My scientific interests: Star Formation, Astrochemistry, Hot cores/corinos, (proto)stellar outflows, sub-mm astronomical observations (especially with ALMA), chemical kinetic modeling, solar system chemistry, prebiotic molecule formation.
I am also an avid science communicator, participating regularly in large public outreach projects such as Skype a Scientist and Zpannend Zernike, as well as writing my own astronomy lessons for young children in English and Dutch.

Astroparticle Physics, Dark Matter, Machine Learning, Galaxy Clusters in X-rays

Astronomical instrumentation in far infared/submm waves

Theoretical Physics

Research Data Management
Data Analytics

Astronomy outreach

I am a PhD student at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute on the topic of astrobiology. My main focus is on the study of habitability on large spatial and temporal (galactic, cosmological) scales and connections of planetary habitability to these larger scales.

Observational Extragalactic Astronomy. Multiwavelength studies of high-redshift galaxies.

I am a theoretical astrophysicist and work on the topics of Galaxy formation, Epoch of Reionization, 21cm cosmology and Dark Matter.

I have recently written an extremely comprehensive review on "Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects". The final version is now online and can be freely downloaded using this link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.002

Phenomenology of particle physics: simulation and reconstruction of observables from extensive air showers.

Theoretical and observational aspects of inflationary cosmology

Galaxy formation and evolution
Gas dynamics and flows to and from galaxies
Galactic dynamics and Dark matter

Nonlinear dynamics, time series analysis, variable star physics

Nuclear Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics are within the expertise of the fields mentioned.

Milky Way formation and evolution
Galactic Dynamics
Galactic Archaeology
Dark Matter

Radio Astronomy, Structure and Evolution of Galaxies, Interstellar Medium, Neutral Hydrogen in Galaxies 

Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Star and Planet Formation & Astrochemistry

Galactic Dynamics and Archaeology

21-cm cosmology, gravitational lensing, dark matter, galaxy structure, evolution & formation, stellar dynamics, interferometry

Exoplanets, Planetary Science, Planet Formation

Radio astronomy; Gravitational lensing; AGN and star formation

High-energy Astrophysics 

For a detailed overview of my research experience, please visit my personal website: https://www.astro.rug.nl/~mierlo/

Radioastronomy, Active galactic nuclei (AGN), study of the interstellar medium in active galaxies

High redshift observational extragalactic astrophysics

World leader in Astronomy and STEM Education and Evaluation.

Nearby Galaxies: structure, stellar populations, kinematics; Galaxy Formation and Evolution; Galaxy Evolution in Clusters

Extragalactic Astronomy, High-redshift Universe, Galaxy evolution, Galaxy formation

Observational Methods in Astronomy
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Applications of Machine Learning in Astronomy

Astro particle physics, cosmic rays;
Lightning Physics with LOFAR;
Theoretical particle physics

Galaxies, Galaxy Evolution, Large Astronomical Surveys, Astronomical Data processing, Astronomy in general.
Medical Visualization, DICOM, Anonimysation of patient data, DVH calculations.
Roman and Greek History, Ancient History.

- Physics of the interstellar medium and the formation of stars
- Molecular spectroscopy and radiative transfer
- Interstellar chemistry
- Exoplanets and astrobiology

Resolved stellar populations in galaxies; chemical evolution of galaxies; stellar abundances; optical/IR instrumentation

Stellar populations, chemical evolution of galaxies, astronomical instrumentation

Astronomical information technology

I have experience in the detection of high-energy messengers, including neutrinos, CRs and gamma-rays. I have five years of experience in neutrino astronomy, for her PhD and one post-doctoral fellowship on the ANTARES and KM3NeT underwater neutrino telescopes. During my PhD I set the first upper limit on the flux of neutrinos from the supergalactic plane, and later worked on the search for neutrinos from the Fermi-Bubbles. My technical contributions in neutrino astronomy include the development of an online reconstruction algorithm for a real-time optical follow-up of neutrino events and the characterisation of optical properties of deep-sea sites for the installation of future neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean. I have ten years of experience in the detection of Galactic Cosmic rays, as a member of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02). My main contributions to the AMS-02 collaboration are related to the calibration of the electromagnetic calorimeter, and to the analysis of the electron and positron fluxes. I am currently working on the isotopic composition of Galactic CRs. I am a member of the CTA Collaboration since 2015, and I have been working on DM searches from the dSph galaxies. I also have experience in the phenomenology of CR sources and propagation, being the author of several papers on this topic. I am a Rosalind Franklin fellow and tenure-track assistant professor at RUG since 2018.

Galaxy structure, dynamics and evolution
Atomic Hydrogen in and around galaxies
Visible and Dark Matter distributions in galaxies
Radio astronomy, Integral Field Spectroscopy

Galaxy evolution

cosmology, cosmic structure formation, large scale structure of the Universe, computational geometry & topology, history of astronomy

X-ray and gamma-ray emission from AGN. Statistics. Information systems for large data volumes.