Aleksandar Cikota PhD student European Southern Observatory Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Germany
Office: +49 89 3200 6161 E-mail: acikota@eso.org Skype: aleksandar_cikota |
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I am a PhD student at the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) on Astrophysics, with a position at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany.
I studied physics at the University of Zurich (2007-2011) in Switzerland and at the University of Split (2011-2012) in Croatia where I obtained my bachelor's degree (BSc) in July 2012. I did the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Program in Astrophysics (2013-2015) and obtained a joint Master's degree (MSc) of University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of Padova (Italy) and University of Belgrade (Serbia).
My research interests are various and include data reduction obtained by sky surveys (asteroid surveys), dust extinction in SN host galaxies and type Ia supernovae, observational cosmology, high accuracy astrometry of TNOs & stars, variable star and minor planet photometry. During my undergraduate studies in Switzerland, I worked for the J75 La Sagra Sky Survey in Andalusia, Spain and contributed to software development and the discovery of over 3100 minor planets (voluntary); spent two summers working on the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on type Ia supernovae at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD; started to collaborate with the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC) on Trans-Neptunian Object studies and participated on numerous smaller research projects.
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