SARAH KENDREW
SARAH KENDREW
SARAH KENDREW
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<strong>SARAH</strong> <strong>KENDREW</strong><br />
Max Planck Institut für Astronomie<br />
Königstuhl 17<br />
69117 Heidelberg<br />
Germany<br />
Phone: +49-‐6221 528260<br />
Email: kendrew@mpia.de<br />
Web: http://www.mpia.de/~kendrew<br />
Science interests<br />
• High mass star formation<br />
• Star formation in the CMZ<br />
• Instrument modelling<br />
• Outreach, web-‐based astronomy<br />
Employment<br />
Expertise<br />
• Instrumental performance modelling (IR)<br />
• The IR atmosphere, including AO<br />
• Systems Engineering/Test & calibration<br />
• Data exploration & statistics<br />
Nov 2010-‐ Postdoctoral Researcher/Systems Engineer, Max Planck Institut für Astronomie,<br />
Heidelberg, Germany<br />
• Systems Engineer on GRAVITY for VLTI<br />
• Test & science team member, MIRI for JWST<br />
• Research in high mass star formation; science team of the Milky Way Project<br />
• Organiser of the dotAstronomy conference series<br />
2007-‐2010 Postdoctoral Researcher in Instrumentation for Astronomy, Leiden Observatory,<br />
Netherlands<br />
• Projects: METIS for E-‐ELT, MIRI for JWST, ASSIST<br />
Sep – Nov 2006 Science Journalism Intern, ESO, Germany<br />
Press office assistant at ESO.<br />
April -‐ Aug 2006 Postdoctoral Research Assistant/Mechanical Engineer, University College<br />
London, UK<br />
Instrumentation work for the JWST/NIRSpec calibration source.<br />
Education<br />
2002-‐2006 PhD in Physics: Lightweight deformable mirrors for ground-‐ and space-‐based imaging<br />
systems<br />
University College London, UK (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Doel)<br />
1997-‐2001 Msci. Astronomy (1 st class honours)<br />
Diploma in Science Communication (distinction)<br />
University College London, UK.
1991-‐1997 Secondary school diploma with distinction.<br />
Regina Caelilyceum, Dilbeek, Belgium (Greek/Latin specialisation)<br />
Teaching<br />
2008 -‐ Supervision of PhD student Juan Rafael Martinez Galarza, Leiden<br />
2005-‐2006 GCSE/A-‐level tutor in maths and Physics, London Home Tutors, London<br />
2002-‐2005 TA in practical astronomy classes and observing sessions at the University of London<br />
Observatory, London<br />
Skills & Experience<br />
• Programming : IDL, Python, MatLab, C/C++, Eclipse/Cecil (JWST).<br />
• Instrument data analysis: Mainly experience with spectroscopic data, both slit and IFU designs.<br />
Spitzer/IRS (using SMART), CRIRES, JWST-‐MIRI test data using custom software, AIPS for VLA<br />
data analysis. Exploration and statistics of large numerical datasets.<br />
• CAD/Design and FEA: Pro-‐Engineer and I-‐DEAS. Finite element analysis (structural, quasi-‐static,<br />
thermal) using I-‐DEAS, Pro-‐Mechanica. Completed Pro-‐E and Pro-‐M training courses.<br />
• Web design, DTP, CMS: LaTeX, html/css, Wordpress<br />
• Project management, business: Completed week-‐long Faraday Partnership workshop on<br />
entrepreneurship, intellectual property law, leadership & management, systems engineering<br />
(London, 2005). Extensive experience in working in small & large consortia of mixed<br />
academic/industrial and international composition, formal documentation procedures.<br />
Professional membership, Committees<br />
• From 2012: Member of the MPIA Strategic Time Allocation Committee<br />
• Member of SPIE, from 2006-‐2009 Member of the SPIE Membership Committee and from 2006-‐<br />
2008 Co-‐chair of the Early Careers Professionals Advisory Committee<br />
• Member of the Institute of Physics<br />
Science communication and writing<br />
2009-‐2011 Organiser of the dotAstronomy conference series (Leiden 2009, Oxford 2010,<br />
