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 2016- present — Member Science Council, Vice-Chair since 2019. 2017- present — Full Professor, University of Amsterdam (UvA). Supervision to date: 12 postdocs, 10 PhDs, 15 MSc students, 11 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 Event Horizon Telescope, and the next generation GeV/TeV gamma-ray facility Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

AWARDS & HONORS

2021 — Invited membership in the Royal Holland Society of and Humanities 2020 — Dutch Research Council (NWO) Diversity Prize in Exact Sciences (for ongoing projects with elementary school children from under-represented backgrounds, and their families), €50k 2020 — (Awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope): Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics ($3M), Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society, Einstein Medal of the Albert Einstein Society (Switz.) 2019 — (Awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope): Berkeley Prize of the American Astronomical Society, Diamond Achievement of the US National Science Foundation, Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award (Natural Sciences) 2019 — Willem de Graaff Prize for Public Outreach (Royal Dutch Astronomical Society) 2019 — Grassroots Diversity Award (University of Amsterdam Science Faculty) 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 ) 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 ) 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

2020 — NWO/NWA ORC, Dutch Black Hole Consortium, €5.9M (PI: P. Jonker, Markoff: CoPI and member of the Consortium Board) 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 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

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 , 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

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (SINCE 2015) As of Nov 2020 (ADS): 197 refereed publications, >13.5k citations, h=61, 28 >100 citations, (Note: underlined, bold names were directly supervised by me while working in my group)

