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Ilse van Bemmel is a Project Scientist at JIVE, and Project Manager at ASTRON in Dwingeloo. She got her PhD in astronomy from Groningen in 2002, was an ESA fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute from 2003 to 2005, and a post doc in Leiden from 2006 to 2010. Before joining JIVE, she worked at ASTRON for 4 years as an astronomer and deputy project scientist on the SKA aperture array design studies. Her scientific interests range from active galaxies to hardware technology and user software development. She was co-lead of the calibration team in Event Horizon Telescope when it produced the first image of a black hole shadow, and she coordinated the development of the CASA VLBI tools, which included the organisation of the CASA VLBI schools. Her work in JIVE focuses on calibration of radio interferometry observations, instrument simulations, and astrophysics of active galaxies. Within ASTRON she is the project manager for the central processing cluster replacement for the LOFAR2.0 upgrade. She is a key member of the NAEIC, The Netherlands Astronomy Equity and Inclusion Committee, and lead of the recent astronomy work climate survey.
