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Hi, my name is Miriam Rengel and I am from Caracas, Venezuela. If you are interested

in my professional experience, here you can find it.  I am familiar with astronomical standard softwares (IDL, IRAF, MIDAS), and particularly have done photometry on sub-mm images using SURF. I have previous experience programming in FORTRAN and HTML, and other standard scientific packets enclose also the list of my computer skills (e.g Mathematica and supermongo). Competent with most Microsoft & Linux computer programmes. Knowledge in internet systems. I speak Spanish, English, and German.  

Curriculum vitae

MIRIAM  

Personal data

FAMILY NAME:			Rengel Lamus

GIVEN NAME:			Miriam Elina

PLACE OF BIRTH:		       Caracas - Venezuela

DATE OF BIRTH:		       09 - July- 1972

MARITAL STATUS:	               Single

PROFESSION:		       Dr. rer. nat.

                               M.Sc. in Fundamental Physics

                               B.Sc. in Physics (Licenciatura) 

MAIN LANGUAGE:		       Spanish

OTHER LANGUAGES:	       English (high proficiency level)

			       German (medium proficiency level)

Education

Qualification:          Dr. rer. nat.
                                FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAET
                        Jena, Germany. August 2000 -
July 2004

Qualification:          Magister Scientiau in Fundamental Physics

                                UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES 
Mérida, Venezuela. March 1997 - July 2000 Qualification: Bachelor of Science (Licenciate) in Physics UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR.
Caracas, Venezuela. September 1989 - January 1996 Qualification: High School Graduate in Sciences a) UNIDAD EDUCATIVA JUAN DE ESCALONA Caracas, Venezuela. September 1985 - July 1989. b) MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION Y CIENCIA. SECRETARIA GENERAL Y TECNICA Madrid, España. September 1985 - July 1990.

Work experience

Scientific Staff 
 Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. 
Katlenburg-Lindau. Germany. October 2005 - To date.
Associate (Science Visitor)
 European Southern Observatory. 
Garching. Germany. February 2005 - May 2005.
Wissenschaltliche Mitarbeiterin (Researcher)
 Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg. 
Tautenburg. Germany. June 2004 - September 2004.
Wissenschaltliche Mitarbeiterin (Ph.D. Researcher)

 Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg. 
Tautenburg. Germany. August 2000 - August 2003. Physics Teacher for Research and Development FUNDACION CENTRO NACIONAL PARA EL MEJORAMIENTO DE LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA CIENCIA, CENAMEC
(CENTER NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF SCIENCE TEACHING) Physics Department. Caracas. Venezuela. October 1995 - March 1997. Physics Laboratory Teaching Assistant (High and Basic level laboratories) UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR Physics Department.
Caracas. Venezuela. January 1995 - December 1995. Physics Co-ordination Teaching Assistant UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR Physics Co-ordination.
Caracas. Venezuela. January 1995 - December 1995.

