Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Sera Markoff Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek” University of Amsterdam Park 904 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands T +31 20 525 7478/7491 F +31 20 525 7484 [email protected]

PERSONAL DETAILS Date and place of birth — 6 July 1971, Minneapolis, MN, USA Citizenship — USA Languages — English (native), Dutch (near fluent), German (near fluent)

EDUCATION 2000 — PhD, Theoretical Program, , Tucson, AZ, USA , thesis title “High Energy Processes in the Galactic Center” 1996 — M.A., /Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA 1993 — B.S., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

CAREER EXPERIENCE 2017- present — Full Professor, University of Amsterdam (UvA). Supervision to date: 10 postdocs, 9 PhDs, 13 MSc students, 8 BSc students 2008- 2016 — Universitair Hoofddocent (Associate Prof.), UvA 2011 - 2014 (incl.)— Director Master’s Program in & Astrophysics, UvA 2006-2008 — Universitair Docent (Assistant Professor), UvA 2002-2005 — National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 2000-2002 — A.v. Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany 1994-2000 — Graduate student researcher at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, advisor: Prof. Fulvio Melia 1993-1994 — Visiting graduate student researcher at the Racah Institute for Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, host: Prof. Avishai Dekel 1990-1993 — Undergraduate researcher at the MIT Center for Space Research, advisor: Prof. Claude Canizares, thesis: “The Unusual ROSAT Quasar PG1407+265”

RESEARCH INTERESTS Accretion and outflows around black holes of all mass scales, and the relationship between them, as well as their impact on their surroundings. High energy astrophysics, astroparticle physics, transients, multi-messenger astrophysics from low-frequency radio through gamma-rays, as well as cosmic rays and neutrinos. Instrumentation: The global mm-VLBI project The , and the next generation GeV/TeV gamma-ray facility Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

AWARDS & HONORS 2018 — Westerdijk Professorship Prize (NWO) 2015 — VICI personal career award (NWO): From micro- to mega-scales: understanding how black holes shape the local Universe (5 years) 2015 — Tinsley Centennial Visiting Professorship, UT Austin, 2/20/15-5/2/15 2014 — Named Fellow of the American Physical Society (top 0.5% of membership) 2013 — Visiting Professorship, University Paris Diderot (VII), 3/1/13—5/31/13 2007 — VIDI personal career award (NWO), Understanding the Physics of Jets and Accretion States from Stellar to Galactic Scales (5 years) 2002 — National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (3 years) 2000 — A.v. Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship (2 years) 1999 — University of Arizona Graduate College Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship (1 year) 1996 — National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellow (3 years) 1995 — University of Arizona Graduate Student Fellow (1 year) 1994 — NASA Space Grant Graduate Student Fellow (1 Year) 1993 — Sigma Pi Sigma, Physics Honor Society (MIT)

SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS 2015 — NWO VICI innovation grant €1.5M 2014— NWO Astroparticle Physics Program, Determining the contribution of X-ray Binaries to the Galactic cosmic ray population, and their TeV emission properties, (Co-PIs: S. Markoff & B. Achterberg), €215k 2014— NWO Astroparticle Physics Program, CTA-NL: Establishing the Netherlands as full member country of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, (PI: D. Berge, CoIs: Markoff, Vink, Venema, Stuik, Hörandel, van den Berg), €645k 2013— NOVA-4 Instrumentation, Camera & Detector Development for CTA, (PI: J. Vink, CoIs: Berge, Markoff, Hörandel, Stuik, Venema, van den Berg), €1.5M 2013— NWO Open Competition, First steps towards calibrating black hole jet feedback: a decisive link between inflow and outflow, €180k 2012— NOVA-4, Our Galactic Sgr A*, €180k 2012 — NWO Graduate Programme proposal for GRAPPA (Co-PI with J. Vink, P. Decowski, J. de Boer), €800k 2011 — NOVA-3 Instrumentation, Extending NOVA seed funding for CTA: A bridge towards NWO-M funds for astrometry, PI, with J. Vink, €60k seed funding 2011 — NASA Chandra X-ray Visionary Program: 3Msec on Galactic supermassive black hole Sgr A* (Co-PI with F. Baganoff & M. Nowak), $390k 2008 — Co-coordinator, with Jörn Wilms (Uni Erlangen), of the EU FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Black Hole Universe” linking UvA, Erlangen/Nürnberg (D), Southampton (UK), CEA Saclay (F), INAF Brera (IT), U Cagliari (IT) and Sabanci University (Turkey), ~€2.5M 2007 — NOVA-3 Instrumentation, Bringing TeV Astronomy to the Netherlands, PI, with J. Vink, €15k seed funds 2007 — NWO VIDI program + Aspasia subsidy, €700k 2007 — NASA Astrophysics Theory Program grant (PI: D. Meier, CoIs: Markoff, Nakamura & Fragile), $311k 2006 — NWO Open Competition, Constraining jet physics in accreting black holes, €185k Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS As of May 2018 (ADS): 156 refereed publications, 8518 citations, h=47, 17 >100 citations, (Note: underlined, bold names were directly supervised by me while working in my group)

