG research grant holder- OS 508/1-1), Institute for Astrophysics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Porto, Portugal Ph.D. in Astrophysics (with distinction), Department of physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Dissertation Topic : Stellar activity in high-precision photometric and spectroscopic transit observations. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nuno C. Santos (University of Porto, Portugal) and Prof. Dr. Nader Haghighipour (University of Hawaii, USA) Research Assistant in Cosmic Ray Observatory at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran B.Sc. in Physics, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran. Research Interests Extra solar planet: Detection and characterization of planetary system through transit photometry, and the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) method, Rossiter Mclaughlin effect, transmission spectroscopy, planetary atmosphere, transiting brown dwarfs. Stellar activity: Better characterization of planetary system considering the impact of stellar activity. Publications Peer-reviewed Oshagh, M., Gillon, M., Triaud, A., Reiners, A., Dreizler, S., Schmitt, J., Santos, N. C., Figueira, P., Bonfils, X., Pepe, F., Udry, S., Detecting the variation of measured spin-orbit angles due to the stellar activity, in preparation, Oshagh, M., Santos,N. C., Figueira, P., Barros, S. C. C., Donati, J.-F., Adibekyan, V., Faria,J. P., Watson, C. A., Cegla, H. M., Dumusque, X., Hébrard, E., Demangeon, O., Dreizler, S., Boisse, I., Deleuil, M., Bonfils, X., Pepe, F., Udry, S., Understanding stellar activity-induced radial velocity jitter using simultaneous K2 photometry and HARPS RV measurements, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 606, id.a107, 14 pp, Akinsanmi, B., Oshagh, M., Santos, N.C., and Barros, S.C.C., Detecting transit signatures of exoplanetary ring using SOAP3.0, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 609, id.a21, 13 pp, 2017.

2 Sedaghati, E., Boffin, H., MacDonald, R., Gandhi, S., Madhusudhan, N., Gibson, N., Oshagh, M., Claret, A., Rauer, H., Detection of titanium oxide in the atmosphere of a hot Jupiter, Nature, 549, , Bouchy, F., et al (including Oshagh, M.), Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher to Join HARPS on the ESO 3.6-metre Telescope, The Messenger, vol. 169, p , Serrano, L. M., Barros, S. C. C., Oshagh, M., Faria,J. P., Santos, N. C., Demangeon, O., Sousa,S. G., Disentangling the signal albedo of exoplanets from the stellar activity with short observations with CHEOPS, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, [arxiv: ], Oshagh, M., Heller, R., Dreizler, S., How eclipse time variations, eclipse duration variations and radial velocities can reveal S-type planets in close eclipsing binaries?, MNRAS, 466, , 2017 Oshagh, M., Dreizler, S., Santos, N.C., Figueira, P., Reiners, A. Can stellar activity make a planet seem misaligned?, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 593, id.a25, 7 pp, Figueira, P., Santerne, A., Suárez Mascareño, A., Gomes da Silva, J., Abe, L., Adibekyan, V. Zh., Bendjoya, P., Correia, A. C. M., Delgado-Mena, E., Faria, J. P., Hebrard, G., Lovis, C., Oshagh, M., Rivet, J.-P., Santos, N. C., Suarez, O., Vidotto, A. A. Is the activity level of HD influenced by its eccentric planet?, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 592, id.a143, 9 pp, Faria, J. P., Haywood, R. D., Brewer, B. J., Figueira, P., Oshagh, M., Santerne, A., Santos, N. C. Uncovering the planets and stellar activity of CoRoT-7 using only radial velocities, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 588, id.a31, 7 pp, Figueira, P., Faria, J. P., Adibekyan, V. Zh., Oshagh, M., Santos, N. C. A Pragmatic Bayesian Perspective on Correlation Analysis - The exoplanetary gravity - stellar activity case, Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, pp 1-9, Oshagh, M., Santos, N. C., Figueira, P., Adibekyan, V. Zh., Santerne, A., Barros, S. C. C., Lima, J. J. G. Polar stellar-spots and grazing planetary transits. Possible explanation for the low number of discovered grazing planets, Letter in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 583, id.l1, 4 pp, Figueira, P., Adibekyan, V. Zh., Oshagh, M., Neal, J. J., Rojas-Ayala, B., Lovis, C., Melo, C., Pepe, F., Santos, N. C., Tsantaki, M. Radial velocity information content of M dwarf spectra in the near-infrared, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 586, id.a101, 23 pp, Santos, N. C., Martins, J. H. C., Boué, G., Correia, A. C. M., Oshagh, M., et al. Detecting ring systems around exoplanets using high resolution spectroscopy: the case of 51 Pegasi b, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 583, id.a50, 9 pp, Figueira, P., Oshagh, M., Adibekyan, V. Zh., Santos, N. C. Revisiting the correlation between stellar activity and planetary surface gravity, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 572, id.a51, 9 pp, Oshagh, M., Santos, N. C., Ehrenreich, D., Haghighipour, N., Figueira, P., Santerne, A., Montalto, M. Impact of occultations of stellar active regions on transmission spectra: Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky?, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 568, id.a99, 6 pp, Santos, N. C., Mortier, A., Faria, J. P., Dumusque, X., Adibekyan, V. Zh., Delgado-Mena, E., Figueira, P., Benamati, L., Boisse, I., Cunha, D., Gomes da Silva, J., Lo Curto, G., Lovis, C., Martins, J. H. C., Mayor, M., Melo, C., Oshagh, M., Pepe, F., Queloz, D., Santerne, A., Ségransan, D., Sozzetti, A., Sousa, S. G., Udry, S. The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets.? XXXV. The interesting case of HD41248: stellar activity, no planets?, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 566, id.a35, 14 pp, Montalto, M., Boué, G., Oshagh, M., Boisse, I., Bruno, G., Santos, N. C., Improvements on analytic modelling of stellar spot, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 444, Issue 2, p , Rauer, H. et al (including Oshagh, M.), The PLATO 2.0 Mission, Experimental Astronomy, 2014.

