Curriculum Vitae. Saleem Zaroubi Associate Professor of Astrophysics

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1 Curriculum Vitae Saleem Zaroubi Associate Professor of Astrophysics Personal Information: Contact Information: Date of Birth: October 14,1963 Address: Kapteyn Astronomical Institute Place of Birth: Nazareth, Israel Univ. of Groningen Family: Married + 1 Landleven AD Groningen The Netherlands Phone: (office) (home) Fax: saleem@astro.rug.nl Education: 1995: Ph.D.in Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1989: M.Sc., Physics, The Technion, Haifa. 1987: B.Sc., cum laude, Physics, The Technion, Haifa. Major Research Interest: Astrophysics: Cosmology, Large Scale Structure statistics, The Epoch of Reionization, Dynamics of Gravitating Systems, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy, Redshift Surveys and related subjects. Medical Physics: Image Restoration and Statistical Inference Methods for MRI and fmri. Work Experience: : Associate Professor, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands : Assistant Professor, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands : Senior research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany Researcher at the Dept. of Medical Biophysics, Hadassah Hebrew Univ. Hospital, Jerusalem : Research Fellow, Dept. of Astronomoy and the CfPA, Univ. of California, Berkeley : Teaching assistant in physics, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem : Teaching assistant in physics, The Technion,Haifa : Teaching physics and mathematics in high school in Nazareth. Membership of Projects: Member of the Interanational Astronomical Union Co-PI of the LOFAR Epoch of Reionization project Associate of the ESA Planck Surveyor Mission Low- and High-Frequency Instrument Science Teams. 1

2 : Co-investigator on the GIF Foundation (GIF) project on COSMOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF DARK MATTER, BARYONS & GALAXIES Member in the European RTN network of The Cosmic Microwave Background Member in the European RTN network of Physics of The Intergalactic Medium Grant Support: Principal-Investigator of an NWO free-competition grant for postdoc and equipement. Project title: Statistical Calibration of the New Generation Radio Telescopes. Amount 223 ke Principal-Investigator of an NWO open-competition grant for postdoc and equipement. Project title: The IGM Properties Prior-to & During Reionization. Amount 190 ke. 2005: PI. Support of the Conference Reionizing the Universe from NWO, NOVA, KNAW and Kapteyn- Chair-holder (Prof. dr. van der Kruit). Total amount of support: 25 ke. 2004: Co-Investigator in LOFAR development projects, PIs: Dr. H.J.A. Rötgering and Dr. M. van Haarlem. Funded by the NOVA 2, NOVA 3, NWO-M, and SNN programs, The otal amount of these projects is 1.5 Me. Fellowships and Awards: A Hebrew University Postdoctoral Award. 1984, The Technion s President Prize for Exceptional Undergraduates. PhD Students current and past May 2009: Mr. Rajat Mani Thomas. PhD project title: Cosmological Reionization Simulations for LO- FAR March 2010 (anticipated): Mr. Panos Labropoulos. PhD project title: The LOFAR Telescope Data Model for the Epoch of Reionization Project. (with Prof. Dr. L.V.E. Koopmans) May 2010 (anticipated): Mr. Vibor Jelic. PhD project title: The Epoch of Reionization: Finding the needle in the hay stack. November 2011 (anticipated): Mr. Mohammad Abdul Latif. PhD project title: Formation of First Stars and Black Holes. May 2012(anticipated): Mr. Andre Offringa, PhD project title: Pattern Recognition in the LOFAR EoR Peta-byte Dataset (with Prof. Dr. A.G. de Bruyn). Oct (anticipated): Ms. Sanaz Kazemi, PhD Project title: Statistical Calibration of the Next Generation Radio Telescopes Masters and Bachelor projects Masters Projects: 1. Mr. Vibor Jelic (Univeristy of Zagreb). Master thesis Project (2005). Project title: Temperature of the Intergalactic Medium: Measurement from the Lyman-alpha and Beta forests. Mr. Jelic received the 2005 University of Zagreb Rector s Reward for Master thesis projects. 2. Mr. Maartin Breddels, (together with Prof. Dr. E. Tolstoy), Project title: Chemical Evolution of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy and its implications on the EoR, finished: 13 Feb., Mr. Wouter Oasterheer. Project title: Nongaussianity and structure formation in the Universe, expected to finish in the summer of