Connors, R., van Eijnatten, D., S. Markoff, Ceccobello, C., Grinberg, V. , Heil, L., Lucchini, M., Crumley, P. 2018, MNRAS, subm.. Inflow and outflow: What can we learn from the evolving spectral and timing properties of black hole X-ray binaries? Crumley, P., Caprioli, D., Markoff, S. & Spitkovsky, A. 2018, MNRAS, subm. Particle Acceleration in Mildly Relativistic Shocks I: Bell-Mediated Shocks Lucchini, M., Markoff, S., Crumley, P., Krauss, F., Connors, R. 2018, MNRAS, subm. New, conserved magnetic outflow model for BL Lacs: Application to PKS2155-304 Ceccobello, C., Cavecchi, Y., Heemskerk, M., Markoff, S., et al. 2018, MNRAS, 473, 4417 A new method for extending solutions to the self-similar relativistic magnetohydrodynamics equations for black hole outflows Gültekin, K., King, A.L., Cackett, E., Nyland, K., Miller, J.M., di Matteo, T., Markoff, S. & Rupen, M. 2018, ApJ, Subm. The Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Accretion and its Use as a Black Hole Mass Estimator Liska, M., Tchekhovskoy, A., Hesp, C., van der Klis, M., Ingram, A. and Markoff, S. 2018 MNRAS, 474, L81 Precession and alignment of disks and jets around spinning black holes in global general relativistic MHD simulations Gandhi, P., Bachetti, M., Dhillon, V.S. et al. 2017, NatAs, 1, 859 An elevation of 0.1 light-seconds for the optical jet base in an accreting Galactic black hole system Maitra, D., Scarpaci, J.F., Grinberg, V., Reynolds, M.T., Markoff, S., et al. 2017, ApJ, 851, 148 Simultaneous Multiwavelength Observations of V404 Cygni during its 2015 June Outburst Decay Strengthen the Case for an Extremely Energetic Jet-base Middleton, M.J., Casella, P., Gandhi, P., et al. 2017, NewAR, 79, 26 Paving the way to simultaneous multi-wavelength astronomy Egron, E., Pellizzoni, A., Giroletti, M., et al. 2017, MNRAS, 471, 2703 Single-dish and VLBI observations of Cygnus X-3 during the 2016 giant flare episode Tetarenko, A.J.l, Sivakoff, G.R., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., et al. 2017, MNRAS, 469, 3141 Extreme jet ejections from the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni Capellupo, D.M., Haggard, D., Choux, N., et al. 2017, ApJ, 845, 35 Simultaneous Monitoring of X-Ray and Radio Variability in * Bower, G.C., Dexter, J., Markoff, S., Rao, R. & Plambeck, R.L. 2017, ApJL, 843, L31 What Is the Hidden Depolarization Mechanism in Low-luminosity AGNs? Zhang, S. et al. 2017, ApJ, 843, 96 Sgr A⋆ high energy X-ray flare properties during NuSTAR monitoring of the Galactic Center from 2012 to 2015 Gaggero, D., Bertone, G., Calore, F., Connors, R.M. T.; Lovell,M., Markoff, S., Storm, E. 2017, PRL, 118, 241101 Searching for Primordial Black Holes in the radio and X-ray sky Tetarenko, A.J, Sivakoff, G.R., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., et al. 2017, MNRAS, in press. Extreme Jet Ejections from the Black Hole X-ray Binary V404 Cygni Connors, R., Markoff, S., et al. 2017, MNRAS, 466, 4121 Mass-scaling as a method to constrain outflows and particle acceleration from low-luminosity accreting black holes van Oers, P., Markoff, S., Uttley, P., McHardy, I., et al. 2017, MNRAS, 468, 435 A jet-dominated model for a broad-band spectral energy distribution of the nearby low-luminosity active galactic nucleus in M94 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Coughlan, C.P., Ainsworth, R.E., Eislöffel, J., et al. 2017, ApJ, 834, 206 A LOFAR Detection of the Low-mass Young Star T Tau at 149 MHz Plotkin, R., Miller-Jones, J.,Gallo, E. et al. 2017, ApJ, 834, 104 The 2015 Decay of the Black Hole X-Ray Binary V404 Cygni: Robust Disk-jet Coupling and a Sharp Transition into Quiescence McKean, J.P., Godfrey, L.E.H.,Vegetti, S., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 463, 3143 LOFAR imaging of Cygnus A - direct detection of a turnover in the hotspot radio spectra Russell, T.D., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Sivakoff, G.R. et al. 2016, MNRAS, 460, 3720 The reproducible radio outbursts of SS Cygni" Dibi, S., Markoff, S., Belmont, R., Malzac, J., Neilsen, J. & Witzel, G., 2016, MNRAS, 461, 552 Using infrared/X-ray flare statistics to probe the emission regions near the event horizon of Sgr A* Crumley, P., Lu, W., Santana, R., Hernández, R., Kumar, P. & Markoff, S. 2016, MNRAS, 460, 396 Swift J1644+57: an Ideal Test Bed of Radiation Mechanisms in a Relativistic Super-Eddington Jet Broderick, J. W., Fender, R.P., Breton, R.P., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 459, 2681 Low-radio-frequency eclipses of the redback pulsar J2215+5135 observed in the image plane with LOFAR Bilous, A., Kondratiev, V.I., Kramer, M., et al. 2016, A&A, 591, 134 A LOFAR census of non-recycled pulsars: average profiles, dispersion measures, flux densities, and spectra Buitink, S., Corstanje, A., Falcke, H., et al. 2016, Nature, 531, 70 A large light-mass component of cosmic rays at 1017–1017.5 electronvolts from radio observations Prieto, M.A., Fernández-Ontiveros, J.A., Markoff, S., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 457, 3801 The central parsec of M87: the nature of its core emission and the lack of ADAF emission Stewart, A.J., Fender, R.P., Broderick, J.W. et al. 2016, MNRAS, 456, 2321 LOFAR MSSS: detection of a low-frequency radio transient in 400 h of monitoring of the North Celestial Pole Girard, J., Zarka, P., Tasse, C., et al. 2016, A&A, 587, 3 Imaging Jupiter's radiation belts down to 127 MHz with LOFAR Pilia, M., Hessels, J.W.T., Stappers, B.W., et al. 2016, A&A, 586, 92 Wide-band, low-frequency pulse profiles of 100 radio pulsars with LOFAR Kondratiev, V. I., Verbiest, J.P.W., Hessels, J.W.T., et al. 2016, A&A, 585, 128 A LOFAR census of millisecond pulsars Plotkin, R., Gallo, E., Jonker, P., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 456, 2707 A Clean Sightline to Quiescence: Multiwavelength Observations of the High Galactic Latitude Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1357.2-0933 Marcote, B., Ribó, M., Parades, J.M., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 456, 1791 Orbital and superorbital variability of LS I +61 303 at low radio frequencies with GMRT and LOFAR Orrù, E., van Velzen, S., Pizzo, R.F., et al. 2015, A&A, 584, 112 Wide-field LOFAR imaging of the field around the double-double radio galaxy B1834+620. A fresh view on a restarted AGN and doubeltjes Rodriguez, J., Cadolle Bel, M., Alfonso-Garzón, et al. 2015, A&A Lett., 581, L9 Correlated Optical, X-ray, and γ-ray flaring activity seen with INTEGRAL during the V404 Cygni 2015 outburst Markoff, S., Nowak, M., Gallo, E., Hynes, R., Wilms, J., Plotkin, R. et al., 2015, ApJL, 812, L25 As above, so below: Exploiting mass scaling in black hole accretion to break degeneracies in spectral interpretation Koljonen, K.I.I., Russell, D.M, Fernandez Ontiveros, J.A., Markoff, S., et al. 2015, ApJ, 814, 139 A Connection between Plasma Conditions near Black Hole Event Horizons and Outflow Properties Heald, G.H., Pizzo, R.F., Orrú, E., et al. 2015, A&A, 582, 123 The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS). I. Survey description and first results Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Bower, G.C., Dexter, J., Markoff, S., Gurwell, M., Rao, R. & McHardy, I 2015, ApJL, 811, L6 A Black Hole Mass-Variability Time Scale Correlation at Submillimeter Wavelengths Rodriguez, J., Cadolle Bel, M.,Alfonso-Garzón, J., et al. 2015, A&A, 581, 9 Correlated optical, X-ray, and γ-ray flaring activity seen with INTEGRAL during the 2015 outburst of V404 Cygni Curran, P., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Rushton, A.P., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 3975 Radio polarimetry as a probe of unresolved jets: the 2013 outburst of XTE J1908+094 Sobey, C., Young, N.J., Hessels, J.W.T., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 2493 LOFAR discovery of a quiet emission mode in PSR B0823+26 Dieckmann, M., Sarri, G., Markoff, S., Borghesi, M. and Zepf, M. 2015, A&A, 577, 137 