- Anlaug Amanda Djupvik
Anlaug Amanda Djupvik is a Norwegian
astronomer . Her main field of research isstar formation and the origin of the initial mass function.She was born Anlaug Amanda Kaas, but changed her name in 2004.She was born in Førde, a small town on the west coast of Norway. She grew up in an even smaller village called Leikong on the island of
Gurskøy , which is located to the south of the city ofÅlesund . She started undergraduate studies at theInstitute of Theoretical Astrophysics inOslo in August of 1986. In January 1992 she obtained the Norwegian Cand. Scient. degree (Master of Science) with her thesis "Observations and analysis of the mutual phenomena of the Galilean satellites in 1990-1991", supervised byKaare Aksnes .From January 1992 to April 1994 she worked as a support astronomer at the
Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) inLa Palma ,Canary Islands , a student position financed byNorges forskningsråd (The Norwegian Research Council). From April 1994 to April 1999 she did her Ph.D. studies at theStockholm Observatory , Saltsjöbaden,Sweden , underGöran Olofsson . From May 1999 to May 2000 she held a post-doc position at the Astrophysics Division of theEuropean Space Agency , ESTEC,Noordwijk , working withMalcolm Fridlund . In the period 2000-2002 she was a member of a committee of the Norwegian Research Council. Since May 2000 she has been employed as an astronomer at the NOT, first as deputy astronomer in charge and later (2002) as acting astronomer-in-charge.External links
* [http://www.not.iac.es/~amanda/ Personal page at the NOT]
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