Marianne Vestergaard

Education

• Ph. D. in Astrophysics, Copenhagen University, 1999
• M. Sc. in Astrophysics, Copenhagen University, 1992
• B. Sc. in Astronomy, Copenhagen University, 1988
• B. Sc. in Physics, Copenhagen University, 1988

The university degrees in Astronomy are all from the Copenhagen University Observatory (CUObs), Denmark. CUObs is the astronomy department at the Niels Bohr Institute, NBI. NBI is part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Copenhagen University. The Bachelor of Physics was obtained from the H. C. Ørsted Institute (now a subset of NBIfAFG) at Copenhagen University.

• Assistant Professor, Tufts University (2007 - present)
• Post doctoral Research Associate, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona (2003 - 2007)
• Post doctoral Research Associate, Ohio State University (2002 - 2003)
• Post doctoral Fellow (Columbus Fellow), Ohio State University (1999 - 2002)
• Dissertation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1993 - 1999)
• Master's Thesis, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, The Netherlands, and Copenhagen University (1991 - 1992)

• The Columbus Fellowship, Dept. of Astronomy, The Ohio State University (1999 - 2002)
• The Danish Natural Science Foundation Fellowship (1993 - 1996)
• The Danish Research Academy Grant (1993-1994)
• The Knud Højgaards Fond Grant (~1992-1993)
• The European Community Science Research Grant (1991-1992)

• 2006 HST Cycle 15 GO Proposal, ``Host Galaxies of Reverberation-Mapped AGNs'',
  P. I.: Prof. B. M. Peterson
• 2005 HST Cycle 14 Archival Proposal, ``Accuracy of Quasar Black Hole Mass Estimates'',
  P. I.: M. Vestergaard,
• 2005 HST Cycle 14 GO Proposal, ``Host Galaxies of Reverberation-Mapped AGNs'',
  P. I.: Prof. B. M. Peterson
• 2004 HST Cycle 13 GO Proposal, ``Low-Ionization BALs: Evolution or Orientation?'',
  P. I.: Dr. X. Fan
• 2004 HST Cycle 13 GO Proposal, ``Host Galaxies and Environments of the Most Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe'',
  P. I.: Dr. X. Fan
• 2003 HST Cycle 12 SNAP Proposal, ``Host Galaxies of Reverberation-Mapped AGNs'',
  P. I.: Prof. B. M. Peterson
• 2002 HST Cycle 11 Archival Proposal, ``Iron Emission: A Powerful Probe of the Quasar Central Engine'',
  P. I.: M. Vestergaard,
• 2002 HST Cycle 11 SNAP Proposal, ``STIS/UV Snapshot Survey of Bright AGN'',
  P. I.: Dr. N. Arav

• "AGN Winds in the Caribbean", St. John, Nov/Dec 2005
• Drexel University, Philadephia, February 2006
• "Physics and Astrophysics of Supermassive Black-Holes", Santa Fe, July 2006
• University of California, Riverside, October 2006
• University of Bristol, England, November 2006
• Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, November 2006
• Tufts University, Boston, February 2007
• Yale University, New Haven, March 2007
• STScI Symposium on Black Holes, Baltimore, April 2007
• MPIA meeting on "Impact of AGN Feedback on Galaxy Formation", Ringberg Castle, Munich, May 2007
• MIT, Boston, April 2008

• Kaikohe Rotary Club, Kaikohe, New Zealand, March 2007
• Northcross Intermediate School (Independent Learning Classes), Auckland, New Zealand, April 2007

• January 7, 2003, ``Black Holes Form First, Galaxies Follow: New Quasar Study'' by Pam Frost Gorder;
  this article also appeared in:
  • Science Blog , January 2003
  • Le Monde, France, February 2003
  • SpaceHike
• January 8, 2002, ``An Easy Method For Estimating Mass Of Distant Black Holes'' by Pam Frost Gorder

• April 2003, Discover Magazine, Vol. 24, no. 4, article: ``In the Beginning, All Was - Black Holes?'' by Maia Weinstock; article at http://www.discover.com/search/ (search on `Marianne Vestergaard')
• February 2003, ``Research helps explain galaxies'' by student reporter Lindsay Holmwood

• Lecturer and instructor, Astronomy-9, Concepts of the Cosmos for non-science majors (Winter 2008)
• Lecturer and instructor, Large Scale Structures in the Universe, science majors (1994 - 1996)
• Lecturer and instructor, Two-dimensional Photometry with IRAF, science majors (1994 - 1996)

• Member of the Space Telescope Users Committee
• Chandra X-ray Telescope Allocation Peer review panelist
• Referee for Astrophysical Journal (main journal and Letters), Astronomical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics

• American Astronomical Society
• Marie Curie Fellowship Association

The variation in quasar UV broad emission-line profiles with radio power and with source inclination are analysed for clues to the fundamental differences between the radio-loud and radio-quiet subclasses.
(Extended abstract)

Advisors

• Dr. Belinda Wilkes, High Energy Astrophysics Division, CfA/Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
• Dr. Peter Barthel Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen University, The Netherlands.
• Lektor Leif Hansen, Copenhagen University (retired)

m.vestergaard@tufts.edu.