3 4. Mr. Jouke Jensma. Projecttitle: Signature of spin temperature evolution on the statistics of the 21-cm signal, expected to finish in the summer of Bachelor Projects (Kleinonderzoek): 1. Ms. Wendy Doctors, Project title: Determining the cosmological parameters Omega m and σ 8 from peculiar velocity and density contrast data, finished on 16, Oct., Mr. Jouke Jensma, Project title: Constraining Dark Matter through the spin temperature, finished on 16, Oct., Mr. Johans T. Buist, Project title: Upper limits on the density of dark matter in the solar system, finished on 30, Jan., Mr. Gijs de Goeijen, Project title: Very Large Scale Simulations of Cosmological Reionzation, finished on 26, Aug Misc. Professional Activities: Referee for Grant Proposals and membership in review panels o : DFG proposal reviewer : Member of the free competition program committee for NWO (the Dutch science foundation) : Memeber of the review panel of DFG priority +program on the Formation and Evolution of Black Holes, Galaxies and their +Environments : Member of the VIDI program committee for NWO (the Dutch science foundation) , 2008, 2010: Referee for the Israel Science Foundation grants PhD theses external examiner or member of reading committee Dr. Naser Yahya, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen Dr. Kirsty Rhook, IoA Cambridge Dr. Chris Ormel, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen Dr. Sunghye Baek, Paris Observatory Dr. Andreas Pawlik, Leiden Observatory Dr. Simona Vegetti, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen. Interenational conferences: Organization and membership in scientifc advisory committees : Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the conference entitled: A new golden age for radio astronomy: first results from the new generation of radio telescopes, The Netherlands, June, : Member of the scientific advisory committee of the workshop Focus Week on the Epoch of Reionization, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo (Kashiwa), Tokyo, November 30 - December 3, : co-chair of the organizing committee of the meeting Reionization with Multi-frequency Datasets, August 2009, Stockholm, Sweden : Member of the scientific advisory committee of the Astrophysics with E-LOFAR meeting, Hamburg, Germany : Member of the scientific advisory committee of the Institute d Astrophysique de Paris 2008 colloquium entitled: Far Away: Light in the Young Universe at Redshift beyond Three. 3

4 : Chair of the organizing committee of the Reionizing the Universe: The Epoch of Reionization and the Physics of the IGM Conference. June 27 th - July 1 st, Groningen, The Netherlands : Co-chair of the MPA/ESO/MPE Joint Astronomy Conference Mining the Sky, Garching, Germany Professional Services : PI of the signal modelling and extraction (theory) working group of the LOFAR Epoch of Reionization project : Co-organizer of the Kapteyn Institute colloquium : Organizer of the Kapteyn Institute cosmology seminar : Co-organizer of the Max-Planck Inst. for Astrophysics weekly Cosmology Seminar : Co-organizer of the Center for Particle Astrophy. (UC Berkeley) weekly seminar : Co-organizer of the Astronomy Dept. (UC Berkeley) weekly Informal Cosmology seminar. Extended Visits 2002: Visiting member of the Instiute for Theoretical Physics, Univ. of California, Santa-Barbara. 1998: Visiting Scientist (Aug. Oct.) at the dept. of Astronomy, The University of California, Berkeley. 1997: Visiting Scientist (Feb. July) the Hebrew University Jerusalem Invited Talks and Colloquia 2010 May., Invited review on reionization at the conference entitle: High Time Resolution Astrophysics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes, Crete, Greece Feb., Invited review on reionization at Beyond 2010 the Fifth International Conference on BEYOND THE STANDARD MODELS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPHYSICS, Cape Town, South Africa 2010 Jan., Colloquium a in the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium at the University of Heidelberg. 2009: Nov., Invited review entitled Reionization and LOFAR, in a reionization workshop help at the IPMU, Tokyo. 2009: Nov., Invited talk entitled Measuring Reionization with the Square Kilometre Array, SKADS Conference, Chateau de Limelette (near Brussels), Belgium. 2009: March, Invited Review entitled Hyperfine transitions: the view from hydrogen at the REIONIZA- TION@RINGBERG: The Cosmic Evolution of Helium and Hydrogen conference, Ringberg Castle (near Munich), Germany. 2009: Feb., colloquium entitled, LOFAR and the Universe s dark ages, IPMU, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. 2008: Nov., colloquium entitled, Probing the Epoch of Reionization with LOFAR, Nijmegen. 2008: September, Invited review entitled, Probing the EoR with LOFAR at the Astrophysics with E- LOFAR, Hamburg, Germany. 2008: July, Invited review entitled, Probing the EoR with the redshifted 21 cm line at the XXIVth IAP Conference Far Away: Light in the young Universe, Paris, France. 2008: June, colloquium entitled, Probing the End of the Universe s Dark Ages with LOFAR, Bielefeld, Germany. 4

