Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg

Professor Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg (born 1954) is a Dutch - South African scientist.

Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg
Born (1954-05-07) 7 May 1954
Amsterdam
Alma materUniversity of Basle, Switzerland
Spouse(s)Pieter Kraan
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorProf. Dr. G.A. Tammann

She is Head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Cape Town as well as Founder and Co-director of the Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre.[1] She also serves as Vice-President of Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union.[2] She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.[3]

Her research interests include the Large Scale Structure and streaming motions in the nearby universe. She also conducts research with the South African Large Telescope (SALT), including searching for black holes in the centre of dwarf elliptical galaxies and looking at how much dark matter there is in low surface brightness galaxies[4]. She was one of the lead authors in the breakthrough paper “The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey”[5], which used the Parkes 60m Radio Telescope to discover nearby galaxies that were previously "hidden" by the gravitational anomaly known as the Great Attractor[6].

References
  1. http://www.ast.uct.ac.za/~kraan/cv.html
  2. https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/6929/
  3. https://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/about-assaf/members#S
  4. "Personal". mensa.ast.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  5. Staveley-Smith, L.; Kraan-Korteweg, R. C.; Schröder, A. C.; Henning, P. A.; Koribalski, B. S.; Stewart, I. M.; Heald, G. (2016). "The Parkes H I Zone of Avoidance Survey". The Astronomical Journal. 151 (3): 52. arXiv:1602.02922. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/151/3/52. ISSN 1538-3881.
  6. "SA astronomers help discover hidden galaxies behind Milky Way". SAAO. 2016-02-10. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
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