Astronomy CV for Kieran Leschinski
The online version can be found here: https://astronomyk.github.io/cv/astro_cv.html
Publications
Only first author publication are listed here.
For a list of co-author publications, please see this link to ADS, or use the ADS search term: author:"^Leschinski, K."
Refereed papers
- Leschinski et al., 2020, Proc SPIE
- Leschinski and Alves, 2020, A&A
- Leschinski and Gendron, 2020, JOSS
- Leschinski et al., 2016, SPIE
Conference proceedings
- 2015 Oct - ADASS Sydney
- 2016 Oct - ADASS, Trieste
- 2018 Aug - IAU-GA, Vienna
- ELT-TRE-MCD-56306-0056: MICADO Filter Wing Transmission Levels
- Description: MICADO Phase B Technical note
- Authors: Leschinski
- Year: 2017
- ELT-ICD-MCD-56306-0050: SimCADO: the Data Simulator for MICADO
- Description: MICADO PDR Documentation
- Authors: Leschinski and Czoske
- Year: 2018
- ELT-MAN-MCD-56306-0058: SimCADO v2 User Manual
- Description: MICADO FDR Documentation
- Authors: Leschinski, Csoske, and Verdugo
- Year: 2020
- ELT-ICD-MCD-56306-0059: ScopeSim instrument packages for MICADO
- Description: MICADO FDR Documentation
- Authors: Leschinski, Csoske, and Verdugo
- Year: 2020
- ELT-TRE-MCD-56306-0060: ScopeSim - A modular astronomical instrument data simulation environment
- Description: MICADO FDR Documentation
- Authors: Leschinski
- Year: 2021
Thesis works
Astronomy software projects
Below is the list of software projects (python packages) for which I am the main (or sole) designer and developer:
- SimCADO
- The instrument data simulator for MICADO at the ELT
- ScopeSim
- A modular customisable multi-purpose astronomical instrument data simulator
- ScopeSim_templates
- A helper package from ScopeSim, containing function for generating on-sky source object in the correct format
- IRDB (Instrument reference database)
- The reference database containing all relevant information and files for ScopeSim to accurately model the full optical train for an observatory + telescope + instrument + detector system
- AnisoCADO
- Generates on/off-axis SCAO PSFs for MICADO at the ELT
- Based on a set of functions written by Eric Gendron
- Pyckles
- Quick pythonic access to the
Pickles (1998) stellar spectra. The package is also general enough to include other libraries
- SkyCalc_ipy
- A wrapper for the
SkyCalc_cli tool to allow use within an ipython framework
Talks and Presentations
Conferences presentations
2015
- Oct - Erice
- Oct - ADASS XXV, Sydney
2016
2017
- February - Vienna
- 2 day SimCADO Workshop - organised by me
- 15 participants from MICADO science team
- May - Linz
- A* PSF Meeting - Mathematicians meet Astronomers
- June - Prague
- August - Lanzhou, China
- Shedding Light on the Dark Universe with Extremely Large Telescopes - 25 min talk
- September - Beijing
- Stellar Populations and the Distance Scale - 20 min talk
2018
- April - Garching
- MICADO Science team Meeting - 30 min presentation
- April - Groningen
- Astrometry of resolved stellar population - 20 min presentation
- May - Vienna
- PhD Defence - 45 min talk + 45 min questions
- June - Garching
- ESO fellows symposium, invited talk - 30 min on SimCADO
- August - Vienna
2019
- March - Remote
- MAORY Science team workshop - 15 min presentation
- April - Garching
- ESO Software group meeting - meetings + hack-day
- June - Groningen
- Kaypteyn Institute - 30 mins Lunch talk
- September - Crete
2020
MICADO consortium meetings
2015
- Febrary - Garching MICADO Kick-Off
- May - Leiden CM01
- Oct - Vienna MC02
2016
- January - Garching
- MICADO Science team - Presentation of SimCADO v0.1 and Q and A with Science Team
- March - Garching CM03
- July - Dwingeloo CM04
- November - Garching CM05
2017
- February - Vienna
- April - Garching CM07
- October - Leiden
2018
- March - Garching CM09
- April - Groningen
- June - Groningen CM10
2019
- March - Garching CM12
- July - Innsbruck CM13
- November - Garching CM14
2020
- March - Online CM15
- June - Online CM16
- October - Online CM17
University talks
- 2015 March - Phd Seminar
- 2015 June - E-ELT Seminar
- 2016 Jan - FÖP
- 2017 Jan - Progress Report
- 2017 May - 2 hour E-ELT seminar
- 2018 May - PhD defence
Teaching
- 2014 May->June
