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By Inga Saathoff 6 min read

I am an astrophysicist currently working as a postdoc at KTH Stockholm.

My main interests up to and including my PhD, which I completed at the University of Tübingen, have been neutron stars as X-ray pulsars and their observational properties. I studied spin reversals in these systems in my bachelor’s thesis and in particular Her X-1 in my master’s thesis. In my PhD thesis I developed a novel approach to understand the different contributions in the pulse profiles of these sources. At KTH I am working with Prof. Josefin Larsson, and I am continuing to analyse X-ray data, but now broadening my horizons to other objects and phenomena such as “Supernova Shock Breakout Emission” and “Pulsar Wind Nebulae”. For more information on my science interests see Science - Research Interests and for some public outreach projects see Public Outreach. You can find my ORCiD here.

Research

  • 2023 - Today
    • Scientific Employee, Postdoc
    • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    • Prof. Josefin Larson
  • 2020 - 2023
    • Scientific Employee & PhD Student
    • Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysics Group, University of Tübingen
    • Prof. Dott. Andrea Santangelo
  • 02.2018 - 05.2018, 08.2018 - 12.2018, 04.2019 - 06.2019, 09.2019 - 11.2019
    • Scientific Assistant
    • Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysics Group, University of Tübingen
    • Prof. Dott. Andrea Santangelo
  • 10.2017 - 12.2017
    • Scientific Assistant
    • Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Section Astronomy, University of Tübingen
    • Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner

Proposals & Publications

You can find my publications on ADS.

  • “Blind source separation for decomposing X-ray pulsar profiles. Introducing phase-correlated variability analysis (PCVA) with a case study of Cen X-3” - Saathoff, I., Doroshenko, V., Santangelo, A., 2024, Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  • “X-ray and optical monitoring of the December 2017 outburst of the Be/X-ray binary AXJ0049.4-7323” - Ducci, L., Malacaria, C., Romano, P., Ji, L., Bozzo, E., Saathoff, I., Santangelo, A., Uda Iski, A. 2018, arXiv e-prints, Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  • Co-Principal Investigator for the Insight-HXMT Proposal “Hunting for cyclotron resonance scattering features in three accreting pulsars”, 2019, accepted.

Teaching & Outreach Activities

  • Summer 2024
    • Supervisor of a summer student (4 weeks)
    • Project: The Physics and Variability of X-ray Pulsars
    • KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Spring 2024
    • Teaching Assistant
    • Course “Mathematical Methods in Physics”
    • KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Spring 2024
    • Supervisor of 2 Bachelor/KEX students
    • Project: Cosmic Lighthouse: Exploring X-ray Pulsars in Python
    • KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  • February-March 2024
    • Teaching Assistant for “Introductory Astronomy for Engineers”
    • Telescope Experiment (imaging and estimating the size and/or distances of galaxies)
    • KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  • October 2023
    • Researcher at an information stand at the Tekniska museet, all ages
    • Forskarlovet at Tekniska museet (engl. Research Holiday at the Museum of Technology), Stockholm
  • July 2022
    • Co-organizer of the “children university day” (Kinder-Uni-Forschertag), age 7-12
    • Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Tübingen
  • April 2022
  • Winter Semester 2021-2022
    • Astronomy & Astrophysics (English, part of the Master of Astro & Particle Physics program)
      • Organising & managing of the exercise classes (2 SWS)
      • Teaching an exercise class (2 SWS)
    • 4 SWS
    • University of Tübingen
  • Summer Semester 2021
    • Teaching an exercise class on Astronomy & Astrophysics (German, part of the Bachelor of Physics program)
    • 2 SWS
    • University of Tübingen
  • Winter Semester 2020-2021
    • Teaching an exercise class on Astronomy & Astrophysics (English, part of the Master of Astro & Particle Physics program)
    • 2 SWS
    • University of Tübingen
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
    • Supervisor of an Internship (focus on an introduction to LaTeX and Python in scientific/astrophysics application)
    • Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Tübingen
  • July 2019
    • Co-organizer of the “children university day” (Kinder-Uni-Forschertag), ages 7-11
    • Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Tübingen

(15 x 45 min = 1 SWS, SemesterWochenStunden)

Conferences & Contributions

Education

Other Talks & Presentations

Contact

Inga Saathoff

Astrophysics Group, Prof. Josefin Larsson
Division of Particle and Astroparticle Physics
Roslagstullsbacken 21
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden

Email: saathoff@kth.se

About Me, Curriculum Vitae (CV)
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