PIC simulation study of the interaction between a relativistically moving leptonic micro-cloud and ambient electrons Vedantham, H.K., Koopmans, L.V., de Bruyn, A.G., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 2291 Lunar occultation of the diffuse radio sky: LOFAR measurements between 35 and 80 MHz Tetarenko, A., Sivakoff, G., Miller-Jones, J. et al. 2015, ApJ, 805,30 Sub-mm jet properties of the X-ray binary SWIFT J1745-26 Russell, T.D., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Curran, P.A. et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 1745 Radio monitoring of the hard state jets in the 2011 outburst of MAXI J1836−194 Noutsos, A., Sobey, C., Kondratiev, V., et al. 2015, A&A, 576, 62 Pulsar polarisation below 200 MHz: Average profiles and propagation effects Brinkerink, C., Falcke, H., Law, C., et al. 2015, A&A, 576, 41 ALMA and VLA measurements of frequency-dependent time lags in Sagittarius A*: evidence for a relativistic outflow Bower, G.C., Markoff, S., Dexter, J.. et al. 2015, ApJL, 802, 69 Radio and Millimeter Monitoring of Sgr A*: Constraints on the G2 Encounter and the Spectrum and Variability of Sgr A* Neilsen, J., Markoff, S., Nowak, M., Dexter, J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 199 The X-ray Flux Distribution of Sgr A* as seen by Chandra Garsden, H., Girard, J.N., Starck, J.L., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, 90 LOFAR sparse image reconstruction Plotkin, R., Gallo, E., Markoff, S., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 4098 Constraints on relativistic jets in quiescent black hole X-ray binaries from broad-band spectral modelling Sell, P., Heinz, S., Richards, E. et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 3579 Shell-shocked: The interstellar medium near Cygnus X-1 Moldón, J., Deller, A.T., Wucknitz, O., et al. 2015, A&A, 574, 73 The LOFAR long baseline snapshot calibrator survey Morosan, D.E., Gallagher, P.T, Zucca, P. et al. 2014, A&A, 568, 67 LOFAR tied-array imaging of Type III solar radio bursts Gallo, E., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Russell, D.M., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 455, 290 The radio/X-ray domain of black hole X-ray binaries at the lowest radio luminosities Dibi, S., Markoff, S., Belmont, R & Malzac, J.. 2014, MNRAS, 441, 1005 Exploring plasma evolution during Sgr A* flares Bower, G.C., Markoff, S., Brunthaler, A. et al. 2014, ApJ, 790, 1 The Intrinsic Two-Dimensional Structure of Sagittarius A* Oonk, J., van Weeren, R., Salgado, E., et al. 2014, A&A, 560, 98 Detecting cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope Russell, T.D., Soria, R., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Curran, P., Markoff, S., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 439, 1390 The accretion-ejection coupling in the black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1836−194 Curran, P., Coriat, M., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 437, 3265 The evolving polarised jet of black hole candidate Swift J1745-26 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Walg, S., Achterberg, A., Markoff, S., Keppens, R. & Porth, O. 2014, MNRAS, 439, 3969 Relativistic AGN jets II. Jet properties and mixing effects for episodic jet activity Dexter, J., McKinney, J.C., Markoff, S. & Tchekhovskoy, A. 2014, MNRAS, 440, L2185 Transient jet formation and state transitions from large-scale magnetic reconnection in black hole accretion disks Polko, P., Meier, D.L. & Markoff, S. 2014, MNRAS, 438, 959 Linking accretion flow and particle acceleration in jets.II. Self-similar jet models with full relativistic MHD inertia Falcke, H. & Markoff, S. 2013, Class. Quant. Grav., 30, 244003 The supermassive black hole in the Galactic Center: an ideal testbed for accretion and strong gravity Neilsen, J., Nowak, M.A., Gammie, C., Dexter, J., Markoff, S., et al. 2013, ApJ, 774, 42 A Chandra/HETGS census of X-ray variability from Sgr A* during 2012 Schellart, P., Nelles, A., Buitink, S., et al. 2013, A&A, 560, 98 Detecting cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope Wang, Q.D., Nowak, M.A., Markoff, S., et al. 2013, Science, 341, 981 Dissecting X-ray emitting gas around the center of our Galaxy van Haarlem, M.P., Wise, M.W., Gunst, A.W. et al. (LOFAR collab.) 2013, A&A, 556, 2 LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray Walg, S., Achterberg, A., Markoff, S., Keppens, R. & Meliani, Z. 2013, MNRAS, 433, 1453 Relativistic AGN jets I. The delicate interplay between jet structure, cocoon morphology and jet head propagation Drappeau, S., Dibi, S., Dexter, J., Markoff, S. & Fragile, P.C. 2013, MNRAS, 431, 2872 Self-consistent spectra from GRMHD simulations with radiative cooling: A link to reality for Sgr A* Grinberg, V., et al., 2013, A&A, 554, 88 Long term variability of Cygnus X-1 V. State definitions with all sky monitors Sotomayer-Beltran, C. et al. (LOFAR) 2013, A&A, 552, 58 Long term variability of Cygnus X-1 V. State definitions with all sky monitors Russell, D. M., et al., 2013, ApJL, 768, 35 An evolving compact jet in the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1836–194 Corbel, S., et al., 2013, MNRAS, 431, L107 Formation of the compact jets in the black hole GX 339−4 Acharya, B.S. et al. (CTA collaboration) 2013, APh, 43, 3 Introducing the CTA concept Inoue, S. et al. (CTA GRBs WG) 2013, APh, 43, 2521 Gamma-Ray Burst Science in the Era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Parades, J.M. et al. (CTA Binaries WG) 2013, APh, 43, 301 Binaries with the eyes of CTA Askegar, A. et al. (LOFAR) 2013, A&A, in press LOFAR detections of low-frequency radio recombination lines towards Cassiopeia A Hermsen, W. et al. (LOFAR) 2013, Science, 339, 436 Synchronous X-ray and Radio Mode Switches: A Rapid Global Transformation of the Pulsar Magnetosphere Russell, D.M., Markoff, S., Casella, P.G., et al. 2013, MNRAS, 429, 815 Jet spectral breaks in black hole X-ray binaries Middleton, M., Miller-Jones, J., Markoff, S., et al. 2013, Nature, 493, 187 Compact jet emission reveals the presence of a stellar-mass black hole in the closest ultraluminous X- ray source Polko, P., Meier, D.L. & Markoff, S. 2013, MNRAS, 428, 587 Linking accretion flow and particle acceleration in jets: new relativistic magnetohydrodynamical jet solutions including gravity Nowak, M.A., Neilsen, J., Markoff, S., et al. 2012, ApJ, 759, 95 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Chandra-HETG Observations of the Brightest Flare seen from Sgr A∗ Dibi, S., Drappeau, S., Fragile, P.C., Markoff, S. & J. Dexter 2012, MNRAS, 426, 1928 General relativistic MHD simulations of accretion around Sgr A*: How important are radiative losses? Jonker, P., Miller-Jones, J., Homan, J. et al. 2012, MNRAS, 423, 3308 The black hole candidate MAXI J1659-152 in and towards quiescence in X-ray and radio Ratti, E., Jonker, P., Miller-Jones, J., Torres, M.A.P., Homan, J., Markoff, S., et al. 2012, MNRAS, 423, 2656 The black hole candidate XTE J1752-223 towards and in quiescence: optical and simultaneous X- ray-radio observations Hassall,T., Stappers, B., Hessels, J. et al. (LOFAR) 2012, A&A, 543, 66 Wide-band simultaneous observations of pulsars: disentangling dispersion measure and profile variations Pe’er, A. & Markoff, S., 2012, ApJ, 753, 177 X-ray Emission from Transient Jet Model in Black Hole Binaries Gültekin, K., Cacket, E.M., Miller, J.M., di Matteo, T, Markoff, S., Richstone, D., 2012, ApJ, 749, 129 A Chandra survey of supermassive black holes with dynamical mass measurements Zubovas, K., Nayakshin, S. & Markoff, S. 2012, MNRAS, 421, 1315 Sgr A* flares: tidal disruption of asteroids and planets? Plotkin, R.M., Anderson, S., Brandt, W. N., Markoff, S., Shemmer, O. & Wu, J. 2012, ApJL, 745, 27 The Lack of Obscuring Tori in BL Lacertae Objects: an Infrared View of Unification with WISE Plotkin, R.M., Markoff, S., Kelly, B. & Körding, E. 2012, MNRAS, 419, 267 Using the Fundamental Plane of black hole