Jelle Kaastra

Prof. Dr. Jelle S. Kaastra SRON Sorbonnelaan 2 3584 CA Utrecht Netherlands Phone (31)-88-7775870 Fax (31)-88-7775601 J.Kaastra at sron.nl

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Current position

Senior Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Part-time honorary Professor (High Energy Astrophysics) at Leiden University
Zero appointment as "Universitair hoofddocent" at the Physics & Astronomy Department, Utrecht University

Other professional activities:

Principal Investigator of the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) of XMM-Newton
Principal Investigator of the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS) of Chandra
Member ASTRO-H Science Advisory Committee

Research interests

• Active Galactic Nuclei
• Clusters of galaxies
• Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
• Interstellar medium
• & any other interesting source ....

Modeling of (high-resolution) X-ray spectra

• Mekal model in XSPEC
• Our current spectral modeling and fitting code: SPEX

Future X-ray instruments

• Athena

Recent large projects

• Clusters of galaxies: beyond the thermal view
• Observing campaign on Mrk 509
• Observing campaign on NGC 5548

Publications

Inaugural lecture 3 November 2014

Teaching

Leiden University: Master's course High Energy Astrophysics
Autumn 2022 Course material is posted here