I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the Astronomy Group at ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy), working as part of the research team of Michael Garrett. I'm also an official guest at the Leiden Observatory, where I work on Mondays and Fridays in close collaboration with Paul van der Werf, Rowin Meijerink and my husband, Edo Loenen . Other usuall collaborators include John McKean and Marco Spaans
As one of the PhD students funded by the Marie Curie Research Training Network "ANGLES" (Astrophysics Network for Galaxy LEnsing Studies), the research that I carried out during my PhD was focused on gravitational lensing and radio continuum interferometric observations. Through this work I've become very interested in the study of high-redshift (z ~ 2) dust obscured star-forming galaxies (the so called sub-mm galaxies), and the use of gravitational lenses as natural telescopes to study the internal structure of galaxies using radio/mm interferometric data. Now I'm moving towards millimeter interferometry and observations of molecular lines in high-z lensed objects. I'm also the PI of a Herschel proposal to obtain SPIRE photometry in a sample of ~100 lensed QSOs.
