Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo
  • Jagtvej 155A

    2200 København N

  • Source: Scopus
1998 …2024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Primary fields of research

Gamma-ray bursts, sources of gravitational waves, quasars, galaxies, origin of chemical elements, the early Universe.

Current research

Spectroscopy of gamma-ray bursts and quasars, sources of gravitational waves, the most distant galaxies and gamma-ray bursts. Galaxy counterparts of Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers.

Teaching

I have taught courses on Galaxies, Galaxy formation, Cosmology, Advanced cosmology, Galactic dynamics, Fundamentals of Astronomy and Observational Astrophysics.

Furthermore, I have taught at a number of PhD summerschools.

I have superviced about 10 PhD students and a larger number of master students on topics within the fieds of galakxies, gamma-ray bursts and quasars. Examples:

PhD

Master

  • Mette Madsen and Charlie Meinertz. High EW Galaxies in UltraVISTA. Niels Bohr Institute 2021.
  • Andre Hartwigsen. High-z Galaxies in the UltraVISTA. Niels Bohr Institute 2021.
  • Lenka Otap. Teaching astrophysics. Niels Bohr Institute 2021. 
  • Suk Joo Ko. GTC Spectroscopy of red quasars. Niels Bohr Institute 2020.
  • Emil Tolker-Nielsen Cortes. Astrometric Selection of Quasar candidates from Gaia DR2. Niels Bohr Institute 2019.
  • Christina Konstantopoulou. Astrometric selection and spectroscopy of candidate red quasars. Niels Bohr Institute 2019.
  • Mariam El-Souri. A spectroscopic study of the new gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1442+4055. Niels Bohr Institute 2018.
  • Mikael Hansen. Tomography of a gamma-ray burst host galaxy at z=2.71. Niels Bohr Institute 2017.
  • Sadik Acili. A galaxy illuminated by a GRB at z=2.33. Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute 2016.
  • Kasper Elm Heintz. Exploring New Methods of Selecting Quasars. Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute 2016.
  • Mikkel Theiss Kristensen. Rare Emission-line Galaxies in the COSMOS Field. Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute 2015.
  • Johannes Møller Astrup. Where is the galaxy counterpart of DLA 2225+0527? Niels Bohr Institute 2015.
  • Thøger Emil Juul Thorsen. Probing early galaxy formation with Damped Lyman α-Absorbers. Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute 2011.
  • Ása Skúladóttir. The Faint Afterglow Spectra of GRB 090809 and GRB 100425A. Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute 2010.
  • Niels-Erik Kofod. Measuring Lyman Continuum Emission from High Redshift Galaxies. Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute 2010.
  • Christina Henriksen. Absorption Selected Galaxies Along the Line of Sight to GRBs. Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute 2007.

CV

Born 1971 in Vejle, Denmark

Maried to Charlotte Harkjær Fynbo 2003. Two children: Clara Kirstine Fynbo (2006) and Rasmus Peter Fynbo (2009).

Educated at Århus University. Cand. scient in physics 1998, PhD in natural science 2000.

Researchfellow at the European Southern Observatory 2000-2002.

Post.doc. 2002-2004 funded by the Carlsbergfoundation (based in Århus, but employed at the University of Copenhagen).

Associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute from 2004. 2005 co-founder of the DARK Cosmology Centre.
Professor mso from 2011 in connection with an ERC starting grant (consolidator) project.

Full professor from May 2019.
 
From 2018 affiliated to the research center DAWN working on the first galaxies and quasars.

Knowledge of languages

Danish, English and German

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Galaxies
  • Gamma-ray bursts
  • Dark ages

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