Sylvia Ploeckinger
Astrophysicist (postdoctoral research assistant) at Leiden University (The Netherlands)
A Little About Me
I am a scientist working on expanding our understanding of the Universe we live in. The methods I am using reach from calculations involving mostly pen and (lots of) paper to developing complex large-scale cosmological simulations that run on thousands of processors for months within an international collaboration of scientists.
I received my PhD from the Department of Astrophysics in Vienna, Austria and I have since been a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands as well as at the Institute for Computational Cosmology in Durham (UK).
In September 2019 I have joined the Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics in Leiden on a personal grant from NWO.