activity to distinguish X-ray processes from weakly accreting black holes Miller-Jones, J. et al. 2012, MNRAS, 421,468 Disc-jet coupling in the 2009 outburst of the black hole candidate H1743-322 Russell, D., et al. 2011, MNRAS, 419, 1740 A late jet rebrightening revealed from multi-wavelength monitoring of the black hole candidate XTE J1752-223 Froning, C.S. et al. 2011, ApJ, 743, 26 Multiwavelength Observations of A0620-00 in Quiescence Actis, M. et al. (CTA collaboration) 2011, Exper. Astron., 32, 193 Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy Gandhi, P. et al. 2011, ApJL, 740, 13 A variable mid-infrared synchrotron break associated with the compact jet in GX 339–4 Böck, M., Grinberg, V., Pottschmidt, K., Hanke, M., Nowak, M.A., Markoff, S. et al., 2011, A&A, 533, 8 A spectro-timing analysis of Cyg X-1 during a state transition Stappers, B. et al. (LOFAR), 2011, A&A, 530, 80 Observing pulsars and fast transients with LOFAR Maitra, D., Miller, J.M., Markoff, S. & King, A.L. 2011, ApJ, 735, 107 A jet model for the broadband spectrum of the Seyfert-1 galaxy NGC 4051 King, A.L., Miller, J.M., Cackett, E.M., Fabian, A.C., Markoff, S., et al. 2011, ApJ, 729, 19 A Distinctive Disk-Jet Coupling in the Seyfert-1 Active Galactic Nucleus NGC 4051 Plotkin, R.M., Markoff, S., Trager, S.C. & Anderson, S.F. 2011, MNRAS, 413, 805 Dynamical black hole masses of BL Lac objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Nowak, M., Hanke, M., Trouwbridge, S., Markoff, S., et al. 2011, ApJ, 728, 13 Corona, jet and relativistic line models for Suzaku/RXTE/Chandra-HETG observations of the Cygnus X-1 hard state Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Polko, P., Meier, D.L. & Markoff, S. 2010, ApJ, 723, 1343 Determining the optimal locations for shock acceleration in magnetohydrodynamical jets Miller, J.M., Nowak, M., Markoff, S., Rupen, M.P. & Maitra, D. 2010, ApJ, 720, 1033 Exploring accretion and disk-jet connections in the LLAGN M81* Miller-Jones, J.C., et al. 2010, ApJL, 716, 109 Evolution of the radio-X-ray coupling throughout an entire outburst of Aquila X-1 van Oers, P. , Markoff, S., Maitra, D., et al. 2010, MNRAS, 409, 763 High luminosity jets: can the GRS 1915+105 plateau state be compared to the canonical hard state? Russell, D., Maitra, D., Dunn R. & Markoff, S. 2010, MNRAS, 405, 1759 Evidence for a compact jet dominating the broadband spectrum of the black hole accretor XTE J1550–564 Markoff, S. 2010, PNAS, 107, 7196 Revelations in our own backyard: Chandra’s unique Galactic center discoveries Jonker, P. G., Miller-Jones, J., Homan, J., et al. 2010, MNRAS, 401, 1255 Following the 2008 outburst decay of the black hole candidate H 1743-322 in X-ray and radio Gültekin, K., Cackett, E.M., Miller, J.M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 706, 404 The Fundamental Plane of Accretion onto Black Holes with Dynamical Masses Maitra, D. , Markoff, S. & Falcke, H. 2009, A&A, 508, L13 A time-dependent jet model for the emission from Sgr A* Maitra, D. , Markoff, S., Brocksopp, C., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 398, 1638 Constraining Jet/Disk Geometry and Radiative Processes in Stellar Black Holes XTE J1118+480 and GX 339-4 Reynolds, C., Nowak, M., Markoff, S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 1159 Probing the Accretion Disk and Central Engine Structure of NGC 4258 with Suzaku and XMM- Newton Observations Falcke, H., Markoff, S. & Bower, G. 2009, A&A, 496, 77 Jet-lag in Sgr A*: What size and timing measurements tell us about the central black hole in the Milky Way Castro-Tirado, A., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Gorosabel, J., et al. 2008, Nature, 455, 506 Flares from a candidate Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars Markoff, S., Nowak, M., Young, A., et al. 2008, ApJ, 681, 905 Results from an extensive broadband simultaneous campaign on the underluminous active nucleus M81* Eckart, A., Baganoff, F., Zamaninasab, M., et al. 2008, A&A, 479, 625 Polarized NIR and X-ray flares from Sagittarius A* Eckart, A., Schödel, R., García-Marín, M., et al. 2008, A&A, 492, 337 Simultaneous NIR/sub-mm observation of flare emission from Sagittarius A* Tomsick, J., Kalemci, E., Kaaret, P. , Markoff, S. et al. 2008, ApJ, 680, 593 Broadband X-ray spectra of GX339-4 and the geometry of accreting black holes in the hard state Migliari, S., Tomsick, J., Markoff, S., et al. 2007, ApJ, 670, 610 Tracing the Jet Contribution to the Mid-IR over the 2005 Outburst of GRO J1655-40 via Broadband Spectral Modeling Gallo, E., Migliari, S., Markoff, S., et al. 2007, ApJ, 670, 600 The Spectral Energy Distribution of Quiescent Black Hole X-Ray Binaries: New Constraints from Spitzer Markoff, S., Bower, G. & Falcke, H.. 2007, MNRAS, 379, 1519 How to hide large-scale outflows: size constraints on the jets of Sgr A* Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Young, A., Nowak, M., Markoff, S., Marshall, H., Canizares, C. 2007, ApJ, 669, 830 High resolution X-ray spectroscopy of a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus: the structure and dynamics of M81* Wilms, J., Pottschmidt, K., Pooley, G., Markoff, S., et al. 2007, ApJL, 663, 97 Correlated radio-X-ray variability of Galactic Black Holes: A radio-X-ray flare in Cyg X-1 Schödel, R., Krips, M., Markoff, S. et al. 2007, A&A The millimetre variability of M81* -- Multi-epoch duel frequency mm-observations of the nucleus of M81 Merloni, A., Körding, E., Heinz, S., Markoff, S., et al. 2006, New Astronomy, 11, 567 Why the fundamental plane of black hole activity is not simply a distance driven artifact Markoff, S. Nowak, M. A., Wilms, J. 2005, ApJ, 635, 1203 Going with the Flow: Can the Base of Jets Subsume the Role of Compact Accretion Disk Coronae? Markoff, S. 2005, Ap&SS, 300, 189 Exploring the Jet/Accretion Flow Relationship in Low Disk Luminosity Sources Homan, J., Buxton, M., Markoff, S., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 295 Multiwavelength Observations of the 2002 Outburst of GX 339-4: Two Patterns of X-ray-Optical/ Near-Infrared Behavior Markoff, S. 2005, ApJL, 618, 103 Sagittarius A* in Context: Daily Flares as a Probe of the Fundamental X-ray Emission Process in Accreting Black Holes Gleissner, T., Wilms, J., Pooley, G. G., Nowak, M. A., Pottschmidt, K., Markoff, S., et al. 2004, A&A, 425, 1061 Long term variability of Cygnus X-1. III. Radio-X-ray correlations Markoff, S. and Nowak, M. A. 2004, ApJ, 609, 972 Constraining X-ray Binary Jet Models via Reflection Filho, M. E., Fraternali, F., Markoff, S., et al. 2004, A&A, 418, 429 Further clues to the nature of composite LINER/H II galaxies Falcke, H., Körding, E., Markoff, S. 2004, A&A, 414, 895 A scheme to unify low-power accreting black holes. jet-dominated accretion flows and the radio/X- ray correlation Fabbiano, G., Elvis, M., Markoff, S., et al. 2003, ApJ, 588, 175 The X-ray-faint Emission of the Supermassive Nuclear Black Hole of IC 1459 Corbel, S., Nowak, M.A., Fender, R.P., Tzioumis, A.K., Markoff, S. 2003, A&A, 400, 1007 Radio/X-ray Correlations in the low/hard state of GX 339-4 Markoff, S., Nowak, M., Corbel, S., et al. 2003, A&A, 397, 645 Exploring the role of jets in the radio/X-ray correlations of GX 339-4 Yuan, F., Markoff, S., Falcke, H., Biermann, P. L. 2003, New Astronomy Reviews, 47, 705 Jet-Disk coupling models for low-luminosity AGN Markoff, S., Nowak, M.A., Corbel, S., Fender, R., Falcke H. 2003, New Astr. Rev., 47, 491 Modeling the X-ray contribution of XRB jets Yuan, F., Markoff, S., Falcke, H., Biermann, P.L. 2002, A&A, 391, 139 NGC 4258: A jet-dominated low-luminosity AGN? Yuan, F., Markoff, S., Falcke, H. 2002, A&A, 383, 854 A Jet-ADAF model for Sgr A* Körding, E., Falcke, H., Markoff, S. 2002, A&AL, 382, 13 Population X: Are the super-Eddington X-ray sources beamed jets in microblazars or intermediate mass black holes? Markoff, S., Falcke, H., Yuan, F., Biermann, P.L., 2001, A&AL, 379, 13 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

