Anlaug Amanda Djupvik is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

. Her main field of research is

star formation Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in The "medium" is present further soon.-->interstellar space

and the origin of the

initial mass function In astronomy, the initial mass function (IMF) is an empirical function that describes the initial Frequency distribution, distribution of masses for a population of stars. The IMF is an output of the process of star formation. The IMF is often g ...

. She used Kaas as a family name (due to marriage), but changed it back to Djupvik in 2004. She was born in

Førde Førde is a former municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It was located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative center was the town of Førde which in 2016 had 10,255 inhabitants. Other villages in Førde ...

a small town on the west coast of Norway. She grew up in an even smaller village called Leikong on the island of Gurskøy, which is located to the south of the city of

Ålesund Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrative ...

. She started undergraduate studies at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

in August 1986. In January 1992 she obtained the Norwegian Cand. Scient. degree (Master of Science) with her thesis ''Observations and analysis of the mutual phenomena of the Galilean satellites in 1990-1991'', supervised by

Kaare Aksnes Kaare Aksnes (born 25 March 1938 in Kvam in Hardanger) is a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo. Personal life He was born in Kvam, Hordaland as a brother of the chemist Gunnar Aksnes. His parents we ...

. From January 1992 to April 1994 she worked as a support astronomer at the

Nordic Optical Telescope The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) is an astronomical telescope located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma in the Canary Islands. The telescope saw first light in 1988, and was officially inaugurated during September 1989. Regular o ...

(NOT) of the

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory Roque de los Muchachos Observatory ( es, Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of Garafía on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The observatory site is operated ...

site in La Palma, Canary Islands, a student position financed by Norges forskningsråd (The Norwegian Research Council), where she discovered the outer main-belt asteroid on 22 February. From April 1994 to April 1999 she did her Ph.D. studies at the

Stockholm Observatory The Stockholm Observatory ( sv, Stockholms observatorium, 050) is an astronomical observatory and institution in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in the 18th century and today part of Stockholm University. In 1931, the new Stockholm Observatory ( sv, ...

Saltsjöbaden Saltsjöbaden is a locality in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,491 inhabitants in 2010. It is on the Baltic Sea coast, deep in the Stockholm Archipelago. History Saltsjöbaden () was developed as a resort by Knut Agathon Wa ...

, Sweden, under Göran Olofsson. From May 1999 to May 2000 she held a post-doc position at the Astrophysics Division of the

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, ESTEC,

Noordwijk Noordwijk () is a town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water and had a population of in . On 1 January 2019, the former municipality of Noordwij ...

, working with

Malcolm Fridlund Malcolm Carl Wilhelm Fridlund (born 1952), is a Swedish astronomer. He wrote his doctoral thesis 1987 in astronomy at Stockholm UniversityFridlund, C. V. Malcolm, ''Infrared and CO studies of the young stellar object L1551 IRS5 and its associated ...

. In the period 2000-2002 she was a member of a committee of the

Norwegian Research Council The Research Council (also the Research Council of Norway; no, Norges forskningsråd) is a Norwegian government agency that funds research and innovation projects. On behalf of the Government, the Research Council invests NOK 11,9 billion (2021) ...

. Since May 2000 she has been employed as an astronomer at the NOT, first as deputy astronomer-in-charge and later (2002) as acting astronomer-in-charge.

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Personal page at the NOT

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Norwegian astronomers Women astronomers 20th-century astronomers 21st-century astronomers Discoverers of asteroids People from Møre og Romsdal People from Førde {{norway-scientist-stub