Curriculum Vitae

Gaitee A.J. Hussain

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Address:
ESO
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
Garching bei Muenchen
Germany D-85748

E-mail: ghussain@nospam.cfa.harvard.edu (remove the nospam to email me)

Personal:
Nationality: British

Education:
1999 Ph.D.(Astronomy & Astrophysics), University of St Andrews, UK
1995 B.Sc.(Physics & Astronomy), University College London, UK

Thesis: "Magnetic activity in late-type stars"
Advisor: A. Collier Cameron

Employment
2003-05: European Space Agency Research Fellow
2000-03: Harvard Smithsonian CfA Postdoctoral Research Fellow
1999-00: Postdoctoral research assistant, St Andrews, Scotland
1996-98: Demonstrating and marking undergraduate astronomy labs., St Andrews
Jun 94: Modifying and rewriting undergraduate lab. scripts, St Andrews
1993-94: Helping to implement an instruction scheme for first year undergraduates
Observing - ground-based
2002 Aug & Nov: McDonald 2.7-m (12 nights in total)
2001 Dec & 2002 Jan: McDonald 2.1-m CE (6 nights in total)
2001 Aug: Keck 10-m HIRES (2 half-nights)
1996 Dec & 1998 Jan: 3.9-m AAT/UCLES setup (2 weeks)
1995 Oct-Dec: James Gregory Telescope in St Andrews - photometry
Observing - satellites
2002 Chandra HETG & LETG - AB Dor (archive data & PI)
2001 HST STIS - SV Cam (co-I)
2000 EUVE - AB Dor (archive data analysis)
Conferences - talks
2005 AAAS, Washington DC, USA - invited review
2003 IAU Joint Discussion 09, Australia - invited review
2002 1st Potsdam Thinkshop on sunspots & starspots, Germany - invited review
2001 Cool Stars 12, Boulder, USA
2001 Stellar Coronae, Noordwijk, Netherlands
2000 AAS, Atlanta, USA
Other invited talks and seminars
2003 State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
2002 Univs. of Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton & St Andrews, UK
2002 Tautenburg Observatory (TLS), Tautenburg, Germany
2001 Imperial College, UK
2001 Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Collaborators
J. Aufdenberg (NOAO, USA): Starspot properties: measuring accurate starspot temperatures and filling factors
A. van Ballegooijen (CfA, USA): Modeling the thermal properties of active cool stars
J.R. Barnes (St Andrews, UK): Starspot lifetimes
N.S. Brickhouse (CfA, USA): Analysis of X-ray spectroscopy of cool stars
A. Collier Cameron (St Andrews, UK): Doppler imaging, Zeeman Doppler imaging, Differential rotation
J.-F. Donati (Obs. Midi-Pyrenees, France): Mapping prominences, Doppler imaging (DI) & Zeeman DI on AB Dor
A. Dupree (CfA, USA): X-ray properties of cool stars
F. Favata (ESA, Netherlands): Abundance analyses of cool stars
A. Hatzes (Tautenburg Observatory, Germany): Doppler imaging of V471 Tau
M. Jardine (St Andrews, UK): Coronal properties of ultra rapidly rotating stars
C. Allende Prieto (U Texas, USA): High resolution spectroscopy using the McDonald 2.7-m telescope
D. O'Neal (Allegheny, USA): Starspot filling factor measurements, Doppler imaging and TiO band analysis
S. Saar (CfA, USA): Starspot filling factors; Testing the reliability of Zeeman DI techniques
M.D. Still (NASA GSFC, USA): Surface and coronal properties of secondaries in pre-CV binaries
Y.C. Unruh (Imperial, UK): Doppler imaging using the NLTE Li I 6708 doublet
F. Walter (Stony Brook, USA): Doppler imaging, measuring periods of open cluster stars

Memberships in Professional Societies: Royal Astronomical Society; American Astronomical Society

Outreach programmes: Secretary to the Astronomy Club of ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands); mentoring middle-school girls (Boston, MA); press secretary in 1998 NAM (St Andrews, UK); planetarium trips to primary schools (St Andrews, UK); helping to implement an instruction scheme for first year undergraduates at UCL (London, UK).

Referees:
Dr. N. Brickhouse
Harvard Smithsonian CfA
60 Garden St
Cambridge MA 02138 USA.
Prof. A. Collier Cameron
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of St Andrews
Scotland KY16 9SS, UK.
Dr. J.-F. Donati
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique
Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees
F-31400 Toulouse, France.
Dr. A.K. Dupree
Harvard Smithsonian CfA
60 Garden St
Cambridge MA 02138 USA.
Dr. F. Favata
European Space Agency, ESTEC
Keplerlaan 1, Mailcode SCI-SA
Noordwijk, 2200AG, The Netherlands
Dr. M.M. Jardine
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of St Andrews
Scotland KY16 9SS, UK.
Dr. S. Saar
Harvard Smithsonian CfA
60 Garden St
Cambridge MA 02138 USA.

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