The Nature of the 10 kilosecond X-ray flare in Sgr A* Markoff, S., Falcke, H., Fender, R. 2001, A&AL, 372, 25 A jet model for the broadband spectrum of XTE J1118+480. Synchrotron emission from radio to X- rays in the Low/Hard spectral state Markoff, S., Falcke, H., Fender, R. 2001, Ap&SSs, 276, 289 Jets in XRB Low/Hard states: models of XTE J1118+480 suggest a strong signature from radio through X-ray Falcke, H., Markoff, S. 2000, A&A, 362, 113 The jet model for Sgr A*: Radio and X-ray spectrum Markoff, S., Melia, F., Sarcevic, I., 1999, ApJ, 522, 870 High-Energy Emission from Relativistic Particles in Sagittarius A* Melia, F., Fatuzzo, M., Yusef-Zadeh, F., Markoff, S. 1998, ApJL, 508, L65 A Self-Consistent Model for the Broadband Spectrum of Sagitarrius A East at the Galactic Center Markoff, S., Melia, F., Sarcevic, I. 1997, ApJL, 489, 47 On the Nature of the EGRET Source at the Galactic Center McDowell, J. C., Canizares, C. R., Elvis, M., Lawrence, A., Markoff, S., et al. 1995, ApJ, 450, 585 The Unusual Quasar PG 1407+265 Canizares, C. R., Markert, T. H., Markoff, S., Hughes, J.P. 1993, ApJL, 405, 17 The insignificance of ‘heating flows’ in ‘cooling flow’ clusters of galaxies

