Research interests
- Convection and its effects on solar/stellar abundance analysis
- Line formation in stellar atmospheres and chemical abundances in the Universe
- Diagnostics of the solar photosphere: thermal structure, dynamics, magnetism
- Supercomputation, parallel computing (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL)
- 3D visualization and image processing algorithms
- Efficient data reduction pipelines
PhD thesis
- Title: Confronting the latest generation of solar model atmospheres against observations
- Topics: convection, 3D solar models, LTE and NLTE line formation, solar observations
- Supervisors: M. Asplund (MPA), D. Kiselman (KVA), Regner Trampedach (RSAA)
- Finished: September 2009
Previous work
- Studying the possible effects of WIMPs in the solar structure using solar interior models. Constraining the SUSY WIMP parameter range with helioseismology.
- Asteroseismology, stochastic processes, pulsating sdB and gamma Dor stars
- Diploma thesis: Study of the oscillations on the sdB star PG1605+072