Scientific meetings

Science with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX); 
       Schloss Ringberg. 12-15 February 2012.
EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011;
       Nantes. France. 02-07 October 2011.
8th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2011);
       Taipei. Taiwan. 8-12 August 2011.
General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2011);
       Vienna. Austria. 3-8 April 2011.
The impact of Herschel surveys on ALMA Early Science;
       Garching, 16-19 November 2010.
42th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Assotiation (DPS 2010);
       Pasadena. USA. October 3-8 2010.
7th Annual General Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2010);
       Hyderabad, 5-9 July 2010.
ALMA Band 5 Workshop;
       Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy, May 24-25, 2010.
Herschel First Results Symposium (aka ESLAB 2010);
       ESTEC, Noordwijk, 4-7 May 2010.
Herschel Science Demonstration Phase Initial Results Workshop;
      Facultad de Informática - Universidad Politénica de Madrid, 17-18 December 2009.
Herschel Science Demonstration Phase Data Processing Workshop;
      ESAC, Villafranca del Castillo, 14-16 December 2009.
41st annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society;
       Fajardo, Puerto Rico, USA, October 4-9 2009.
Annual Fall Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG), "Deciphering the Universe through Spectroscopy";
       Potsdam, September 21-25, 2009.
6th Annual General Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2009);
       Singapore, Aug 11-15, 2009.
4th International Sakharov Conference on Physics;
       Lebedev Institute, Moscow, Russia. 18-23 May 2009.
Herschel 'hands-on' Data Processing Workshop;
       ESAC, Madrid. Spain. 24-25 March 2009.
Herschel Pre-Launch Data Processing Workshop;
       ESAC, Madrid. Spain. 4-5 December 2008.
JENAM 2008 (Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting) - "NEW CHALLENGES TO EUROPEAN ASTRONOMY";
       Vienna. Austria. 8- 12 September 2008.
Asia Oceania Geosciencies Society 5th Meeting;
       Busan. Korea. 16- 20 June 2008.
Outer Planet Flagship Mission Instrument Workshop;
       California USA, June 3-5, 2008.
General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union;
       Vienna. Austria. April 14-18 2008.
Herschel Space Observatory, Calibration Workshop 2
       CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 6-8 February 2008;
Venus Express Ground-based Observational Campaign Workshop
       ESTEC, Noordwijk, December 17-21 2007
XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting;
       Isla Margarita. Venezuela. October 22- 26 2007.
39th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association (DPS 2007);
       Florida. USA. October 7-12 2007.
Asia Oceania Geosciencies Society 4th Meeting;
       Bangkok. Thailand. 31 July - 4 August 2007.
General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union;
       Vienna. Austria. April 15-20 2007.
Herschel Open Time Key Program workshop,
        ESTEC, Noordwijk, 20-21 February 2007;
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #17.06
        California, USA, October 8-13, 2006.
IAU XXVIth General Assembly;
        Prague, Chezk Republic, August 14-25,2006.
Deep Impact as a world observatoty event;
        Brussels, Belgium, August 7-10, 2006.
General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union;
       Vienna. Austria. April 2006.
AG2005 "The many facets of the universe - Revelations by New Instruments" (79th Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft);
       Cologne. Germany. September 2005.
AG2003 "The Sun and Planetary System" (77th Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft);
       Freiburg. Germany. September 2003.
AG2002 "The Cosmic circuit of Matter" (76th Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft);
       Berlin. Germany. September 2002.
ESO Workshop "Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems"
       Garching. Germany. August 2002.
DFG-Kolloquium zum Schwerpunktprogramm "Physik der Sternentstehung"
       Bad Honnef. Germany. November 2001.
IRAM Summer School 2001 "mm Observing Techniques and Applications"
       Sierra Nevada. Spain. September 2001.
JENAM 2001: "Five Days of Creation: Astronomy with Large Telescopes from Ground and Space
(10th European and 75th Annual Assembly of Astronomische Gesellschaft)".
       Munich. Germany. September 2001.
Workshop "The Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View".
       ESO. Garching. Germany. April 2001.
IAU Symposium 207 "Extragalactic Star Clusters".
       Pucón, Chile. March 2001.
DFG-Kolloquium zum Schwerpunktprogramm "Physik der Sternentstehung"
       Bad Honnef. Germany. October 2000.
V Venezuelan School of Relativity, Fields and Astrophysics.
       Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. November 1999.
Workshop "The First Stars".
       ESO. Garching. Germany. August 1999.
X Canary Islands Winter school of Astrophysics "Globular Clusters".
       Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain. November 1998.
First Meeting of the European Star & Planet Formation Network (ESFON).
       Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie. Heidelberg, Germany. October 1998.
III Venezuelan School of Relativity, Fields and Astrophysics.
       Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. November 1997.
II Venezuelan School of Relativity, Fields and Astrophysics.
       Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. November 1996.
I Venezuelan School of Relativity, Fields and Astrophysics.
       Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. October 1995.
I National Congress of Physics students.
       Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela. June 1993
XV National Congress of Amateur Astronomy. Venezuelan Society of Natural Sciences.
       Caracas, Venezuela. October 1992.
II Inter-American Conference on Education in Physics.
       Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela. July 1991
III Regional Convention of L.I.A.D.A. (Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomía).
       Humboldt Planetarium. Caracas, Venezuela. April 1991.


