 Personalia
|  Full name
|  | Henrik Willem Walter Spoon |
| Nationality
| | Dutch |
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| Education | 1999-2003
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| University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| | | PhD in Astronomy (October 20, 2003) |
| 1986-1992
|
| University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| | | MSc in Astronomy (November 30, 1992) |
| 1980-1986
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| Gemeentelijk Gymnasium, Hilversum, The Netherlands. |
| Experience | 2003-2006
|
| Cornell University Astronomy Department, Ithaca NY, USA. |
| | | Spitzer Fellow |
| 2001-2003
|
| Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands. |
| | | PhD student. Promotor: Prof. Xander Tielens |
| 1999-2001
|
| European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany. |
| | | PhD student. Supervisor: Dr. Alan Moorwood |
| 1996-1998
|
| Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik,
Garching, Germany. |
| | | Support astronomer in the ISO group of the Infrared Department. |
| | | Tasks: |
| | | 
Development of the MPE IDL Cloudy Environment (MICE): |
| | | a shell around Gary Ferland's photo-ionization code
Cloudy, |
| | | facilitating computation and analysis of large grids of Cloudy models. |
| | | Model simulations of star burst evolution,
using Cloudy and Stars |
| | | (a stellar population and spectral synthesis code developed at |
| | | Tel Aviv University). |
| | | Processing and analysis of
ISO-PHT-S
spectrophotometric data |
| | | obtained for AGNs, ULIRGs and starburst galaxies. |
| 1993-1996
|
| Space Research Organisation Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands. |
| | | Project co-worker in the
ISO-SWS (Infrared Space Observatory |
| | | Short Wave Spectrometer) project. Tasks: |
| | | Selection and modeling of planetary nebulae
to be used as |
| | | wavelength calibration sources for ISO-SWS. |
| | | Compilation of a database of observed
spectral energy distributions |
| | | of astronomical calibration sources for ISO-SWS. |
| 1991-1992
|
| Astronomical Institute Utrecht, The Netherlands: |
| | | Undergraduate research. Supervisor: Prof. Henny Lamers. Topics: |
| | | Homogenisation and visualisation of
optical-photometric |
| | | observations of Luminous Blue Variables.
[Paper] |
| | | Investigation of the visual variability of six LBVs.
[Paper] |
| Publications | Astronomy
| | Publication list |
| Languages | Native
| | Dutch |
| Fluent |
| English,German |
| Working on |
| Spanish,French |
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