Ivan Valtchanov

    Instrument and Calibration Scientist

     

    Main Research Fields

    Clusters and groups of galaxies, large-scale structure of the Universe, Cosmology, multi-wavelength observations, high redshift objects, machine learning methods, data analysis.


    Ongoing collaborations

    • Member of XXL - the Ultimate XMM Extragalactic Survey
    • Member of IACHEC - the International Astrophysical Consortium for High Energy Calibration

    Past Projects:
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    Herschel Related:

    • PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP).
    • The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES)
    • Herschel-ATLAS (PI: Steve Eales)
    • The Herschel Lensing Survey (PI: Eiichi Egami)
    • The Herschel survey in GOODS (PI: David Elbaz)
    • Deep SPIRE FTS follow-up of H-ATLAS lensed sub-mm galaxies (PI: Ivan Valtchanov)
    • The star formation history of galaxy clusters (PI: Bruno Altieri)
    • Herschel imaging photometry of nearby Seyfert galaxies: testing the coexistence of AGN and starburst activity and the nature of the dusty torus (PI: Miguel Sanchez-Portal)
    • Herschel In-situ Asteroid & Comet Observation programme (PI: Larry O'Rourke)
    • SPIRE Snapshot Survey of Massive Galaxy Clusters (PI: Eiichi Egami)
    • Death by Debris: Testing a new picture of Star Formation Quenching in Compact Groups (PI: Michelle Cluver)
    • Charting the Cooling Pathways in High-Speed Extragalactic Shocks (PI: Phil Appleton)
    • A Star formation oasis in the middle of a "cluster desert" (PI: Paola Popesso)
    • Characterising the ISM of bright, lensed star-forming galaxies across cosmic time with the SPIRE-FTS (PI: Rob Ivison)
    • THE HERSCHEL-AKARI NEP DEEP SURVEY: the cosmological history of stellar mass assembly and black hole accretion (PI: Stephen Serjeant)

    Other:

    Publications

    Current (Sep 2023) h-index, according to ADS: 72


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    Project/mission at ESA

    Current (2018- now): XMM-Newton

    Past (2005-2018): Herschel

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