BOOKS

Chapter “Synergies“ (Markoff, S., Hinton, J.A., Ong, R.A. & Torres, D.) in Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, (online book, arXiv:1709.07997) by the Cherenkov Telescope Ar- ray collaboration.

Chapter “Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei and Microquasars“ (Romero, G., Bött- cher, M., Markoff, S. & Tavecchio, F.) in Jets and Winds in Pulsar Wind Nebulae, Gamma-ray Bursts and Blazars: Physics of Extreme Energy Release, Ed. A. Bykov, et al., 2017 (Springer Ver- lag: Heidelberg), p. 1-57, also in press via Space Science Reviews.

Chapter “ From Multiwavelength to Mass Scaling: Accretion and Ejection in Microquasars and AGN“ in The Jet Paradigm: From Microquasars to Quasars, Lecture Notes in Physics vol. 794, Ed. T. Belloni, 2010 (Springer Verlag: Heidelberg), p. 143

Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop, 2002: The Central 300 Parsecs of the Milky Way. Astronomische Nachrichten Supplementary Issue 1/2003, Editors: A. Cotera, S. Markoff, T.R. Geballe, H.Falcke

ACADEMIC SERVICE (INTERNATIONAL) ‣ International Conference Organisation (Scientific Organising Committees) ‣ “New Horizons in Galactic Center Astronomy and Beyond”, Yokohama, Oct 2019 ‣ Chair: “Advances in Theoretical Astrophysics” international school, Amsterdam, July 2019 ‣ “Cosmic Explosions” international school, Cargese, FR, May/June 2019 ‣ Multi=Messenger Astrophysics Symposium), Groningen, March 2019 ‣ “The Central Arcsecond of the Galaxy”, Ringberg Castle, Oct. 2018 ‣ Co-Chair: Open Problems in Theoretical Astrophysics, NBI, Copenhagen, July 2018 ‣ Time-Domain Astronomy: A High-Energy View, ESAC, Spain, June 2018 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

‣ Texas Relativistic Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Cape Town, South Africa, Dec 2017 ‣ Microquasars 2017, Porquerolles Island, FR, Sep. 2017 ‣ Co-Chair: IAU Symposium 322, “The Multi-Messenger Astrophysics of the Galactic Centre”, Port Douglas, Australia, July 2016 ‣ “Meierfest”: Astrophysical Jets on All Scales, Caltech, March 2015 ‣ Event Horizon Telescope 2014, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, Nov. 2014 ‣ 40th Cospar Scientific Assembly: “New broadband perspectives on the Galactic cen- ter black hole and its environment”, Moscow, Aug. 2014 ‣ Chair: IAU pre-meeting workshop on Sgr A* Chandra XVP campaign results, Santa Fe, NM, Sept/Oct 2013 ‣ Co-Chair: IAU Symposium 303: “The galactic center: Feeding and feedback in a normal galactic nucleus”, Santa Fe, NM, Sept/Oct 2013 ‣ Brindisi Workshop: “Black Hole (g)Astronomy: exploring the different flavors of ac- cretion”, Brindisi, , Sept 2013 ‣ Chair: “A new view of accretion onto our Galactic Center”, Lorentz Center work- shop, January 2013 ‣ “LINK Meeting for the Science of CTA with cosmic-ray physics”, Buenos Aires, Ar- gentina, November 2012 ‣ “Black Hole Feedback 2012”, Dartmouth, NH, July/August 2012 ‣ “Black Holes on the Black Sea”, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2012 ‣ “Black Hole Universe 2012”, Co-chair, Bamberg, Germany, June 2012 ‣ Co-Chair: CTA Collaboration meeting, Amsterdam, May 2012 ‣ Event Horizon Telescope Inaugural Workshop, Tucson, AZ, January 2012 ‣ “Black Hole Astrophysics: Tales of Power and Destruction”, Winchester, UK, July 2011 ‣ “High Energy Universe” XMM conference, Berlin, June/July 2011 ‣ Chair: “Cosmic Ray Interactions” workshop, Lorentz Center, Leiden, March 2011 ‣ “Jets on All Scales”, IAU Symposium 275, Buenos Aires, Sept. 2010 ‣ 2010 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly session “Accretion on Compact Objects and Fast Phenomena in the Multiwavelength Era”, Bremen, Germany, July 2010 ‣ Chair: “2nd Summer School on Multiwavelength Astronomy”, Amsterdam, June/July 2010 ‣ “The Galactic Center: A Window to the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2009 ‣ “1st Summer School on Multiwavelength Astronomy”, Paris, July 2009 ‣ “LOFAR and the Transient Radio Sky”, Amsterdam, Dec. 2008 ‣ “7th Microquasar Workshop”, Turkey, Sept. 2008 ‣ “The Universe Under the Microscope: Astrophysics at High Angular Resolution”, Bad Honnef Physics Center, Germany, April 2008 ‣ “A Population Explosion: The Nature and Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Diverse En- vironments”, FL, USA, Oct./Nov. 2007 ‣ “Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: Wide-Field Monitoring of the Dynamic Radio Sky”, Greece, June, 2007 ‣ “From the Center of the Milky Way to Nearby Low-Luminosity Galaxies”, Bad Hon- nef Physics Center, Germany, April, 2006 ‣ “The Paradoxes of Massive Black Holes: A Case Study in the Milky Way”, Kavli Insti- tute for Theoretical Physics, CA, USA, April, 2005 ‣ “Galactic Center Workshop: The Central 100 Parsecs” (co-chair), HI, USA, August, 2002 ‣ Since August 2016: Member of the Event Horizon Telescope Science Council Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

