Curriculum Vitae
Date of Birth:
24. August 1971, Vejle, Denmark (naturally the same as my
monozygotic twin-brother Hans Otto Uldall
Fynbo!). Our parents were Agnethe Fynbo
(b. 1928, school teacher) and Peter Uldall Fynbo
(farmer, b. 1912, d. 1991). Our elder brother is Niels Erik Fynbo.
We also have an elder half-sister (Anne Marie Fynbo).
August 1988:
Start at
Kolding Gymnasium.
June 1991:
"Studentereksamen" (see explanation at the danish
Ministry of education.)
Advanced levels in Physics and Mathematics. Average grade 11.0.
September 1991:
Start of Physics and Mathematics studies at the University of
Aarhus.
June 1994:
Bachelor degree in Mathematics.
June 1995:
Student at the 5th
Vatican Observatory Summer School on Observational Astrophysics
(topic: Cosmology. Teachers: Chris Impey, Carlos Frenk, Bill Stoeger, S. J.)
In audience with the holy father Pope Saint John Paul II.
He gave this address
at the occasion.
October 1995
One month visit at the Space Telescope Science Institute
(STScI) in Baltimore.
There I worked on a project under supervision of Dr. Palle Møller.
January 1996
Start graduate studies in the Astronomy
Group at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy
at Aarhus University. My supervisors were
Dr. Palle Møller (external, STScI and ESO)
and Dr. Bjarne Thomsen (local).
July 1996:
Student at the 5th ESO/OHP Summer School
on Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics.
September-December 1996:
Three months visit at STScI in Baltimore.
December 1997 - January 1998:
Student at the 15th Jerusalem
Winter School in Theoretical Physics.
The subject of the school was Galaxy Formation.
January 1998:
Passed the qualifying exam for the second part of the PhD study.
I thereby obtained a Masters Degree in Astronomy.
September 1998 - August 1999:
One year stay at European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching,
Germany,
under a studentship contract.
April 2000:
Defended my thesis: Pieces to the puzzle of Galaxy Formation.
The opponents for the defence where Dr. Max Pettini and Dr. Jesper Sommer-Larsen.
May 6, 2000:
Engaged with Charlotte Harkjær Møller!
June 2000 - August 2000
Guest at Copenhagen Observatory and
NORDITA working with
Dr. Jens Hjorth
and Dr. Steen Hannestad on Gamma-Ray Bursts and Dark Matter
respectively.
September 2000 - August 2002
Research Fellow at ESO
September 2002 - July 2004
Post-doc position at Copenhagen and Aarhus Universities funded by the
Carlsberg Foundation.
May 17 2003
Married to Charlotte Harkjær Møller! (Pictures taken by our friend Chris Mullis).
August 2004 -
Associate professor at Copenhagen University.
October 2011 - April 2019
Professor mso at Copenhagen University.
May 2019 -
Full professor at Copenhagen University.
Acknowledgements
In addition to the support from friends and family along the way and the
efforts of teachers and supervisors throughout my education I acknowledge
the following funding agencies who have supported me financially
during my studies and research :
1990:
Sparekassen Koldings Fonds legat til unge studerende (1000 DKr.)
1993:
An interest-free loan (4000D Kr.) from Fredericia Kommunes studiefund.
1993-1995:
Vennerne Hans Hansen og hustru og Bjarne Preetzmann-Aggerholm og
hustrus legat til fordel for flittige og begavede studenter fra Kolding
Gymnasium (2000 DKr. per month for three years).
1996-2000:
Aarhus University and ESA follow-up research funded my PhD studies.
2000:
NORDITA and SNF (Danish Natural Science Research Council) funded my
three month visit at
NORDITA/Copenhagen Observatory.
2002-2020:
The Carlsberg Foundation funded my post-doc position at Copenhagen
and Aarhus University under the grant 'Danish use of the VLT'.
The Carlsberg foundation also funds our ongoing instrumentation project
"The NOT Transient Explorer". We are building a new spectrograph and imager
for the Nordic Optical Telescope.
2005-2015:
The Danish National Research Foundation funded the Dark Cosmomolgy Centre.
Together with Jens Hjorth, Anja Andersen, Jesper Sollerman, Steen Hannestad and
Kristian Pedersen I was in the team that wrote the original proposal.
The Dark experience was very interesting and we did very interesting
reserach. Dark still lives on as one of the research sections at the
Niels Bohr Institute, now with funding from other sources.
2011-2016:
The European Research Foundation funded me through a starting grant (in the
consolidator catagory). The project was called "EGGs" for "Emission-line Galaxies
and Gamma-ray Bursts".
2016-2022:
The Carlsberg Foundation as given us a grant to support the construction of a new powerful spectrograph and imager for the Nordic Optical Telescope: The NOT Transient Explorer.
Above all I thank the Creator for such a marvellous and yet
intelligible Creation.
Last updated : Dec. 2020