- Master Instrumentation Tutorial (4x 3hr)
- 2016 April->June
- Bachelor Spectroscopy Tutorial (8x 5hr)
- 2017 April->June
- Bachelor Spectroscopy Tutorial (8x 5hr)
- 2019 March->July
- Bachelor (Physics) Introduction to Experimental Methods (14x 2.5hr)
- 2020 March->July
- Bachelor (Physics) Introduction to Experimental Methods (14x 2.5hr)
Posters
- 2015 April - Oxford
- The MICADO IDS - An Instrument Data Simulator for the E-ELT first-light instrument MICADO
- 2015 June - Garching - EIRO forum
- SimCADO - An Instrument Data Simulator for the E-ELT first-light instrument MICADO
- 2015 Oct - Sydney - ADASS
- Updated: SimCADO - An Instrument Data Simulator for the E-ELT first-light instrument MICADO
- 2016 April - Vienna - Lange Nacht der Forschung
- Das E-ELT: Europas neues Riesenteleskop
- MICADO: Die Nahinfrarotweitwinkelkamera des europäischen Riesenteleskops
- 2016 June - SPIE, Edinburgh
- SimCADO: A python package to simulate images for the E-ELT’s NIR camera: MICADO
- 2016 Oct - ADASS, Trieste
- SimCADO - a python package for simulating detector output for MICADO at the E-ELT
- 2020 - SPIE, Online
- ScopeSim: a flexible general purpose open-source astronomical instrument data simulation framework in Python
Conference Attendance
2015
- Apr - Oxford
- Wetton Workshop - Realising the Astronomy of the Future II - Simulating the Universe
- http://astro-conf.physics.ox.ac.uk/wetton15/programme.html
- June - Garching
- EIRO Forum summer school
- Best poster award!
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/368852/
- Oct - Erice
- STEEL summer school
- http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2015/EELT_EriceSchool2015.html
- Oct - Sydney
- ADASS 25
- http://www.caastro.org/event/2015-adass
- Nov - Sydney
- dot Astronomy 7
- http://dotastronomy.com/events/seven/
2016
- April - Garching
- ESO Instrument Simulator workshop
- http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2016/simu2016.html
- May - Linz
- A* All-day PSF reconstruction meeting
- June - Edinburgh
- SPIE - Astronomical Telescopes and Insturmentation
- http://spie.org/about-spie/press-room/spie-astronomical-telescopes–instrumentation-2016-news-and-photos
- October - Trieste
- ADASS 26
- http://www.adass2016.inaf.it/
2017
- June - Prag
- EWASS - European Week of Astronomy and Space Science - SS18
- http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2017/session.jsp?id=SS18
- July - Linz
- MICADO PSF-R and Spectroscopy Meeting
- August - Lanzhou, China
- Shedding Light on the Dark Universe with Extremely Large Telescopes - 25 min talk
- http://darkuniverse2017.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/65580
- https://conferences.pa.ucla.edu/dark-universe/index.html
- September - Beijing
- Stellar Populations and the Distance Scale - 20 min talk
- http://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/conference/stellar-populations-and-distance-scale-conference-honour-jeremy-mould
2018
- August - Vienna
- IAU General Assembly
- https://astronomy2018.univie.ac.at/
2019
- September - Crete
- Crete III: Through dark lanes to new stars
2020
- December - Online
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020 Digital Forum
- https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/astronomical-telescopes-and-instrumentation?SSO=1
Outreach activities
International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC), run by the Internation Workshop for Astronomy (IWA)
- 2012 - 2016: Group Leader
- 2014, 2015: President of IWA
- 2013, 2016: Vice President of IWA
2015
2015 March - Vienna
- Sonnenfinsternis, Urania
- Oct - Vienna
- Lange Nacht der Museen, Urania
2016
- Apr - Vienna
- Lange Nacht der Forschung, Sternwarte
- May - Vienna
- Nov - Vienna
- WAA - Wiener Astronomische Arbeitsgruppe General Versammlung
2017
- 2017 July - Alpbach
- Alpbach Summer school tutor
2018
- May - Vienna Planetarium
- Lecture on Die Zukunft der Astronomie - Riesen-Teleskope unter der Lupe
2019
- May - Vienna Planetarium
- Lecture on “The known unknowns in modern astronomy”
- June - Theresanium High School
- Physics class - “A morning with an Astrophysicst”
- July - Vienna University Observatory
- Ö1 Vollmondnacht public talks