5 2008: April, colloquium entitles, The 21 cm as a probe of the high redshift Universe Zurich, Switserland 2007: July, Invited Review entitled Analysis of the 21cm Data at the Data Analysis in Cosmology 2007, Santander, Spain. 2007: June, Colloquium entitled Lofar and the Epoch of Reionization, Univ. of Amsterdam. 2007: May, Invited review entitled The Epoch of Reionization at the XIXémes Rencontres de Blois Matter and energy in the Universe: from nucleosynthesis to cosmology, Blois, France. 2007: March, Invited talk entitle The End of the Universe s Dark Ages at Frontiers of Science and Engineering symposium Sevile, Spain. 2007: March, Colloquium entitled Lofar and the Epoch of Reionization at IAS, Univeriste Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. 2006: November. Invited talk at the 6dF velocities survey workshop, UCL, London. 2005: November. Colloquium at the University of Bologna, Italy. The Lyman-α Forest as a Cosmological Probe. 2005: July. Invited talk at the UCL (Univeristy College London) Cumberland Cosmology Colloquium 2005, LOFAR as a Probe of Cosmological Reionization 2005: January. Invited tallk at the Dutch Astroparticle Symposium, Cosmological Reionisation 2004: December. Colloquium at Astron, Cosmology from the Lyman-α Forest. 2004: November. Colloquium at Utrecht, Cosmology from the Lyman-α Forest. 2004: May. Invited Review on the Thermal History of the IGM, in the workshop entitled: The Large Scale Structure of Gas and Mass, held at the Technion, Haifa. 2002: November. Invited seminar on Reionization of the Intergalactic Medium, given at the Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitã degli Studi di Torino, Italy 2002: June. Colloquium on Reionization and the Thermal History of the Intergalactic Medium at Kapteyn Institute, Groningen. 2001: November. Invited talk on Temperature Fluctuations in the Intergalactic Medium at Imperial College, London. 2001: July. Invited plenary Review on Progress in Mapping the Large Scale Structure of the Universe at the XIII-mes Recontres de Blois Conference Frontiers of the Universe 2000: October, Invited Talk on Peculiar Velocities and the Large Scale Structure, at the Cosmology in the New Millennium Workshop, Shanghai, China. 2000: July. Invited talk on The Non-Gaussianity observed in the COBE/DMR Sky Maps at the Cosmic Microwave Background session, The Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome 2000: July. Invited talk on Deprojection of Rich Cluster Images at the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect session, The Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome 1999: March. Colloquium at: Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. 1998: May. Colloquium at: Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. 1995: November. Invited talk on Large Scale Power Spectrum from Peculiar Velocities at the 1st RESCEU International Symposium, The Cosmological Constant and the Evolution of the Universe, Tokyo, Japan. 5

6 1995: Invited targeted talk on Wiener reconstruction, SVD and Optimal Functional bases XXXth Moriond Meeting on Clustering in the Universe, Les Arc, France Recent Seminars and Contributed talks 2009: Tokyo (NAOJ), Tokyo (Cosmic rays Intitute), Stockholm (reionization meeting), Paris (Planck meeting). 2008: Cambridge (IoA), Bologna (Planck meeting) 2007: Groningen (Young Lofar day), Haifa, Emmen, Orsay 2006: London (UCL), Oxford 2005: Garching, Germany (Conference), Dwingeloo (workshop), 2004: MIT (EoR workshop), The Technion (Workshop), Leiden (IGMnet meeting) 2003: Tokyo (NAOJ). Ambleside (cosmo03-uk), Orelon (IGMnet), Technion 2002: Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Cambridge, Oxford, MPA 2001: MPA, Cordoba (Argentina), Pisa 2000: Durham, Toulouse, Oxford, Fermilab, Caltech, Guanjuato (Mexico) 1999: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, The Technion, IoA & DMTP Cambridge, Oxford Public Talks 3 to 4 public talks per year on average. Teaching Undergraduate and graduate Courses taught 1. Courses taught in Groningen 2004/5-2005/6: Astrophysics A. Student evaluation of the lecturer: 4.4 out of /7, 2007/8: Astrophysics B. 2007/8 Statistical and Numerical methods 2008/9 & 2009/10Astrophysical Hydrodynamics 2009/2010: Physics of the Epoch 0f Reionization (Masters course) : Nominated for the faculty teaching prize for the academic year Short Courses and teaching replacements 2002: A two week course on Statistical Methods in Astronomy given for PhD students at Max-Planck institute for Astrophysics. 4. Teaching Assistant in Courses at the Hebrew University : Analytical Mechanics (undergraduate course) : Physics for Biologists (undergraduate course). Student evaluation of TA on both courses for all 4 years: Excellent Bachelor and Master students research projects coordinator (since Oct. 2005). Major-Minor Curriculum Committee. 6