About

Eline Tolstoy is a full Professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen She obtained her PhD from the University of Groningen (1995). She carried out postdoctoral research in Germany, where he was an ESA fellow (1996-1998) and an ESO fellow (1998-2000) at ESO in Garching (near Munich). She then moved to the University of Oxford (UK) to work in the Gemini support group (2000-2001), supporting UK use of the first Gemini telescope (Mauna Kea, Hawai'i). In 2001 she joined the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute as a KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences) Fellow & Assistant Professor, becoming full professor in 2011. She has published around 250 scientific papers on various astrophysical topics. She is received an NWO VICI grant (2007), the Pastoor-Schmeits Prize (2007) and the George Darwin Lectureship of the Royal Astronomical Society, UK (2013). She was a Sackler visitor at the IoA, Cambridge in 2017. Since 2013 she is the Dutch PI and Instrument scientist of MICADO, the first light instrument for the ELT.