prof. dr. E. (Else) Starkenburg

I completed my Ph.D. titled "Galactic Archaeology in and around the Milky Way" at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen.

From 2012 until 2014, I held an independent postdoctoral position at the University of Victoria in Canada as a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Global Scholar and Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) National Fellow.

In 2014, I moved to the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, Germany as Karl Schwarzschild Fellow, where I started my own independent research group "The Early Milky Way” with an Emmy Noether Prize Fellowship. As part of this fellowship I had the pleasure to be the promotor and supervisor for PhD students Kris Youakim (PhD thesis) and Anke Arentsen (PhD thesis see also Anke's webpage). Moreover, I was a co-supervisor for the PhD thesis of Federico Sestito (PhD thesis), who graduaded at Strasbourg Observatory and spent almost a year of his PhD visiting my group in Potsdam.

Since September 2020, I am back at the Kapteyn Institute as a tenure-track staff member. I was able to establish my own research group, thanks to NWO-VIDI and ERC-Consolidator research grants. PhD-students Akshara Viswanathan (PhD-thesis) and Martin Montelius (PhD-thesis) already graduated succesfully and added to our understanding of the metal-poor Galaxy. Together with many international collaborators, my group continues to work towards a better and more comprehensive view of the very early history of the Milky Way galaxy. We also closely collaborate with other members of the institute, such as in the "Galaxia" research group.