staff astronomer
ESO
Garching, Bayern, Germany
Valentin D. Ivanov (Bulgarian: Валентин Д. Иванов) is a Bulgarian astronomer working in the European Southern Observatory. Among his primary research areas are the star clusters, formation of stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets. He is also intersted in infrared instrumentaiton and in astronomical outreach.
Valentin D. Ivanov was born in the town of Bourgas, Bulgaria. He obtained his master's degree in physics and astronomy at the University of Sofia in 1992. He earned a PhD degree at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S. in 2001. He became a fellow at the European Southern Observatory, on La Silla and Cerro Paranal. In 2003-2014 he was a staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Paranal where he was an instrument scientist for a number of near-infrared instruments, including SofI at the NTT, ISAAC and VISIR at the VLT, and the wide-field camera VIRCAM mounted at the VISTA (telescope). He moved to the ESO headquarters in 2015 where he is working at the science-grade data products group.
Disclosure information not submitted.
6C-3 - Popular Astronomy in the Mainstream Media
Friday, August 23, 2024
9:45 AM – 10:35 AM US PDT
