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Jelle Kaastra

Professor of High energy astrophysics

Name
Prof.dr. J.S. Kaastra
Telephone
+31 71 527 8124
E-mail
kaastra@strw.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5540-2822

Jelle Kaastra is a Senior Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and a part-time Professor at Leiden University.

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The interests of Jelle Kaastra lie within X-ray spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei (AGN’s), galaxy clusters and the intergalactic and interstellar medium.

Kaastra is principal investigator of the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) of the XMM-Newton, ESA's X-ray multi-mirror mission, and the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS) from Chandra, NASA's mission for X-ray astronomy. He is also part of the advisory board of ASTRO-H, the new satellite of JAXA for X-ray astronomy.

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Professor of High energy astrophysics

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Work address

Huygens
Niels Bohrweg 2
2333 CA Leiden
Room number 423

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Publications

  • SRON/NWO Senior Scientist
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