Scientific talks

-February 2012: APEX observations of the atmospheres of Titan and Venus. Science with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), Schloss Ringberg, Germany.
-February 2012: Observing our Solar System with the Eyes of Herschel. Cosmoly Seminar Series, FSU Physics Department, Florida, via live streaming.
-September 2011: Looking at the key atmospheric gases in Titan with Herschel/PACS and APEX/SHFI, European Planetary Science Congress 2011, Nantes, France.
-August 2011: Recent Sub-millimeter Heterodyne Observations of CO in Venus's Mesosphere obtained with HHSMT and APEX, 8th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Taipei, Taiwan. 
-February 2011: El Sistema Solar Visto por el Telescopio Espacial Herschel. Primer Especial 50 Aniversario Planetario Humboldt. Caracas, Venezuela. 
 (ppt)-  (pdf) 
-November 2010: Observing our Solar System with the Eyes of Herschel. Les Jeudis des sciences, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg.
-November 2010: The Titan and Venus atmospheres from ground and space-based observations, The impact of Herschel surveys on ALMA Early Science, Garching, Germany.
-October 2010 : The Composition of Titan's Atmosphere as seen by Herschel / PACS, 42nd annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, DPS, Pasadena, USA.
-July 2010 : Titan's atmospheric composition as seen by Herschel / PACS, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 7th Annual Meeting, Hyderabad, India.
-May 2010 : Planetary atmospheres with the ALMA Band 5, ALMA Band 5 Workshop, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy.
-March 2010 : Taller de AstrofĂ­sica, High School: U. E. N. Juan de Escalona, Caracas, Venezuela.
-September 2009: H2O, HCN, and CO in Titan's Atmosphere - A Challenge for Herschel, AG 2009, Potsdam.
-August 2009: Heterodyne observations of CO and HCN in Titan's atmosphere in preparation for Herschel, AOGS 2009, Singapore.
-May 2009: Tracing High Energy Radiation with Molecular Lines Emitted by the Deeply Embedded Protostar L1634 , 4th International Sakharov Conference on Physics, Moscow, Russia, Invited
-December 2008: A new peculiar Class 0 object in Lupus 3, AIU Jena, Invited Astro-Kolloquium
-September 2008: A new peculiar Class 0 object in Lupus 3, JENAM 2008, Vienna, Austria.
-September 2008: How Comets can help in studies of Planet Formation? – missions, JENAM 2008, Vienna, Austria.
-June 2008: Retrieval of Atmospheric Gases from Herschel Observations of the Outer Planets, AOGS 2008, Busan, Korea.
-May 2008: The Terminal Velocity of the Deep Impact Dust Ejecta, AIU Jena, Invited Astro-Kolloquium
-December 2007: Mesospheric Winds, Thermal Structure and CO Distribution on Venus from SMT observations, ESTEC, The Netherlands.
-October 2007: The terminal Velocity of the Deep Impact dust Ejecta, XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting, Isla Margarita, Venezuela.
-October 2007: Impactando a un Cometa: La Misión Impacto Profundo. La semana de la Astronomia Isla Margarita, Venezuela.
-October 2007: Mesospheric Winds, Thermal Structure, And C0 Distribution In Venus Around The Messenger Flyby, DPS Meeting Orlando, USA.
-August 2007: SMT Observations of the Venusian Temperature and Winds around the Messenger Flyby, AOGS 4th Meeting Bangkok, Thailand.
-July 2007: The terminal velocity of the Deep Impact dust ejecta, IGEP TU Braunschweig, Germany
-Feb 2007: Observacion y Modelaje de Embriones Estelares, CIDA, Merida, Venezuela
-Oct 2006: A Study of the Velocities of the Ejected Dust and of the Rotational Variability of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 around the Deep Impact Event, DPS 38, California, USA
-Aug 2006: Modeling of the Terminal Velocities of the Dust Ejected Material by the Impact, Deep Impact as a world observatoty event, Brussels, Belgium 
-Aug 2006: SK 1: A Possible Case of Trigerred Star Formation in Perseus, IAU XXVIth General Assembly, Prague, Chezk Republic
-Apr 2006: Analysing the Post Deep Impact Brightness distribution of the Cometary Dust of the Comet 9P/Tempel 1 with OSIRIS, EGU Vienna, Germany
-Aug 2005: Searching for Embryonaric Suns, MPS Kathlenburg-Lindau, Germany
-Jan 2005: Protostellar Baby Booms in Perseus and Orion, Uni Bochum, Germany
-Jan 2005: Protostellar Baby Booms in Perseus and Orion, MPIfR Bonn, Germany
-Dec 2004: Protostellar Baby Booms in Perseus and Orion, TLS Tautenburg, Germany
-Oct 2004: Globular Clusters and Class 0 sources in the Milky Way : the oldest and youngest stellar populations, University of Innsbruck, Austria
-July 2004: The unveiling life of stellar Embryos, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena, Germany
-September 2003: Deeply Embedded Sources in small groups: Continuum Imaging and Modelling of Class 0 sources, AG-Tagung, Freiburg, Germany 
-May 2003:  The Initial Conditions of the Star Formation,Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena, Germany
-February 2003: Determination of the age of Globular Clusters from Colour-Magnitude Diagrams, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaeat Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
-September 2002:  Looking at the earliest stages of the formation of stars: SCUBA observations of deeply embedded sources, AG-Tagung, Berlin, Germany 
-September 2002: The Saha estimator applied to the age of Globular Clusters, AG-Tagung, Berlin, Germany 
-March 2002: Determination of physical properties of Class-0 sources derived from submillimetre continuum images, MPE Garching, Germany
-January 2002: Physics of Class 0 sources,  CIDA, Mérida, Venezuela
-November 2001:  Physics of Class 0 sources, DFG-Schwerpunkt `Physik der Sternentstehung', Bad-Honnef, Germany 
-July 2000: The determination of the age of Globular Clusters from Colour-Magnitude-Diagrams,  Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
-July 1999: The age of Globular Clusters: a statistical approach, TLS Tautenburg, Germany
-July 1995: Caustics of plane curves on Hidrodynamic Waves Studies, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela

Awards and distinctions

- Recognition for valuable participation in the III  Exposition for Career. 

      The reward was for Physics Career. 

      Universidad Simón Bolívar. Caracas, Venezuela, 1995.

- Best academic average during the studies (Diplom). U.E.N. Juan de Escalona. 

      Caracas, Venezuela, 1989.

- Medal "Honor al Mérito" for studies. U.E.N. Juan de Escalona. 

      Caracas, Venezuela, 1989.

- Best Thesis Project (Diplom). U.E.N. Juan de Escalona. 

      Caracas, Venezuela, 1989.

- The highest excellence in the studies (Diplom). U.E.N. Juan de Escalona. 

      Caracas, Venezuela, 1987.

- Excellency in the studies (Diplom). E.M. Juan Manuel Cajigal. 

      Caracas. Venezuela, 1983.		

Scholarship obtained

-Research honorarium by DFG. Germany, December 2003-April 2004     

-RResearch grant by Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet. Germany, Sept. 2003- Nov. 2003.

-Scholarship DFG. Germany, August 2000 - August 2003.

-Short-term Research Scholarship from DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)

      for make a Short-term research in Max-Plank-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik. Germany, October 1998 - November 1998.

-Scholarship - credit from CONICIT (Council National of Scientific and Technological Researchs)for studies in the Magister. Venezuela, September 1997 - January 1999.

 


 

International Newspaper features

 

Una venezolana explora el universo con el telescopio más potente, Feb 2011. El Nacional, Venezuela.

Herschel hallo galaxias lejanas. El Universal, 17.7.2009. Venezuela 

Astronoma venezolana echara un vistazo al espacio inhospito. El Universal, 14.5.2009. Venezuela.

Fuera de este mundo. El sentinel, 13.10.2007, USA

La aventura de buscar estrellas. Todo en Domingo, El Universal.  
    

Memberschips in scientific councils and refereeing Duties  

 
2011-2012: Member of the  ESO OPC panel.

Member of the thesis advice committee of several students of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), since 2010. 

2008: JCMT reviewer: International Time Allocation Committee (ITAC) for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) participate in assessing observing proposals, in connection with the ITAG

Referee activities: Planetary and Space Science, Advances in Geosciences, 
                    ApJL. 2009.

Others

  
Member of the International Astronomical Union.
 
Member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft.

Member of the American Astronomical Society. Division for Planetary Sciences.

Member of the European Geosciences Union for the years 2006-2011.

Member of the Asia Oceania Geoscience Society.

Member of the German Network for Lunar Science and Exploration.

Member of the Scientific Committe for the works arbitrating to the XVIII

     National Meeting of Amateur Astronomy (ENA). Humboldt Planetarium.

     Caracas, Venezuela. October 1998.

  Second Meeting of the QUEST Collaboration (QUEST Project = Quasar Equatorial Survey). 

     Collaboration on International Project (Yale University, Indiana University, 

     Universidad de Los Andes, CIDA). Pedregosa Hotel. Mérida, Venezuela. June 1988.

  First Meeting of the QUEST Collaboration (QUEST Project = Quasar Equatorial Survey). 

     Collaboration on international Project (Yale University, Indiana University, 

     Universidad de Los Andes, CIDA). Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. June 1997.

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