‣ 2016-2018: Science Coordinator of Multiwavelength Working Group for CTA ‣ Since August 2015: Elected member of the steering committee for the IAU (Internatio- nal Astronomical Union) Commission X1: Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback, Galaxy Evolution ‣ 2015-2018: Editor of Astroparticle Physics Journal (Elsevier) ‣ Since 2015: Member of the Chrétien International Research Grant selection committee for the American Astronomical Society ‣ Since 2014: Member of the Athena+ mission Science Working Group SWG 2.4: The close environments of SMBHs ‣ Since 2014: Member of the LOFT mission Observatory Science Working group on Ac- cretion/Ejection and jets ‣ Since 2010: Member Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium Board (PHYSics working group) ‣ Served on selection panel for the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows program ‣ Served on selection panel for the NASA Einstein Fellowship Program ‣ Served on Time Allocation Committee for NASA’s Chandra Observatory, 2006, 2008, 2011 (Deputy Panel Chair), 2016 (Panel Chair) ‣ Served on the review panels for the NSF (National Science Foundation) CAREER grant program ‣ Referee for Science, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astroparticle Physics Journal, plus several internati- onal funding agencies (USA, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Poland) ‣ Several years of science outreach in urban Boston classrooms, via Project Astro ‣ (2000-2010): Co-editor of Galactic Center Newsletter (http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~gcnews/ index.shtml) ‣ 2018: External member of habilitation committee, Dr. Zakaria Meliani, Paris Observato- ry ‣ 2015: External member of PhD committee, Benito Marcote, University of Barcelona ‣ 2015: External member of PhD committee, Dr. Patrick Crumley, UT Austin

ACADEMIC SERVICE (NL)

‣ Since 2018: Member of the Astronomy Advisory Panel for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) ‣ Since 2017: Member of PhD supervision oversight committee, API, UvA ‣ Since 2016: Member ‘Associate Professor Sounding Board’ for LNVH ‣ Since 2016: Member Stichting Beta Plus (for naming Spccial Professors at UvA/FNWI) ‣ 2016: Member committee to draft “FNWI Visie Onderwijs & Onderzoek” ‣ 2016: SOC/LOC Dutch Astronomy Conference ‣ 2013-2014: Member of Exploratory Committee on Education for UvA/VU ‣ Since 2012, member of Management Team, API, University of Amsterdam ‣ 2012: Founding member of GRAPPA Institute, UvA ‣ 2011-2014 (incl.), Director of the Master Program in A&A, University of Amsterdam ‣ 2011-2014 (incl.), Member of the Board of Studies of Graduate School of Exact ‣ 2011-2017: Member of Lorentz Center Astronomy Steering Committee, Chair 2014-2017 ‣ 2011-2015: Member of NNV subatomic physics steering committee ‣ 2011-2012: Member of hiring committee (2x) for GRAPPA Institute, UvA, ‣ 2010- : Member of the Dutch Astroparticle Physics Committee (CAN) ‣ 2010-2011: Member of MacGillavry Program hiring committee, UvA ‣ 2010-2011: Member of PhD advisory committee (“inquisitie”), API Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

‣ 2009-2010: Member of hiring committee for Radboud University, Physics, Nijmegen ‣ 2009-2010: Member of WSRT/LOFAR PC (ASTRON) ‣ 2009-2010: Member of NWO VC selection committee ‣ 2007-2010: Co-founder and member of executive board of WiF (Women in the FNWI) network of female science staff at the UvA ‣ 2006-2009: API Colloquium organizer ‣ 2006-2016: Member of LOFAR Transients Key Project, co-PI of the Jets Scientific Wor- king Group ‣ Introduced interactive learning techniques to curriculum (voting machine), now used in many courses at the FNWI ‣ Developed two new courses: Introduction to and HEA: Radiative Processes and Relativistic Flows ‣ Developed and taught two short term courses for NIKHEF topical lectures in astropar- ticle physics and the Fall NOVA school (Fall 2006) ‣ Organized “mini-MHD” meeting, June 2008, UvA (NOVA funded) ‣ Organizing committee of 2009 Nijmegen Summer School on Astroparticle Physics (http://nijmegen09.hef.kun.nl) ‣ Regular participant in University Open Days ‣ Annual seminar “How to apply for stuff” attended by ~30-40 PhDs and Postdocs from around the NL, as of 2013 developed into two day Career Day event for A&A and Phy- sics

INVITED TALKS AND COLLOQUIA (SINCE 2006)

2/2019 — Astrophysics Seminar, University of Marseilles 10/2018 — Joint Astrophysics Colloquium (INAF OAS/IRA), Bologna, IT 10/2018 — Colloquium Leuven University “Gravitational Wave Center” 10/2018 — Astrophysics Seminar, ESTEC 9/2018 — 2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics Symposium, Oslo, Norway 1/2018 — Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Leicester, UK 9/2017 — La Gomera Accretion Week 2017, La Gomera, Spain 7/2017 — International School on Astroparticle Physics (ISAPP) graduate school "The Dark and the Visible Side of the Universe”, Texel, NL 6/2017 — Two talks @ EWASS 2017: Special Sessions “S15: Scientific Synergies enabled by the SKA, CTA and Athena” and “S4: Astrophysical Jets and Outflows - Synergies from compact objects to protostars”, Prague, CZ 6/2017 — Polarised Emission from Astrophysical Jets, Ierapetra, Greece 3/2017 — Theory Seminar, University of Texas, Austin, US 1/2017 — Wide Band Spectral and Timing Studies of Cosmic X-ray Sources, TIFR- Mumbai, India 11-12/2016 — Event Horizon Telescope 2016, Boston, MA 9/2016 — ESO-ATHENA Synergy Team (EAST) Workshop, ESO, Garching, DE 9/2016 — V404 Cyg Workshop in honour of Phil Charles, Oxford, UK 9/2016 — Colloquium, SRON, NL 7/2016 — Colloquium, ICRAR, Perth, Australia 5-6/2016 — International School on Astrophysical Jets, Cargese, FR Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

