Ignas Snellen - Curriculum Vitae#

Snellen’s research focuses on the atmospheric characterization of extrasolar planets. The high-dispersion spectroscopic techniques he initiated and developed now form the basis of major science cases for instrumentation on the European Extremely Large Telescopes. His research achievements include many firsts, such as the ground-based transmission spectrum and thermal emission from a hot Jupiter, the detection of carbon monoxide and water, the optical phase curve and the spin of an exoplanet, and the first isotope measurement.

Education:

• 1993 - 1997 PhD in Astronomy, Leiden University
  Thesis: A population study of faint Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum sources
  Promotor: Prof. Dr. R.T. Schilizzi Co-Promotor: Prof. Dr. G.K. Miley

Memberships of scientific societies:

• Royal Netherlands Astronomical Society (KNA)
  
• European Astronomical Society (EAS)
  
• International Astronomical Union (IAU)
  
• The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
  
• Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW)

Impact on young researchers:

Twelve of Snellen’s group members have now tenured positions (Albrecht at Aarhus University, Hekker at MPS in Göttingen, de Mooij at Queens Belfast, Brogi at University of Warwick, Birkby at Oxford, van Eylen at MSSL, Hoeijmakers at Lund, Kesseli at NASA-JPL, Ginski at Galway, Gandhi at Warwick; Haffert at Leiden; Zhang at MPIA). Four of his team members received prestigious NASA fellowships (Matteo Brogi - Hubble Fellowship ; Jayne Birkby, Sebastiaan Haffert, and Yapeng Zhang - Sagan Fellowships.