Academic interests
Ciska's main research interests center on the formation and processing of dust in the interstellar medium. She led a Spitzer Legacy project (SAGE-Spec) which made an infrared spectroscopic inventory of the dust in a variety of Large Magellanic Cloud environments. She also has an extensive research track record in studying the properties of dust in AGN tori, starburst galaxies, the Milky Way interstellar medium, and the circumstellar environment of post- and pre-main sequence stars.
Education
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2002 PhD - supervisor: LBFM Waters, AGGM Tielens, A. de Koter, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1997 Master - supervisor: EF van Dishoeck, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Positions held
- 2022 - ICREA Research professor, Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) & Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)
- 2018 - Astronomer / European ALMA Program Scientist, European Southern Observatory
- 2010 - (Associate) Research Fellow (“Full” since 2015, temporary transfer since 2018), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2006 - 2011 Lecturer of Physics and Astronomy (tenured since 2009), University of Manchester
- 2005 - 2007 Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia, USA
