Ehsan Kourkchi's CV

E H S A N K O U R K C H I

Research Assistant, Recovering the Structure and Dynamics of the Local Universe, 2015-present
Research Assistant, Infalling galaxies into the Virgo Cluster, 2014-present
Research Assistant, A SCUBA-2 850-μm survey of protoplanetary discs in the IC 348 cluster, 2013
Research Assistant, Deep Hα survey of the Coma cluster, 2012
Physics Ph.D. thesis, Scaling relations in Dwarf Galaxies of the Coma cluster of galaxies, 2008-2011
Research Assistant, The effects of inhomogeneities on the observable parameter of the Universe, 2006-2007
Physics M.Sc. thesis, CMB Anisotropy and Polarization in Multiply Connected Universe, 2004-2005 [Thesis]

229th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society,Texas, January 3-7 2017
Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers XI, State College, PA, June 1-5, 2015
Transformational Science with ALMA: From Dust to Rocks to Planets Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems, The Big Island of Hawaii, April 8-12, 2013
Summer School in Cosmology, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 21st July 2008 to 1st August
IPM International School on Weak Gravitational lensing (ISWLP08), Tehran, Iran, July 2-8, 2008
IPM International School on Gravitational Lensing Techniques (ISGLT08 I and II), Tehran, Iran, November 24-29, 2007 and January 9-11, 2008
XXIIIrd IAP Colloquium, ``From Giant Arcs to CMB Lensing: 20 years of gravitational distortion" in Honor of Bernard Fort, Paris, France, July 2-6, 2007.
IPM International Cosmology School and Workshop (ICSW07), Tehran, Iran, June 2-9, 2007
IPM School on Cosmology, Qeshm Island, Iran, January 16-24, 2005
High Performance Computing Workshop, IUCAA, Pune, India, October 5-9, 2004
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA), IUCAA, Pune, India, September 30 - October 1, 2004

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Paris, France, March 2012 [Talk Abstract]
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING), 10 nights observation with INT 2.5-m, La Palma, Spain, March, 2012
Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI), Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, March-April, 2009, to work with Dr. David Carter on "Measuring the Velocity Dispersion of Dwarf Galaxies in the center of Coma Cluster"
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Paris, France, June-July, 2007
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India, July-December, 2005, to work on master thesis on "CMB Anisotropy and Polarization in Multiply Connected Universes" under the supervision of Dr. Tarun Souradeep
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India, July-October, 2004, to work with Dr. Tarun Souradeep on ``the Effects of Global Topology of the Universe on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Anisotropy''

Inquiry Lab Instructor, Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators (ISEE) Professional Development Program, Designed and taught 11-hr inquiry lab on Sequential execution of tasks in algorithms, and justifying design choices, 2015
Teaching Assistant, Survey of Astronomy (a basic introductory course to astronomical science for non-science students), 2012-2013
Organizer of the 2nd Optical Data Reduction Workshop (ODRW2), and taught the concepts of data reduction, Tehran, Iran, February 7-9, 2012
IPM School and Workshop on Optical Data Reduction (ODRW), tutor of the computational sessions, Tehran, Iran, October 11-20, 2008
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Physics I/II (Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism), Sharif University of Technology, 2006-2010
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Physics Lab (Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism), Sharif University of Technology, 2005-2010