Kantzas, D., Markoff, S., Beuchert, T., Lucchini, M., Chhotray, A., Ceccobello, C., et al. 2020, MNRAS, in press A new lepto-hadronic model applied to the first simultaneous multiwavelength data set for Cygnus X-1 Liska, M., Hesp, C., Tchekhovskoy, A., Ingram, A., van der Klis, M., Markoff, S. et al. 2020, MNRAS, in press Disc Tearing and Bardeen-Petterson Alignment in GRMHD Simulations of Highly Tilted Thin Accretion Discs Yoon, D., Chatterjee, K., Markoff, S.., van Eijnatten, D., Younsi, Z., Liska, M.; Tchekhovskoy, A. 2020, MNRAS, 499, 3178 Spectral and imaging properties of Sgr A* from high-resolution 3D GRMHD simulations with radiative cooling Chatterjee, K., Younsi, Z., Liska, M., Tchekhovskoy, A., Markoff, S. B., Yoon, D., van Eijnatten, D., Hesp, C., et al. 2020, MNRAS, 499, 362 Observational signatures of disc and jet misalignment in images of accreting black holes Russell, T.D., Lucchini, M., Tetarenko, A.J., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Sivakoff, G. R., Krauß, F., Mulaudzi, W., et al. 2020, MNRAS, 498, 5772 Rapid compact jet quenching in the Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1535-571 Wielgus, M., Akiyama, K., Blackburn, L., et al. 2020, ApJ, 901, 67 Monitoring the Morphology of M87* in 2009-2017 with the Event Horizon Telescope Walg, S., Achterberg, A., Markoff, S., Keppens, R. & Porth, O 2020, MNRAS, 497, 3638 Relativistic AGN jets - III. Synthesis of synchrotron emission from double-double radio Kim, J.-Y., Krichbaum, T.~P., Broderick, A.~E., et al. 2020, A&A, 640, A69 Event Horizon Telescope imaging of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 at an extreme 20 microarcsecond resolution Gold, R., Broderick, A.~E., Younsi, Z., et al. 2020, ApJ, 897, 148 Verification of Radiative Transfer Schemes for the EHT Markoff, S., Russell, D.M., Dexter, J., et al. 2020, MNRAS, 495, 525 Infrared interferometry to spatially and spectrally resolve jets in X-ray binaries Roelofs, F., Janssen, M., Natarajan, I., et al. 2020, A&A, 636, A5 SYMBA: An end-to-end VLBI synthetic data generation pipeline. Simulating Event Horizon Telescope observations of M 87 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Atri, P., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Bahramian, A., et al. 2020, MNRAS, 493, L81 A radio parallax to the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 Corrales, L., Baganoff, F.K., Wang, Q.D., Nowak, M., Neilsen, J., Markoff, S., et al. 2020, ApJ, 891, 71 The Chandra High-resolution X-Ray Spectrum of Quiescent Emission from Sgr A* Cooper, A.J., Gaggero, D., Markoff, S., & Zhang, S. 2020, MNRAS, 493, 3212 High-energy cosmic ray production in X-ray binary jets Chatterjee, K., Liska, M., Tchekhovskoy, A. & Markoff, S. 2019, MNRAS, 490, 2200 Accelerating AGN jets to scales using general relativistic MHD simulations Haggard, D., Nynka, M., Mon, B., et al. 2019, ApJ, 886, 96 Chandra Spectral and Timing Analysis of Sgr A*'s Brightest X-Ray Flares Paice, J.A., Gandhi, P., Shahbaz, T., et al. 2019, MNRAS, 490, L62 A black hole X-ray binary at ~100 Hz: multiwavelength timing of MAXI J1820+070 with HiPERCAM and NICER Lucchini, M., Krauss, F. & Markoff, S. 2019, MNRAS, 489, 1633 The unique case of the active galactic nucleus core of M87: a misaligned low-power blazar? Anderson, G.E., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Middleton, M.J., et al. 2019, MNRAS, 489, 1181 Discovery of a radio transient in M81 Bouffard, E., Haggard, D., Nowak, M.A., Neilsen, J., Markoff, S. & Baganoff, F.K. 2019, ApJ, 884, 148 No Sign of G2's Encounter Affecting Sgr A*'s X-Ray Flaring Rate from Chandra Observations Russell, T.~D., Tetarenko, A.J., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., et al. 2019, ApJ, 883, 198 Disk-Jet Coupling in the 2017/2018 Outburst of the Galactic Black Hole Candidate X-Ray Binary MAXI J1535-571 Gallo, E., Teague, R., Plotkin, R.~M., et al.\ 2019, \mnras, 488, 191 ALMA observations of A0620-00: fresh clues on the nature of quiescent black hole X-ray binary jets Connors, R.M.T., Garcia, J.A., Steiner, J.F., et al. 2019, ApJ, 882, 179 Conflicting Disk Inclination Estimates for the Black Hole X-Ray Binary XTE J1550-564 Porth, O., Chatterjee, K., Narayan, R., et al. 2019, ApJS, 243, 26 The Event Horizon General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Code Comparison Project Bower, G.C., Dexter, J., Asada, K., et al. 2019, ApJL,881, L2 ALMA Observations of the Terahertz Spectrum of * Crumley, P., Caprioli, D., Markoff, S. & Spitkovsky, A. 2019, MNRAS, 485, 5105. Kinetic simulations of mildly relativistic shocks - I. Particle acceleration in high Mach number shocks Connors, R., van Eijnatten, D., S. Markoff, Ceccobello, C., Grinberg, V. , Heil, L., Lucchini, M., Crumley, P. 2018, MNRAS, 485, 3696. Combining timing characteristics with physical broad-band spectral modelling of black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Tetarenko, A.J., Sivakoff, G.R., et al. 2019, Nature, 569, 374 A rapidly changing jet orientation in the stellar-mass black-hole system V404 Cygni Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al. 2019, ApJL, 875, L1-6: First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Data Processing and Calibration First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole Lucchini, M., Markoff, S., Crumley, P., Krauss, F., Connors, R. 2018, MNRAS, 482, 4798 Breaking degeneracy in jet dynamics: multi- joint modelling of the BL Lac PKS 2155-304 Boyce, H., Haggard, D., Witzel, G., Willner, S. P., Neilsen, J., Hora, J. L., Markoff, S. et al. 2019, ApJ, 871, 161 Simultaneous X-Ray and Infrared Observations of Sagittarius A*'s Variability Tetarenko, A.J., Sivakoff, G.R., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., et al. 2019, MNRAS 482, 2950 Tracking the variable jets of V404 Cygni during its 2015 outburst Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

