K. A. Lutz

Previous positions and Education

After a Bachelor and Masters degree in Physics from the Technical University of Munich (GER), I recieved my PhD in Astronomy from Swinburne University of Technology in Melboune (AUS). Since 2018, I am working as a postdoc for the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg within the Observatory of Strasbourg (FRA).
- Previously
Publications and Talks

I have published ten refereed papers, for three of which I am the first author. In addition, I led four blog posts on AstroBetter and three ADASS conference proceedings. I frequently contribute talks and posters to international conferences.
- Publications
Teaching and Educating

Besides teaching the use of Virtual Observatory tools and services, I also supervise Master and Bachelor projects. I have also worked with interns. While one intern studied web design and redesigned the EURO-VO webpage (soon to go live), most of the interns were still at school and interested in becoming an astronomer.
- Teaching
Service work and engagement

I am an active member of the astronomical community. As such I have been involved in the organisation of multiple conferences, workshops and talk series, and served on various committees and as a journal referee.
- Service

Skills, Tools and Experience

Python

For most of my data analysis I use Python and a multitude of packages, including Astropy, Pandas, Keras with Tensorflow, Numpy, Scipy, and Scikit-Learn
For interactive, exploration analysis I use Jupyter notebooks and for automation of tasks I use scripts.
To demonstrate th access of Virtual Observatory services and archives with Python, I have created a set of Jupyter notebooks with my colleague Ada Nebot.

Astronomical Data Reduction Software

Virtual Observatory-aware Software

German (native), English (C2), French (B1), Spanish (A1)

Lead of the HI specific angular momentum project in the MALS survey on MeerKAT
Member of the MIGHTEE-HI science team
Member of the WALLABY science team

Co-Investigator of multiple projects mapping the HI content of local galaxies:
- A large observing program to map the atomic hydrogen in HI-rich galaxies. (PI: V. Kilborn) The data are the foundation of my PhD thesis and are published in Lutz et al. (2018). Data cubes can be found in VizieR.
- A project with the ATCA to map the atomic hydrogen in gas poor galaxies. (PI: V. Kilborn). Results are published in Murugeshan et al. (2019).
- The Lord of the Rings: a large project with the ATCA to map the atomic hydrogen in gas poor galaxies. (PI: C. Murugeshan)
Observing with the ATCA for more than 300h
Supporting continuum and spectral line observations at wavelengths of 16cm, 4cm, 15mm, 7mm and 4mm as the Duty Astronomer

30h to observe the mm continuum emission of NGC4214 with the NIKA2 camera, observations are queued (PI: K. Lutz)
60h of observations of the CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) mission line spectra in local galaxies for the xGASS / xCOLDGASS project (see Saintonge et al. (2017))

PI of a project to map the HI and L-band continuum in the NGC1052 group, observations are ongoing

PI of a project mapping the gas-phase metallicity of local galaxies (18 nights granted), results are published in Lutz et al. (2020)

PI of a project for deep imaging of local galaxies and their environment (2 Nights granted)

5 nights of observations of optical longslit spectra of local galaxies for the xGASS / xCOLDGASS projects (Lutz et al. submitted)