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Sylvia Ekström García Nombela
Curriculum Vitae
(available in pdf version)| Name: | Ekström García Nombela Sylvia |
| Birth: | 1st June 1966 |
| Place: | Stockholm (Sweden) |
| Nationality: | Swiss |
| Marital status: | married |
| Education | |
|---|---|
| September 2008 | PhD in astrophysics (Geneva Observatory) |
| January 2006 | MAS in astrophysics at the Geneva Observatory |
| March 2004 | Physics degree (Geneva University) |
| September 1988 | Midwife diploma (Ecole Le Bon Secours, Geneva) |
| June 1985 | Greek-latin high school graduation (collège Calvin, Geneva) |
| Experience | |
| from Sept. 2008 on | Postdoc in the research group on massive stars at the Geneva Observatory |
| 2004-2008 | PhD thesis under the supervision of G. Meynet and A. Maeder |
| 2003-2004 | Master's thesis on non solid rotating primordial stars, under the supervision of G. Meynet and A. Maeder |
| 1988-1999 | Midwife position in the hôpital de Morges (childbirth classes, prenatal care, labor and delivery unit, postnatal care) |
You can get a more musical biography (sorry, only in french)
Research
First stars:
There is a wide interest in studying the first stars' evolution because of their key position in topics such as the early universe's reionization and chemical enrichment, or the chemical composition of very metal poor stars (see Christlieb's star HE0107-5240).
My work is actually to compute evolutionary tracks of primordial stars to study the effects of fast non-solid rotation on those objects.
Publications
Papers:
- list in ADS
Posters:
- Symposium IAU 228 (May 2005, Paris)
"From Lithium to Uranium: elemental tracers of early galactic evolution"- Contribution "Fast rotating first stars"
- Nuclei in the Cosmos IX (June 2006, CERN Geneva)
- Contribution "CNO production in the first generation stars"
(on-line proceedings on the PoS website)
- Contribution "CNO production in the first generation stars"
Musical activities
Music is my life's other passion and I've been singing since I was 8 years old. I'm singing actually in 2 different groups: in the Motet of Geneva, a 60 singers' mixt choir, I have the pleasure to interpret pages of the 19th-20th century music; with Volubilis, a 12 female singers' consort, I discover pages of a more intimate kind.
See the coming concerts with le MotetSee the coming concerts with Volubilis
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Last update: 2009/01/24