Jan-Torge Schindler, PhD

Postdoctoral researcher at Leiden Observatory

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Dr. Jan-Torge Schindler

Leiden Observatory
Niels Bohrweg 2
2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands

Email: schindler at strw.leidenuniv.nl

A full version of my CV and publication list is available below:

Education and Employment

starting June 2023 - Emmy Noether research group leader
Hamburg Observatory , Hamburg University, Germany

2021- June 2023 - Postdoctoral researcher
in the group of Prof. Joseph Hennawi
Leiden Observatory, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands

2018-2021 - Postdoctoral researcher
in the groups of Dr. Fabian Walter and Dr. Eduardo Banados
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

2012-2013/2014-2018 - Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, AZ, USA
Supervisor: Xiaohui Fan, Ph.D. (Regents' Professor)
Thesis: The Formation and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes: The Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey

2011-2012/2013-2014 - M.Sc. in Physics
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang J. Duschl / Xiaohui Fan, Ph.D. (Regents' Professor)
Thesis: Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their host galaxies

2008-2011 - B.Sc. in Physics
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang J. Duschl
Thesis: Zeitliche Entwicklung selbstgravitierender Akkretionsscheiben: Selbstähnliche Lösungen?
Thesis (translation): Temporal evolution of self-gravitating accretion discs: self-similar solutions?