3 Oshagh, M., Boué,G., Figueira, P., Santos, N. C., Haghighipour,N. Probing the gravitational microlensing effect on the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect measurements, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 558, id.a65, 5 pp, Oshagh, M., Santos, N. C., I. Boisse,I., Boué,G., Montalto,M., Dumusque, X., Haghighipour,N. The effect of stellar spots on the high precision transit light curve, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 556, id.a19, 5 pp, Oshagh, M., Boisse, I., Boué, G., Montalto, M., Santos, N. C., Bonfils, X, Haghighipour, N., SOAP-T: A tool to study the light curves and radial velocities of planets transiting rotating spotted stars, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 549, id.a35, 8 pp, Boué, G., Montalto, M., Boisse, I., Oshagh, M., Santos, N. C., New analytical expressions of the Rossiter- McLaughlin effect adapted to different observation techniques, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 550, id.a53, 16 pp, Montalto, M., Gregorio, J., Boué, G., Mortier, A., Boisse, I., Oshagh, M., Maturi, M., Figueira, P., Sousa, S., Santos, N. C., A new analysis of the WASP-3 system: no evidence for an additional companion, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 427, Issue 4, pp , Oshagh, M., Boué, G., Haghighipour, N., Montalto, M., Figueira, P., Santos, N. C., Transit-timing measurements with the model-independent barycenter method: application to the LHS 6343 system, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 540, A62, Boué, G., Oshagh, M., Montalto, M, Santos, N. C., Degeneracy in the characterization of non-transiting planets from transit timing variations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 422, L57, Conference Proceedings Oshagh, M., Noise Sources in Photometry and Radial Velocities, Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Volume 49. Springer International Publishing AG, 2018, p. 239, Oshagh, M., Santos,, N. C., Boisse,, I., Boué,, G., Ehrenreich,, D., Haghighipour,, N., Figueira,, P., Santerne,, A., Dumusque,, X. Effect of stellar activity on the high precision transit light curve, The Space Photometry Revolution - CoRoT Symposium 3, Kepler KASC-7 Joint Meeting, Toulouse, France, Edited by R.A. García, J. Ballot, EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 101, id.05003, Boisse, I., Oshagh, M., Lovis, C., Santos, N. C., Dumusque, X., Bonfils, X., Montalto, M., Boué, G., How the planetary research helps to the stellar dynamo understanding, Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos and Magnetic Activity, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 294, pp , Oshagh, M., Grigahcéne, A., Benomar, O., Dupret, M.-A., Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G., Scuflaire, R, Santos, N. C., Successful asteroseismology for a better characterization of the exoplanet HAT-P-7b, Stellar Pulsations, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Volume 31, Part 5, , 2013 [DOI: / ]. Oshagh, M., Boué, G., Haghighipour, N., Montalto, M., Figueira, P., Santos, N. C., Transit Timing Measurements Using the model-independent barycenter method: Application to LHS 6343 System, Published in Proceedings of the 2nd CoRoT symposium, Oshagh, M., Haghighipour, N., Santos, N. C., A survey of M stars in the field of view of Kepler space telescope, Published in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 276, p

