Academic CV

Full CV in PDF format is available at http://Fvandonkelaar.github.io/files/CV.pdf

Appointments

Herschel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Institute of Astronomy & Kavli Institute for Cosmology
Oct 2025 – Present

Education

PhD in Computational Astrophysics
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Sep 2021 – Sep 2025

Thesis: Disc Galaxies and Their Components at High Redshift: Similarities with the Local Universe
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucio Mayer

MSc in Astrophysics
Lund University, Sweden
Aug 2019 – May 2021
GPA: 3.83 / 4.00

Thesis: The fate of stars born in gas-rich high redshift galaxies
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Oscar Agertz

BSc in Sociotechnical Engineering, Minor in Modern Physics
University of Twente (ATLAS), The Netherlands
Sep 2016 – Jul 2019
GPA: 3.85 / 4.00

Thesis: The Star Formation Rate, Metallicity and Thermal Pressure in Galaxies at z = 0.4 using MUSE
Supervisor: Dr. Kasper Borello Schmidt (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam)

Early Research Experience

Oxford University
Research Internship
Jun 2020 – Nov 2020

Supervisor: Dr. Kearn Grisdale
Analyzing GMCs in the Large Magellanic Cloud using N-body hydrodynamical simulations.

Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik, Potsdam
Summer Project
Jul 2017

Supervisor: Dr. Kasper Borello Schmidt
Generating template spectra of MUSE-Wide emission line sources.