Curriculum Vitae

CV in PDF format.

Ioana Monica Hasegan

Email: mhasegan at gmail dot com
Web page: http://individual.utoronto.ca/monica_hasegan

Education

2007 Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. Doctoral Thesis: "Faint Stellar Systems in the Virgo Cluster: The Connection between Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters", Advisor - Dr. Patrick Côté.
1998 M.Sc. in Particle Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania. Master of Science Thesis: "Acceptance Analysis for a Large Area Monopole Experiment using Nuclear Track Detectors", Advisor - Dr. Vlad Popa, Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.
1997 B.Sc., Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania. Senior Thesis: "A Comparative Study of the CMB Radiation Anisotropy with the COBE Data", Advisor - Dr. Lucia Popa, Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.

Professional History

2010--present Research Fellow, Dr. Laurence Pelletier laboratory, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Supervisor - Dr. Laurence Pelletier.
2007--2009 Research Fellow, Mouse Imaging Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Supervisor - Prof. R. Mark Henkelman.
2005 Visiting Researcher, National Research Council of Canada's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada.
1997--2000 Research Assistant, Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.
1996 Visiting Research Scientist, Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

Teaching Experience

2003 Head Teaching Assistant for General Physics Lab, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA.
2000-2001 Teaching Assistant for General Physics Lab, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA.

Telescope Observation Experience

2005 Visiting Astronomer, W.M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii, USA.
2003 Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, USA.
2002 Student, Robert A. Schommer Astronomical Observatory 20-inch optical telescope, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.

Computer Skills

Astronomy software: IRAF, ESO-MIDAS, FCQ, pPXF, TinyTIM.
Programming languages: MATLAB, FORTRAN, Bash scripting.

Conferences, Summer Schools

2006 "207th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society", Washington, D.C., USA.
2005 "Near-Field Cosmology with Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies", IAU Colloquim No. 198, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
2005 "205th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society", San Diego, California, USA.
2004 "204th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society", Denver, Colorado, USA.
1998 "1998 Course on: 3K Cosmology from Space", International School of Space Sciences, L'Aquila, Italy.
1998 "5th School on Non-Accelerator Particle Astrophysics", The "Abdus Salam" International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
1995 "4th School on Non-Accelerator Particle Astrophysics", The "Abdus Salam" International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

Invited Talks

2005 Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.

Professional Societies

2004--2006 Junior member, American Astronomical Society.

Refereed publications

2013 D. Comartin, G. D. Gupta, E. Fussner, E. Coyaud, M. Hasegan, M. Archinti, S. W.T. Cheung, D. Pinchev, S. Lawo, B. Raught, D. Bazett-Jones, J. Luders, L. Pelletier 2013, "CEP120 and SPICE1 cooperate with CPAP in centriole elongation", Current Biology, accepted June 3rd, 2013.
2012 S. Lawo, M. Hasegan, G. D. Gupta, L. Pelletier 2012, "Subdiffraction imaging of centrosomes reveals higher-order organizational features of pericentriolar material", Nature Cell Biology, Nov, 14(11), 1148.
2006 L. Ferrarese., P. Côté, E. Dalla Bonta, E.W. Peng, D. Merritt, A. Jordán, J.P. Blakeslee, M. Hasegan, S. Mei, S. Piatek, J.L. Tonry & M.J. West, "A Fundamental Relation Between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 644, 21.
2006 P. Côté, S. Piatek, L. Ferrarese, A. Jordán, D. Merritt, E.W. Peng, M. Hasegan, J.P. Blakeslee, S. Mei, M.J. West, M. Milosavljevic & J.L. Tonry, "The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VIII. The Nuclei of Early-Type Galaxies", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 644, L21.
2005 M. Hasegan, A. Jordán, P. Côté, S.G. Djorgovski, D.E. McLaughlin, J.P. Blakeslee, S. Mei, M.J. West, L. Ferrarese, M. Milosavljevic, J.L. Tonry & D. Merritt, "The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VII. Resolving the Connection between Globular Clusters and Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies", Astrophysical Journal, 627, 203.
1998 M. Hasegan & V. Popa, "Acceptance analysis for a large area monopole experiment using nuclear track detectors", Romanian Reports in Physics, 50, 507.
1998 M. Hasegan, L. Popa & P. Stefanescu, "A comparative study of the CMB radiation anisotropy with the COBE data", Romanian Reports in Physics, 50, 515.

Abstracts

2005 M. Hasegan, "Faint Stellar Systems: Ultra-Luminous Globular Clusters and Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies", Bull. Amer. Astr. Soc., 207, 8903.
2005 M. Hasegan & P. Côté, "Faint Stellar Systems in the Virgo Cluster: Ultracompact Dwarfs and Globular Clusters", Near-Field Cosmology with Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies, Proceedings IAU Colloquim No. 198, H. Jerjen & B. Binggeli eds.
2004 M. Hasegan, A. Jordán, P. Côté, S.G. Djorgovski, J.P. Blakeslee, S. Mei, M.J. West, E.W. Peng, D.E. McLaughlin, L. Ferrarese, D. Merritt, M. Milosavljevic & J.L. Tonry, "The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey: Understanding the Connection between Globular Clusters and Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies", Bull. Amer. Astr. Soc., 205, 16905.
2004 I.M. Hasegan & P. Côté, "Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster: Internal Dynamics", Bull. Amer. Astr. Soc., 204, 8011.
2003 M. West, P. Côté, J.P. Blakeslee, L. Ferrarese, M. Hasegan, A. Jordán, S. Mei, D. Merritt, D.E. McLaughlin & M. Milosavljevic,"The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey", Extragalactic Globular Clusters and their Host Galaxies, 25th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion, 10E, 45W.
2003 P. Côté, J.P. Blakeslee, L. Ferrarese, M. Hasegan, A. Jordán, S. Mei, D. Merritt, D.E. McLaughlin, M. Milosavljevic & E. Peng, "The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey: Program Status Report and FIRS", Extragalactic Globular Clusters and their Host Galaxies, 25th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion, 6E, 39C.
1998 M. Hasegan & V. Popa, "Acceptance Analysis for a Large Area Monopole Experiment using Nuclear Track Detectors", 5th School on Non-Accelerator Particle Astrophysics, Trieste, Italy.
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