Homepage of Carsten Dominik

• Director of the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy since 2021
• Full Professor at University of Amsterdam 2014
• Special Professor at Radboud University 2008-2014
• Associate Professor 2008
• Assistant Professor 2003
• Postdoc at University of Amsterdam, 1999-2003
• Postdoc at Leiden University, Netherlands, 1995-1999
• National Research Council Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center 1993-1995
• PhD 1993, Technical University Berlin

A more detailed CV can be found in this PDF file.

My publications can be found at the Astrophysics Data System, at Google Scholar, and at orcid.org. Two of my papers are not accessible through open access from the journal, but you can read them here:

• Resistance to rolling in the adhesive contact of two elastic spheres, by C. Dominik and A.G.G.M. Tielens, 1995, Philosophical Magazine A, Volume 72, page 783.
• Resistance to sliding on atomic scales in the adhesive contact of two elastic spheres, by C. Dominik and A.G.G.M. Tielens, 1996, Philosophical Magazine A, Volume 73, page 1279.

• Niels Swinkels, pre-master student
• Joel George, master student

• Dominik Paszun, PhD 2008, has left astronomy and with working as a consultent.
• Mihkel Kama, PhD 2013, after that Postdocs in Leiden and Cambridge, he is starting as an Lecturer at University College London.
• Michiel Min, Postdoc and VENI grant holder in Amsterdam and Utrecht until 2015, now leader of the exoplanet group at SRON.
• Gijs Mulders, PhD 2013, and after Postdoc positions in Tucson and Chicago, now Assistent Professor at the Universidad Adolfo Ibanez in Santiago de Chile.
• Sebastiaan Krijt, PhD 2014 (Leiden, Promotor A. Tielens and C. Dominik), went on to a postdoc at Chicago University, with F. Ciesla, a Hubble fellowship at the University of Arizona. He has now joined the University of Exeter’s Astrophysics group as a lecturer.
• Rik van Lieshout, PhD 2015, after that he was a postdoc at Cambridge University.
• Lucas Ellerbroek, Postdoc, then institute manager at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, now research director at eLEAF.
• Tomas Stolker, PhD student, working on protoplanetary disks in polarized light. He went on to a fellowship at the ETH Zurich and now is assistent professor at Leiden University.
• Kaustubh Hakim PhD 2018, then postdoc at the University of Bern, now senior scientist with a joint appointment at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and the Royal Observatory of Belgium
• Lucia Klarmann, PhD 2018, then postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, now a data scientist at Heidelberg Cement.
• Allona Vazan, Postdoc, then Postdoc at the Hebrew University in Israel. Currently she is faculty at the Open University of Israel.
• Chris Ormel, Vidi laureate, now associate professor at Department of Astronomy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China
• Gabriela Muro Arena, PhD student, works now a data scientist.
• Christian Ginski, Postdoc, works on observations of disks and planets, with SPHERE. After another postdoc in Leiden, now a lecturer lecturer at the University of Galway in Ireland.
• Rico Visser, PhD 2022, worked on pebble accretion.
• Ryo Tazaki, postdoc working on the optical properties of dust aggragates. Now he is a CNES Postdoctral fellow at the Université Grenoble Alpes.
• Kevin Lange, PhD student, PhD 2024 with a study of PAHs in planet-forming disks.
• Per Gunnar Valegård, PhD student, PhD 2024, works as a Higschool teacher at an international school

• OpTool - A command line tool to compute dust opacities. The tool is hosted on GitHub.

Here is a list of the Emacs packages I wrote. Most have been integrated into Emacs, the rest is still maintained by me and distributed through MELPA.

• ads - Constructing Astrophysics Data System (ADS) queries on the command line
• dirabbrev - Using abbreviations for directories in the shell

The SystemRPL entry database and related information. SystemRPL is the internal programming language for HP calculators (HP48 and later).