4 Grants and Fellowships 2017 COST ACTION short term visiting grant (STSM-TD1308: Full support for two week visit to IA-Porto, 1000 euros) 2017 COST ACTION short term visiting grant (STSM-TD1308: Full support for two week visit to IA-Porto, 1000 euros) DFG research grant (Grant ID: OS 508/1-1) declined Six years Postdoctoral fellowship of the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal 2016 COST ACTION short term visiting grant (STSM-TD1308: Full support for a month visit to IA-Porto, 1500 euros) 2015 One year Post-doctoral grant (CAUP-15/2014-BDP) Two year IDPASC/FCT PhD grant Research assistantship grant from Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP- 05/2012-BI) Travel support grant for attending the 6th Heidelberg Summer School, funded by Max- Planck-Institut für Astronomie One year research assistantship grant from Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP-04/2011-BI) One year research assistantship grant from Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP-04/2010-BI) Travel support grant for attending the VLTI school 2010, funded by University of Porto. Projects Participation and Observational Experience 2014-present 2013-present 2015-present 2015-present PI of three accepted ESO observing proposals for observing with HARPS and CRIRES spectrographs. CoI of five accepted ESO and OPTICON observing proposals. Participation in science preparation of CHEOPS (strong involvement in developing the CHEOPS simulator CHEOPSim ). Participation in science preparation of PLATO2.0 (Involved in the work package related to the stellar activity- WP 112k and WP ) Performing two times HARPS observing runs at ESO 3.6m Telescope, La Silla Observatory, Chile Performing two times SOPHIE observing runs at OHP-193 cm Telescope, Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France [SOPHIE program and S. Sousa 2010B proposal]. Evaluation Panelist, Editorial Board, Referee, and Reviewer Guest Editor of Special Issue about Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets for Geosciences journal Panel member of evaluating and reviewing the Algorithm Template Baseline Descriptions (ATBDs) for the PLATO2.0 mission Reviewer for the doctoral fellowship (DOC) for the Austrian Academy of Sciences present Frequently refereeing papers in international astrophysics journals such as A&A, MNRAS, and PASP Jury of the third International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tehran, Iran.

5 Membership of Committees and Organizations 2017-present Organizer of the weekly Journal Club in the Institute for Astrophysics of University of Göttingen, Germany Member of Local Organizing Committee of Towards Other Earths II International conference, Porto, Portugal. Teaching and Supervising Experience Teaching 2017 Invited lecturer for the 9th Advanced Astrophysics Workshop of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran Invited lecturer for the summer school of Asteroseismology and Exoplanets, Azores Island, Portugal Teacher assistant for two Planetary System courses in the level of Master of astronomy (Teacher: Prof. Dr. N. C. Santos), Department of physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Supervising Experience 2015-present 2017-present 2017-present Co-supervision of a PhD student (Luisa M. Serrano) in Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Portugal. Co-supervision of a Master student (Sören Boldt) in Institut für Astrophysik, Georg- August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Co-supervision of a PhD student (Eliana Amazo-Gomez) in Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany Co-supervision of a Master student (Babatunde Akinsanmi) in Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Portugal Co-supervision of an undergraduate student (Joao Vilas Boas) in Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Portugal Co-supervisor of a Master student(saeed Hojjatpanah) Zanjan University, Iran Co-supervision of two undergraduate students (Abhinav Jindal and Saeed Hojjatpanah) in their summer internship in the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Portugal. Presentation Invited talks and seminars 2017 Invited seminar about A novel method to detect S-type planet in eclipsing binaries in IA-Porto, Portugal 2016 Invited seminar about Impact of stellar activity on the determination of exoplanet s parameters in the Institute of Planetary Research, DLR-Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2016 Invited seminar about Impact of stellar activity on the determination of exoplanet s parameters in Hamburg Observatory, Germany 2016 Invited seminar about Impact of stellar activity on the determination of exoplanet s parameters in Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam, Germany

