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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | Astronomy |
| Keywords | Solar-type stars, Forward modelling techniques, Stellar oscillations, Asteroseismology, Stellar interior physics |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Branco Weiss fellowship (Germany and Uganda )worth EUR 100,000 per year 2019: Alexander Humboldt research fellowship - Germany 2019: Research visit grant at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik - Germany, worth EUR 1,780 2019: Research visit grant at the University of Granada - Spain, worth EUR 1,300 2019: Travel grant to Conference in Corlorado - USA, worth EUR 2,145 2018: Travel grant to the Lorentz Center - Netherlands, worth EUR 500 2018: Travel grant to the Thuringer Landerssternwarte Tautenburg - Germany, worth EUR 200 2015: PhD::SPACE fellowship in Portugal worth EUR 50000 2015: Research grant at the Max Planck Institute for Solar system research Germany with EUR 4,000 2012: M.Sc Fellowship by International Science Program - Sweden, worth 2,300 2011: B.Sc Scholarship by Ugandan Government - Uganda, worth EUR 2,400 in tuition fees |
Current contact address
| Country | Uganda |
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| City | Kampala |
| Institution | Kyambogo University |
| Institute | Department of Physics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Achim Weiß | Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/07/2020 |
Programme(s)
| 2019 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2021 | {Nsamba}, Benard and {Moedas}, Nuno and {Campante}, Tiago L. and {Cunha}, Margarida S. and {Hern{\'a}ndez}, Antonio Garc{\'\i}a and {Su{\'a}rez}, Juan C. and {Monteiro}, M{\'a}rio J.~P.~F.~G. and {Fernandes}, Jo{\~a}o and {Jiang}, Chen and {Akinsanmi}, Babatunde: {Asteroseismic modelling of solar-type stars: a deeper look at the treatment of initial helium abundance}. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500, 2021, 54-65 |
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| 2020 | {Rocha}, C. I. S. A, and {Cunha}, M. S, and {Monteiro}, M. J. P. F. G, and {Nsamba}, B, and {Campante}, T. L: {16 Cygni A: A Testbed for Stellar Core Physics}. In: Dynamics of the Sun and Stars. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Monteiro M.J.P.F.G., García R.A., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., McIntosh S.W. (eds), 57, 2020, 281-283 |
| 2020 | Ball, Warrick H and Chaplin, William J and Nielsen, Martin B and González-Cuesta, Lucia and Mathur, Savita and Santos, Ângela R G and García, Rafael and Buzasi, Derek and Mosser, Benoît and Deal, Morgan and Stokholm, Amalie and Mosumgaard, Jakob Rørsted and Silva Aguirre, Victor and Nsamba, Benard and Campante, Tiago and Cunha, Margarida S and Ong, Joel and Basu, Sarbani and Örtel, Sibel and Çelik Orhan, Z and Yıldız, Mutlu and Stassun, Keivan and Kane, Stephen R and Huber, Daniel: {Robust asteroseismic properties of the bright planet host HD 38529}. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499, 2020, 6084-6093 |
| 2020 | Chen Jiang and Timothy R. Bedding and Keivan G. Stassun and Dimitri Veras and Enrico Corsaro and Derek L. Buzasi and Przemys{\l}aw Miko{\l}ajczyk and Qian-sheng Zhang and Jian-wen Ou and Tiago L. Campante and Tha{\'{\i}}ise S. Rodrigues and Benard Nsamba and Diego Bossini and Stephen R. Kane and Jia Mian Joel Ong and Mutlu Y{\i}ld{\i}z and Zeynep {\c{C}}elik Orhan and Sibel Örtel and Tao Wu and Xinyi Zhang and Tanda Li and Sarbani Basu and Margarida S. Cunha and J{\o}rgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and William J. Chaplin: {TESS} Asteroseismic Analysis of the Known Exoplanet Host Star {HD} 222076. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 896, 2020, 65 |