CURRICULUM VITAE


Anna Sajina

 

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BACKGROUND:

Born: February 22, 1977, Sofia, Bulgaria

Emigrated to Canada October 25, 1992

Languages: English, Bulgarian, Russian, French

Citizenship: Bulgaria, Canada

Married: August 14, 2008

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EDUCATION:

Doctorate: of Philosophy, Astronomy, May 2006, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Thesis: The Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions of Star-forming Galaxies

Masters of Science, Astronomy, November 2002 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Thesis: A multiwavelength study of 170 micron selected sources}

Bachelor of Science, Honours Physics & Astronomy, May 2000,University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2008 (November) -	Planck postdoc (with Bruce Partridge)	Department of Physics and Astronomy Haverford College
2007 (November)- 2008(October)	Postdoc (with Bruce Partridge)	Department of Physics and Astronomy Haverford College
2005-2007	Postdoc (with Lin Yan)	Spitzer Science Center Caltech
2003(September)-2004(March)	Visiting Graduate Student (with Mark Lacy)	Spitzer Science Center Caltech
2000(September)-2005(September)	Graduate research assistant (with Douglas Scott)	Department of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia
Summer 1999	Undergraduate Research Assistant (with Douglas Scott)	Department of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Co-teaching with Stephen Boughn Astronomy 205a (stellar structure and the Milky Way galaxy) at Haverford College in Fall 2008.

Teaching Assistant at the University of British Columbia from 2000-2005.

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AWARDS:

2008 [PI] Spitzer IRS search for shocked gas in a rare system of radio jet-galaxy interaction (8.2hrs) ($29,000)

2007 [PI] Spitzer IRS study of water ice and warm CO absorption in z~2 ULIRGs. (40.6hrs) ($145,445, my share)

2007 [Co-I] Joint HST (150 orbits)/Spitzer (65hrs) study of the nature of z~1-2 ULIRGs.

2006 [Co-I] Spitzer Cycle 3 IRS study of the sources dominating the IR background (307 hours)

2004 University Graduate Fellowship, September 2004--September 2005, ($16,000CDN)

2003 Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship, September 2003--March 2004 ($15,000)

2000 Fred Muir Memorial Scholarship ($500)

1999 NSERC undergraduate research award, summer 1999 (~$5,000CDN)

1996 Outstanding Student Initiative Scholarship, September 1996--May 1997 ($2,500CDN)

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OBSERVING EXPERIENCE:

In chronological order:

UBC Observatory 42cm, optical photometry (British Columbia, Canada)

DAO 1.8m, optical photometry (British Columbia, Canada)

JCMT 15m, sub-millimetre photometry (Hawaii) - multiple programs

Palomar Hale Observatory 5m, optical spectroscopy (California)

Spitzer Space Telescope 84cm, infrared spectroscopy (Space) -- multiple programs

VLA (36km), radio interferometry (Socorro, NM)

MERLIN (217km), radio interferometry (UK)

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CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS:

• Lorentz Center Leiden, Netherlands, November, 2008 (invited talk)
• The starburst-AGN connection international conference, Shanghai, China, October 2008, (talk)
• Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) meeting, Victoria, BC, May 2008, (poster)
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics galaxies lunch talk, Cambridge, MA, November 2007 (talk)
• From IRAS to Herschel/Planck: cosmology with infrared and sub-mm surveys, London, July 2007
• International Astronomical Society Meeting, Prague, August 2006 (poster)
• Tracing star-formation and black hole growth in the centers of ULIRGs, Ithaca June 2006 (poster)
• IR diagnostics of galaxy evolution, Pasadena, November 2005 (talk)
• Canadian Astronomical Society Meeting, Montreal, PQ, June 2005 (talk)
• Royal Astronomical Society of Canada meeting, June 2005 (invited talk)
• IfA Colloquium, Honolulu, March 2005, (invited talk)
• American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting, San Diego, January 2005 (poster)
• Starbursts:From 30Dor to Lyman Break Galaxies, Cambridge, UK, September 2004 (poster)
• Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) meeting, Winnipeg, June 2004 (talk)
• Wide-field imaging from space, Berkeley, May 2004 (poster)
• Galaxy Formation and Evolution Winter School, Jerusalem, January 2004, (poster)
• Astrophysics of Dust, Estes Park, May 2003 (poster)
• American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting, Seattle, January 2003 (talk)
• Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) meeting, Penticton, BC, June 2002 (poster)

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OUTREACH:

I wrote a Quick Study article: "On Ships, Trains and the Equation of Time" to appear in Physics Today, November 2008.

I have assisted in the writing of a Spitzer Web Feature on my discovery of radio jets in distant infrared-bright galaxies.

I gave a public lecture on infrared astronomy to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (amateur astronomy) meeting.

I have participated in the UBC Observatory's Public Observing program.

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

I have refereed papers for the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), and for the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ).

I have refereed several observing proposals for the JCMT.

I have been a member of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) since 2000.