Heidelberg 2012)<br />
2006 Science journalism intern, ESO, Germany<br />
2004 Interviewee on BBC’s The Sky at Night<br />
2003 Runner-‐up, BASF/Daily Telegraph science writing competition<br />
2003 Researcher, BBC, London
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (Peer-‐reviewed/SPIE)<br />
• R. Simpson, M. Povich, S. Kendrew et al, ‘The Milky Way Project: A Bubblier Galactic Disk’,<br />
MNRAS in press (2012)<br />
• R. Lenzen et al, ‘METIS: System engineering and optical design of the mid-‐infrared E-‐ELT<br />
instrument’, Proc. SPIE vol. 7735, pp. 77357O-77357O-12 (2010)<br />
• S. Uttenthaler, K. Pontoppidan, A. Seifahrt, S. Kendrew et al, ‘Correcting METIS spectra for<br />
telluric absorption to maximize spectra fidelity’, Proc. SPIE vol. 7735, pp. 77357A-77357A-11<br />
(2010)<br />
• S. Kendrew et al, ‘Mid-‐infrared astronomy with the E-‐ELT: Performance of METIS’, Proc. SPIE vol.<br />
7735, pp. 77355F-77355F-13 (2010)<br />
• Brandl et al, ‘Instrument concept and science case for the mid-‐IR E-‐ELT imager and spectrograph<br />
METIS’, Proc. SPIE vol. 7735, pp. 77352G-77352G-16 (2010)<br />
• P. Guillard et al, ‘Optical performance of the JWST/MIRI flight model: characterization of the<br />
point spread function at high resolution’, Proc. SPIE vol. 7731<br />
• S. Ronayette, C. Cavarroc, S. Kendrew et al, ‘Performance verification of the MIRI imager flight<br />
model at CEA’, Proc. SPIE vol. 7731, pp. 77313N-77313N-15 (2010)<br />
• J.R. Martinez-‐Galarza et al, ‘Wavelength calibration of the JWST-‐MIRI medium resolution<br />
spectrometer’, Proc. SPIE vol. 7731, pp. 77313Q-77313Q-12 (2010)<br />
• A. Skemer, P. Hinz, W. Hoffmann, L. Close, S. Kendrew, R. Mathar, R. Stuik, T. Greene, C.<br />
Woordward, M. Kelley, 'A direct measurement of atmospheric dispersion in N-‐band spectra:<br />
Implications for mid-‐IR systems on ELTs', PASP vol. 121 (882), pp. 897-‐904 (2009)<br />
• S. Kendrew, L. Jolissaint, R. J. Mathar, S. Hippler, B. Brandl, 'Atmospheric refractivity effects on<br />
mid-‐infrared ELT adaptive optics'. In Proc. SPIE vol. 7015, Adaptive Optics Systems, eds. N. Hubin,<br />
C. Max, P. Wizinowich, 70155T (2008).<br />
• B. Brandl et al., 'METIS: The Mid-‐infrared E-‐ELT Imager and Spectrograph'. In Proc. SPIE vol.<br />
7014, Ground-‐based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, eds. I. MacLean, M. Casali,<br />
70141N (2008).<br />
• S.Kendrew, B. Brandl, R. Lenzen, L. Venema, H.U. Kaefl, G. Finger, A. Glasse, R. Stuik. Mid-‐<br />
Infrared Instrumentation for the European Extremely Large Telescope. In Proc. SPIE vol. 6692,<br />
Cryogenic Optical Systems and Instruments XII, eds. J.B. Heaney and L.G. Burriesci (2007).<br />
• S. Kendrew, A.P. Doel, D. Brooks, A.M. King, C. Dorn, C. Yates, R.M. Dwan, G. Dando, I.<br />
Richardson, G. Evans. A prototype carbon fibre composite deformable mirror. Opt. Eng. (2007)<br />
• S. Kendrew, A.P. Doel, D. Brooks, A.M. King, C. Dorn, C. Yates, R.M. Dwan, G. Dando, I.<br />
Richardson, G. Evans. Carbon fibre composite deformable mirrors: Developments at University<br />
College London. Proc. SPIE vol. 6272, 62722Q (2006)<br />
• S. Kendrew, A.P. Doel, D. Brooks, C. Dorn, C. Yates, R.M. Dwan, I. Richardson, G. Evans.<br />
Development of a carbon fibre composite deformable mirror: Design and testing. Opt. Eng. 45(3)<br />
(2006)<br />
• S. Kendrew, A.P. Doel. Finite element analysis of carbon fibre composite adaptive mirrors. Proc.<br />
SPIE vol. 5490, pp. 1591-‐1599 (2004)<br />
• A.P. Doel, S. Kendrew, D. Brooks, C. Dorn, C. Yates, R.M. Dwan, I. Richardson, G. Evans.<br />
Development of an active carbon fibre composite mirror. Proc. SPIE vol. 5490, pp. 1526-‐1533<br />
(2004)
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