Recent activities:

22-23 July 2010:
Participating in the 3rd Sunrise Science Meeting, Bremen, Germany (Oral Presentation)

18-25 July 2010:
Participating in the 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Bremen, Germany (Poster Presentation)

12-16 July 2010:
Attending an Intensive course in Asteroseismology and Stellar Structure, The Institute for Astrophysics at the Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

11-23 June 2010:
Observing at SST (Swedish Solar Telescope) and DOT (Dutch Open Telescope) in La Palma, Canaries, Spain

4-5 May 2010:
Participating in the Second Sunrise Science Meeting, Kiepenheuer-Institut fur Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany.
Title of the presentation (oral): Structure and dynamics of the Sunrise Ca II H bright features.

16-17 March 2010:
Participating in the"First Sunrise Science Meeting", MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.
Title of the presentation (oral): Relation between the Sunrise photospheric magnetic field and the Ca II H bright features.

1-5 March 2010:
Participating in the "Solar Corona and Solar Wind Lectures" given by Dr. Hardi Peter and Prof. Eckart Marsch, MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.

11-13 January 2010:
Participating in "USO-SP Final Gathering", Tammsvik, Sweden.
Organized by: USO-SP International Graduate School for Solar Physics and the Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Title of the presentation (oral): Observations and data reduction at SST.

30 November - 4 December 2009:
Participating in "Hinode-3: The Third Hinode Science Meeting", Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan.
Organized by: Hinode Science Center, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
Title of the presentation (poster): Chromospheric observations with CRISP at the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope

14-16 October 2009:
Participating in the "1st EAST-ATST Workshop" in Solar Physics, Freiburg, Germany.
Organized by: The European Association for Solar Telescopes (EAST).

10 June - 15 December 2009:
Awarding a 6-month USO-SP Marie Curie research (traineeship) fellowship at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway. I worked on reduction of a SST data set, using the MOMFBD (Multi-Object Multi-Frame Blind Deconvolution) image restoration technique and under the supervision of Dr. Luc Rouppe van der Voort.

On 15 April 2009, I successfully defended my master thesis titled "Detection of Faint Stars near Gaia Objects". The PDF version report of this successful research work, which I proudly did under the supervision of Professor Lennart Lindegren, can be found here.

On February 2009, I joined the "100 Hours of Astronomy" team by blogging at this project's website. "100 Hours of Astronomy" was an official cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Together with some colleagues, I also organized different public outreach activities for the "100 Hours of Astronomy" event in Lund, Sweden.

During 9-10 February, 2009, I was participating in "Extreme Astrophysics for All", a workshop on both high-energy astrophysics as well as gravitational-wave astronomy; held at Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden.

During October 13-18, 2008, I was participating in the "I-science workshop on data mining, distributed computing and visualization for astronomy" at Lorentz Center, Leiden Observatory, in the Netherlands. (Workshop Poster)

From August 10 to August 24, 2008, I was participating in the Nordic-Baltic Research School 2008 with the topic of Observational Stellar Astrophysics, held at the Moletai Observatory in Lithuania.
This school was financially supported by NordForsk, the Nordic Research Board operating under the Nordic Council of Ministers for Education and Research. (School Poster)

From June 22, 2008, I had a great vacation starting with a 20 days ground trip (with a good friend) from Lund (Sweden) to Tehran (Iran), travelling through Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Greece and Turkey :)

Participating in "Crafoord Day 2008", featuring the 2008 Crafoord Laureates in Mathematics and Astrophysics, on April 21, 2008; at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.

I had the following courses at Lund Observatory during January-June 2008:

Statistical and Numerical Tools in Astrophysics II, given by Lennart Lindegren and David Hobbs

Observational Techniques and Instrumentation, given by Lennart Lindegren

Laboratory Astrophysics, given by Henrik Hartman and Hampus Nilsson

Participating in "Gaia for all", a mini-workshop on Gaia, on February 4-5, 2008; at Lund Observatory in Lund, Sweden.

I had the following course at Lund Observatory during November-December 2007:

Statistical and Numerical Tools in Astrophysics I, given by Lennart Lindegren

In November 29-30, 2007, I participated in the "Symposium on Extremely Large Telescopes" at Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden.

From August 5 till November 2, 2007, I spent my time interning at SST (Swedish Solar Telescope) at ENO (European Northern Observatory) in La Palma (Canaries, Spain); under a generous grant from the Institute for Solar Physics under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The main goal of this grant was to enrich the experiential training of the professional solar observation as well as working as a student support astronomer at the current best high resolution solar telescope located in top of a high mountain (2400 m from sea level) in La Palma Island in Atlantic Ocean.

In addition, I participated in the following events, in La Palma:

USO (Utrecht-Stockholm-Oslo) Seminars on Solar Physics (Sep. 24-Oct. 2, 2007):

The Halpha Chromosphere, Rob Rutten

Image Reconstruction, José Antonio Bonet Navarro

Fibrils, Mottles, Spicules and Straws, Reinier Zeldenrust

Flux Emergence, Fernando Moreno Insertis

Solar Variations and the Earth Climate, Vicente Domingo

Emergence and Dispersal of Magnetic Elements, Pedzi Girigori

Measuring Proper Motions, Santiago Vargas Dominguez

Speckle Reconstruction, Pit Suetterlin

The 2007 USO La Palma School (Oct. 20-25, 2007):

CaII-HK and Halpha Chromospheres, Rob Rutten

Dynamic Fibrils in CaII-IR, Øystein Langangen

Kees Zwaan and the Open Principle: The Future of Solar Telescopes, Rob Hammerschlag

Umbral Dots in Halpha, Nikola Vitas

Low-Order p-Mode Energy Distribution, Vasco Henriques

Measure Magnetic Fields Quiet Sun, Helena Maria Becher-Bengtson

Modelling of Stellar Coronae, Leandro Jesus