Summer Schools:
NAIC/NRAO Single-dish Radio Astronomy Summer School at Arecibo, 2013
NRAO Synthesis Imaging Summer School at the VLA, 2012
CARMA Millimeter-wave Interferometry Summer School, 2010
Vatican Observatory Summer School, 2010
Split International Workshop in Astrophysics, 2007
Awards and Grants
NASA Guest Observer and Theory Grants, 2018--2022
funding awarded in Chandra GO20, NuSTAR GO5, XMM AO20 and AO21
Simons Foundation Travel Grant, 2021
for participation in an Aspen Center for Physics workshop
Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award, 2021
awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
American Astronomical Society Bruno Rossi Prize, 2020
awarded to Shep Doeleman and the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, 2019
awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
NSF Diamond Achievement Award, 2019
awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF), 2014--2017
3-year graduate fellowship: stipend, tuition, and travel funding
International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, 2011--2014
3-year graduate fellowship: stipend, tuition, and travel funding
NASA Group Achievement Awards, 2012 (2), 2014, 2016
4 in total, for contributions to the NuSTAR mission (calibration and science teams)
Top stipendija za top studente, 2009--2010
1-year undergraduate scholarship (the most competitive in Croatia)
AMAC-MA Željka Matutinović Memorial Grant, 2008
undergraduate summer research funding
Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports Scholarship, 2005--2009
4 x 1-year merit-based scholarship
Professional Experience
Observing and Data:
experience with ~100 Ms of NuSTAR observations (spectroscopy, spectral variability)
experience with ~1 Ms of soft X-ray observations, primarily Swift/XRT (spectroscopy, spectral variability)
coordination of (nearly) simultaneous observations in radio, IR/visible/UV, X-ray, and gamma-ray bands
~8 nights at the Keck Telescope (LRIS and DEIMOS, visible spectroscopy and imaging)
~27 nights at the Palomar Hale Telescope (DBSP and TSPEC, visible and near-IR spectroscopy)
~4 nights at the Magellan Baade Telescope (FIRE, high-resolution near-IR spectroscopy)
~7 nights at the Skinakas Observatory (RoboPol, visible polarimetry)
~14 nights at the Combined Array for Milimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA, milimeter-wave interferometry)
Professional Service:
reviewer, panelist: multiple proposal reviews for: NuSTAR, Chandra, Hubble, Palomar/Keck, NESSF (now FINESST)
manuscript peer reviewer: AAS Journals (ApJ, ApJL, ApJS), MNRAS, PASP
talk series co-organizer: Caltech Astronomy astro-ph discussion, Black Hole Initiative (BHI) Colloquium, Yale Astro Colloquium
SOC/LOC member, session chair: Third Annual BHI Conference, Many Faces of Black Hole Accretion (EAS 2021), EHTC Meeting 2021
contributor: NuSTAR Senior Review Proposal, STROBE-X Science Definition Team, Astro 2020 Decadal Survey white papers
public communications manager: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (see the outreach page), Yale Postdoctoral Association
Talks at Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops: Torus 2022: Smoke and Mirrors in Leiden, Netherlands, December 2022 SKIRT Days 2022 in Ghent, Belgium, November 2022 Large Hadron Collider Days in Split 2022 in Split, Croatia, October 2022 Towards the Next Generation of X-ray Surveys with Athena (EAS 2022 symposium) in Valencia, Spain, June 2022 Ten Years of High-Energy Universe in Focus: NuSTAR 2022 in Cagliari, Italy, June 2022 Black Hole Accretion Under the X-ray Microscope in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain, June 2022 New England Regional Quasar and AGN Meeting 2022 in Storrs, CT, USA, and online, May 2022 19th Meeting of the High-energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and online, March 2022
EHT Collaboration Meeting, online, December 2021 From Vision to Instrument: Designing the Next-Generation EHT to Transform Black Hole Science, online, November 2021
Fall 2021 Meeting of the American Physical Society, New England Section, online, October 2021 Young Astronomers on Galactic Nuclei 2021 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and online, September 2021 Black Hole Formation, Accretion, and Outflows Through Cosmic Time workshop in Aspen, CO, USA, and online, July 2021 Accretion History of AGN mini-conference, online, January 2021
AAS Winter Meeting in Honolulu, HI, USA, January 2020 X-calibur 2019: Next-generation X-ray Spectroscopy in Winchester, UK, July 2019 Torus 2018: The Many Faces of AGN Obscuration in Puerto Varas, Chile, December 2018
EHT Collaboration Meeting in Nijmegen, Netherlands, November 2018 Accretion History of AGN meeting at University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA, October 2018
NERQUAM 2018 meeting at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, May 2018
CfA Postdoc Symposium, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2017
STROBE-X Science Definition Team Meeting in Lubbock, TX, USA, September 2017 The Power of X-ray Spectroscopy in Warsaw, Poland, September 2017
AAS Winter Meeting in Grapevine, TX, USA, January 2017 Hidden Monsters: Obscured AGN and Connections to Galaxy Evolution at Dartmouth, NH, USA, August 2016 AGN: What's in a name? in Garching, Germany, July 2016
AAS Summer Meeting in San Diego, CA, USA, June 2016 X-ray View of Black Hole Activity in the Local Universe in Zürich, Switzerland, February 2016 Demographics and Environment of AGN from Multi-wavelength Surveys in Chania, Greece, September 2015 Torus 2015: The Unification Scheme After 30 Years in Winchester, UK, September 2015
IAU GA FM6 (X-ray Surveys of the Hot and Energetic Cosmos) in Honolulu, HI, USA, August 2015
NuSTAR Science Team Meeting in Bologna, Italy, April 2015
AAS Winter Meeting in Seattle, WA, USA, January 2015
NuSTAR Extragalactic Team Workshop in Durham, UK, April 2014
NuSTAR Science Team Meeting in New York, NY, USA, January 2014
NuSTAR Science Team Meeting in Pasadena, CA, USA, March 2013
Seminars and Talks at Academic Institutions:
THEAPA Group Meeting, Cambridge University, May 2022
Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, May 2021
High-energy Group Seminar, Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), February 2020
NuSTAR Group Meeting, California Institute of Technology, January 2020
Physics Department Seminar, University of Zagreb, September 2019
High-energy Astrophysics Group Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2019
Inter-institutional AGN Meeting, European Southern Observatory Headquarters, April 2019
Institute of Astronomy Seminar, University of Cambridge, July 2018
Astronomy Group Seminar, University of Southampton, July 2018
Institute for Theory and Computation Luncheon, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, March 2018
High Energy Seminar, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, February 2018
Quasar Tea Talk, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, January 2018
Black Hole Initiative Colloquium, Harvard University, October 2017
Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, December 2016
Galaxies and Cosmology Seminar, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, November 2016
KIPAC Tea Talk, Stanford University, October 2016
Space Science Laboratory Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, October 2016
Astrophysics Lunch Seminar, Jet Propulsion Lab, October 2016
Galaxy and Black Hole Astrophysics Group Seminar, ETH Zürich, July 2016
INAF - Observatory of Bologna Tuesday Talk, September 2015
Cambridge X-ray Group Seminar (Bun Club), University of Cambridge, May 2015