3/2016 — Colloquium, North-West University, Potchefstroom, SA 3/2016 — Colloquium, University of Capetown, SA 11/2015 — The Physics of Extreme Energy Release, ISSI, Bern, Switzerland 10/2015 — Colloquium, DIAS, Dublin, Ireland 10/2015 — Colloquium, Physics Department, University of Barcelona 7/2015 — Paving the Way to Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength Astronomy, Leiden, NL 7/2015 — Cherenkov Telescope Array Workshop, INAF Brera, Milan, IT 6/2015 — EWASS 2015, Special Session “Low Accretion Physics in the Universe”, La Laguna, Spain 5/2015 — Colloquium, IoA, Cambridge, UK 3/2015 — “Meierfest: Astrophysical Jets on All Scales”, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 3/2015 — Tinsley Professorship Colloquium, Dept. of Astronomy, UT Austin, TX 11/2014 — Event Horizon Telescope 2015, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, CA 10/2014 — Colloquium, IAP, Paris, FR 8/2014 — IAU Symposium 312: Star Clusters and Black Holes: In galaxies across cosmic time, Beijing, China 8/2014 — 40th Cospar General Assembly: Special Session “Outflows and accretion from white dwarfs to supermassive black holes”, Moscow 6/2014 — Colloquium, Dept. of Astronomy, Oskar Klein Center, University of Stockholm 4/2014 — Keynote at Division of Astrophysics focus session, “Jets and Astrophysical Tests of GR”, APS annual meeting, Savannah, GA 3/2014 — Colloquium, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Austin, TX 2/2014 — Colloquium, Ecole Normal Superior, Paris 1/2014 — Invited focus session at Veldhoven 2014: Signals from the most extreme objects in the universe 1/2014 — Invited special session at January AAS meeting: News from the Galactic Center: A Multiwavelength Update on the Sgr A*/G2 Encounter 9/2013 — Black Holes at all Scales, Ioannina, Greece 7/2013 — Teekolloquium, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany 6/2013 — The innermost regions of relativistic jets and their magnetic fields, Granada, Spain 4/2013 — Keynote at Division of Astrophysics session, “Nature’s Particle Accelerators” APS annual meeting, Denver, CO 4/2013 — HEAD meeting, invited special session: Accretion, Spin, and Feedback: How are AGN Jets Produced?, Monterrey, CA 10/2012 — Nature’s Particle Accelerators, Annapolis, MD 8/2012 — IAU Symposium 290: Feeding Compact Objects: Accretion on all Scales, Beijing, China 7/2012 — Black Hole Feedback 2012, Darmouth, NH 7/2012 — X-ray Binaries: Celebrating 50 years since the discovery of Sco X-1, Boston 5/2012 — Astrophysics Colloquium, Strassbourg Observatory, FR 4/2012 — Second Quantum Universe Symposium, Groningen, NL Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

4/2012 — British Royal Society Discussion: New windows on transients across the Universe, London, UK (withdrew due to conflict w/ERC interview) 1/2012 — Event Horizon Telescope Meeting, Tucson, AZ 10/2011 — The Emerging, Multiwavelength Picture of the Galactic Centre Environment, Heidelberg, Germany 10/2011 — The formation and evolution of intermediate mass black holes: the case of HLX-1, Toulouse, FR 7/2011 — Black Hole Astrophysics: Tales of Power and Destructions, Winchester, UK 5/2011 — Physics Colloquium, KVI, Groningen, Netherlands 3/2011 — Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Leicester, UK 3/2011 — Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Bristol, UK 2/2011 — Astrophysics Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn 9/2010 — Cosmogony of AGN: Unifying approaches for the next decade, Brindisi, Italy 7/2010 — The Physics of Black Holes and Neutron Stars, Bremen, Germany 4/2010 — DRSTP school, Driebergen, Netherlands 9/2009 — Chandra “Decade of Discovery” Conference, Boston, MA 8/2009 — NIJMEGEN09: 3rd International Astroparticle Physics Summer School, Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/2009 — Marcel Grossman Meeting, Paris, FR 5/2009 — Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Oxford, UK 5/2009 — Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Southampton, UK 4/2009 — Colloquium, WZI, University of Amsterdam 11/2008 — Cherenkov Telescope Array Workshop, Padova, Italy 7/2008 — Chandra Radio Galaxies Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 3/2008 — Physics Colloquium, University of Crete, Heraklion 6/2007 — Ringberg Galactic Center Workshop, Ringberg Castle, Germany 6/2007 — Crete workshop on microquasars, Greece 4/2007 — Physics Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam 4/2007 — Astrophysics Colloquium, Radboud University, Nijmegen 12/2006 — Astrophysics Colloquium, Kapteyn Inst. Groningen 10/2006 — General Physics Colloquium, University of Utrecht 9/2006 — 6th Microquasar Meeting, Como, Italy 8/2006 — IAU Symposium 138: Black Holes Across Mass Scale, Prague, C.R. 5/2006 — History of Nuclear Black Holes in Galaxies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 4/2006 — Astrophysics Colloquium, ASTRON 4/2006 — GC06 Workshop: Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies, Bad Honnef, Germany 3/2006 — Astrophysics Seminar, Leiden

OUTREACH (INCOMPLETE…) Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

2017-2018— Expanded pilot STEM project “Altair” focusing two Groups 7, 8, 9, two classrooms each at Islamic elementary school As-Siddieq Oost 5/2017 — Started pilot STEM project “Altair” focusing on two Group 8 (11-12 yr olds) classrooms at Islamic elementary school As-Siddieq Oost 4/2016 — Keynote talk at “New Realism: The Gaze of Science”, Imagining (and *imaging*) black holes, Spui 25, Amsterdam, NL 4-5/2016 —Led two Saturday scientific activity events for refugee children at AZC Leiden, under auspices of UNAWE program at Leiden 10/2015 — Lecture as part of secondary school teachers’ ‘Naschool’: A Brief Introduction to Gravity: How a weak force dominates the universe! 8/2015 — Talk on top of the Oude Kerk as part of art installation “The Garden Which is Nearest to God” and associated talk series “Come Closer”, Come (a bit) Closer to Infinity 5/2015 — Talk as part of “We Are Public” Amsterdam cultural events group (with voting system): A Brief Introduction to Black Holes: Exotic but Essential players in the Universe 5/2015 — Few volunteer video lectures to an interested group of Indian students about the Galactic center and accretion