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Sylvia Ekström García Nombela

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Sylvia


Curriculum Vitae

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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

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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 Motet
See the coming concerts with Volubilis

 
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Last update: 2009/01/24