6 2016 Invited seminar about Impact of stellar activity on the determination of exoplanet s parameters in ESO, Santiago, Chile Contributed talks 2017 Oral presentation of Can stellar activity make a planet seem misaligned? in the 5th CHEOPS science workshop, Schloss Seggau, Graz, Austria 2017 Oral presentation of Can stellar activity make a planet seem misaligned? in the Transiting Exoplanets conference, Keele University, UK 2016 Oral presentation of Understanding the activity-induced RV jitter using K2 and HARPS, K2 meeting, Porto, Portugal Oral presentation of How stellar activity affects exoplanet s parameters estimation and exoplanet s atmosphere characterization, Pathways Towards Habitable Planets II. Bern, Switzerland Oral presentation of The physical link between simultaneous photometry and radialvelocity observations: Application to the CoRoT-7 system, Cheops Science Workshop # 3, Madrid, Spain Oral presnetation of Impact of occultations of stellar active regions on transmission spectra. Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky, Habitability in the Universe: From the Early Earth to Exoplanets, Porto, Portugal Oral presentation of Effect of stellar activity on the high-precision transmission spectra: Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky?, Towards Other Earths II, Porto, Portugal Oral presentation of Effect of stellar activity on the high precision transit light curve, The Space Photometry Revolution, Toulouse, France Oral presentation of Impact of the occultation of stellar active regions on transmission spectra: Do HD189733b and GJ3470b have blue skies?, weekly seminar at CAUP, Porto, Portugal Oral presentation of Dealing with stellar activity in high-precision photometric and spectroscopic transit observations in the PLATO 2.0 Science Workshop, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Oral presentation of Effect of stellar spots on high-precision transit light-curve in XXIII Portuguese National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Lisbon, Portugal Oral presentation of The effect of stellar spots on high-precision transit light curves in the first CHEOPS science meeting, Bern, Switzerland Oral presentation of The effect of stellar spots on the transit timing variations as a planet validation method in the Planet Validation Workshop, Marseille, France Oral presentation of On the detection and characterization of transiting exoplanets beating stellar noise in 22th National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Porto, Portugal Oral presentation of Transit Timing Measurements Using a New Technique Barycenter Method : Application to LHS 6343 System in the 2nd CoRoT symposium, Marseille, France Oral presentation of Successful asteroseismology for a better characterization of the exoplanet HAT-P-7b in 20th Stellar Pulsation Conference Series, Granada, Spain Oral presentation of Transit Timing Variation of M Stars among Kepler s targets in 21th National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Coimbra, Portugal Oral presentation of Find the mass of Super Massive Black Hole from center of gravity of stars around in 15th National Gravity and Cosmology Conference in Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

7 Posters 2016 Poster presentation of Can stellar activity make a planet seem misaligned?, CoolStars19, Uppsala, Sweden Poster presentation of Exploring the impact of stellar activity on high-precision photometric transit observations,twenty years of giant exoplanets, Saint-Michel-l Observatoire, France Poster presentation of Stellar activity and transmission spectroscopy Can the occultation of a plage mimic the blue sky on HD189733b and GJ3470b?, 2nd CHEOPS Science Meeting, Venice, Italy Poster presentation of Probing the effect of gravitational microlensing on the measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, Exoplanet Observations with the E-ELT, ESO Garching, Germany Poster presentation of The effect of stellar spots on the high precision transit light curve, Kepler Science Conference II, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Poster presentation of The effect of stellar spots on the high precision transit light curve, 11th CoRoT week, Tenerife, Spain Poster presentation of Characterizing the configuration of planetary systems: the case for active stars in Planet Formation and Evolution conference, Munich, Germany Poster presentation of A Survey of Transit Timing Variations of M Stars Among Keplers Targets: Evidence for Possible New Companions in Extreme Solar Systems meeting, Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming, USA Poster presentation of A survey of M stars in the field of view of Kepler space telescope in the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium 276, The Astrophysics of Planetary Systems: Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution, Torino, Italy. Computational and language Skills Programming Languages: Python, C/C++, Fortran, R(RStudio), Matlab, Maple, IDL, HTML Operating Systems: Windows(XP/7/8/10), Unix/Linux. Software: Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Latex, TOPCAT, Sigmaplot8, Table curve. Language: English (full professional proficiency), Persian (native, mother tongue), Portuguese (intermediate, A2 level certificate), German (basic) Arabic (basic). Contact Details of references These persons are familiar with my professional qualifications and my character: Prof. Dr. Stefan Dreizler Professor of Astronomy, Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany dreizler@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de Tel: Prof. Dr. Nuno C. Santos Professor of Astronomy, Department of physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science of University of Porto, Portugal. nuno.santos@astro.up.pt Tel: Prof. Dr. Nader Haghighipour Professor of Astronomy, Institute for Astronomy and NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Hawaii,

8 USA Tel: Prof. Dr. Ansgar Reiners Professor of Astronomy, Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany Dr. Pedro Figueira ESO Paranal Operations Staff Astronomer, ESO Santiago, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile Dr. Isabelle Boisse Lecturer at Laboratoire d Astrophysique de Marseille, France Isabelle.Boisse@lam.fr Dr. Gwenaël Boué Lecturer at UPMC / Observatoire de Paris, France boue@imcce.fr

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