Johan Fynbo
Professor at Niels Bohr Institute, Københavns Universitet
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJohan Fynbo is a professor of observational astrophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute and the Cosmic DAWN Center in Copenhagen with roughly 20 years of research experience and more than 300 refereed publications, including multiple papers in Nature and Science. He specializes in the study of distant galaxies, cosmology and gamma-ray bursts, combining observational campaigns with the design and development of astronomical spectrographs and imagers. Johan has a long record of teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in cosmology, galaxy formation and observational techniques, and has served as a teaching assistant in core physics subjects like linear algebra and quantum mechanics. His career spans roles at leading institutions including ESO, the Dark Cosmology Centre and the University of Aarhus, reflecting deep international research collaborations. Beyond academia he is an active public communicator on astronomy and the science–religion dialogue, bringing complex topics to broad audiences. An experimentalist at heart, he often bridges instrument development and large observational programs to push the frontier of high-redshift galaxy studies.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Natural Science, PhD, Natural Science at Aarhus UniversityKolding Amtsgymnasium
Github Skills (11)
mass-spectrometry3
reduction3
infrared3
cosmology3
astronomy2
mercury2
python2
astropy1
astrophysics1
collaboration1
uniform1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
keheintz/PyReduc
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:85 commits, 83 pushes in 2 years 7 months
jfynbo/PyLongslit
May 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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