prof. dr. E. (Else) Starkenburg

I completed my Ph.D. titled "Galactic Archaeology in and around the Milky Way" at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen.

From 2012 until 2014, I held an independent postdoctoral position at the University of Victoria in Canada as a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Global Scholar and Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) National Fellow.

In 2014, I moved to the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, Germany as Karl Schwarzschild Fellow, where I started my own independent research group "The Early Milky Way” with an Emmy Noether Prize Fellowship. As part of this fellowship I had the pleasure to be the promotor and supervisor for PhD students Kris Youakim (PhD thesis) and Anke Arentsen (PhD thesis see also Anke's webpage). Both have very successfully defended their PhD thesis in 2020 and have moved on to postdoc positions within astronomy in Stockholm University, Sweden and Strasbourg Observatory, France. Moreover, I was a co-supervisor for the PhD thesis of Federico Sestito (PhD thesis), who graduaded at Strasbourg Observatory and spent almost a year of his PhD visiting my group in Potsdam. Federico currently holds a postdoctoral research position at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Since September 2020, I am back at the Kapteyn Institute as a tenure-track staff member. I work together with PhD-student Akshara Viswanathan and in collaboration with other members of the institute, such as in the "Galaxia" research group.