Gültekin, K., King, A.L., Cackett, E., Nyland, K., Miller, J.M., di Matteo, T., Markoff, S. & Rupen, M. 2018, ApJ, 871, 80 The Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Accretion and its Use as a Black Hole Mass Estimator Issaoun, S., Johnson, M.~D., Blackburn, L., et al. 2019, ApJ, 871, 30 The Size, Shape, and Scattering of Sagittarius A* at 86 GHz: First VLBI with ALMA Baglio, M.~C., Russell, D.~M., Casella, P., et al. 2018, ApJ, 867, 114 A Wildly Flickering Jet in the Black Hole X-Ray Binary MAXI J1535-571 Broderick, J.~W., Fender, R.~P., Miller-Jones, J.~C.~A., et al. 2018, MNRAS, 475, 5360. LOFAR 150-MHz observations of SS 433 and W 50 Liska, M., Hesp, C., Tchekhovskoy, A., Ingram, A., van der Klis, M., and Markoff, S. 2018 MNRAS, 474, L81 Formation of precessing jets by tilted black hole discs in 3D general relativistic MHD simulations 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 Beuchert, T., Kadler, M., Perucho, M., et al. 2018, A&A, 610, A32 VLBA polarimetric monitoring of 3C 111 Lapington, J.S., Abchiche, A., Allan, D., et al. 2017, NIMPR A, 876, 1 The GCT camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. Gandhi, P., Bachetti, M., Dhillon, V.S. et al. 2017, NatAs, 1, 859 An elevation of 0.1 light- 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 Sagittarius A* 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 Coughlan, C.P., Ainsworth, R.E., Eislöffel, J., et al. 2017, ApJ, 834, 206 A LOFAR Detection of the Low-mass Young 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 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

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 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 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 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 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

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

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 Array collaboration.

Chapter “Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei and “ (Romero, G., Böttcher, 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 Verlag: 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 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) ‣ Conference 2021: Sept 2021, Sardinia IT ‣ IAU Proposed Symposium: Accretion and Outflow: From Planets to Active Galactic Nuclei, Busan, South Korea, Aug 2021 ‣ “New Horizons in Galactic Center Astronomy and Beyond”, Yokohama, Oct 2019 ‣ Chair: “Advances in Theoretical Astrophysics” international school, Amsterdam, July 2019 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

‣ “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 ‣ 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 center 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 ga- lactic nucleus”, Santa Fe, NM, Sept/Oct 2013 ‣ Brindisi Workshop: “Black Hole (g)Astronomy: exploring the different flavors of accretion”, Brindisi, , Sept 2013 ‣ Chair: “A new view of accretion onto our Galactic Center”, Lorentz Center workshop, Janua- ry 2013 ‣ “LINK Meeting for the Science of CTA with cosmic-ray physics”, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 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 Environ- ments”, 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 Honnef Physics Center, Germany, April, 2006 ‣ “The Paradoxes of Massive Black Holes: A Case Study in the Milky Way”, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, CA, USA, April, 2005 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

‣ “Galactic Center Workshop: The Central 100 Parsecs” (co-chair), HI, USA, August, 2002 ‣ Since August 2016: Member of the Event Horizon Telescope Science Council ‣ Since 2020: Vice-Chair EHT Science Council ‣ Since 2016: Co-coordinator Multiwavelength WG for EHT ‣ 2016-2018: Science Coordinator of Multiwavelength Working Group for CTA ‣ Since August 2015: Elected member of the steering committee for the IAU (International Astro- nomical 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 envi- ronments of SMBHs ‣ Since 2014: Member of the LOFT mission Observatory Science Working group on Accretion/ 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 (Depu- ty 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 international 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/in- dex.shtml) ‣ 2018: External member of habilitation committee, Dr. Zakaria Meliani, Paris Observatory ‣ 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 2019: Member of Board: National Dutch Network of Female Professors (LNVH) ‣ Since 2018: Member of the Astronomy Advisory Panel for the Netherlands Organisation for Sci- entific Research (NWO) ‣ Since 2017: Member of PhD supervision oversight committee, API, UvA ‣ Since 2016: Member Stichting Beta Plus (for naming Spccial/Adjunct 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 Sciences ‣ 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 Working 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 Relativis- tic Flows ‣ Developed and taught two short term courses for NIKHEF topical lectures in astroparticle phy- sics 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://nijme- gen09.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 Physics

INVITED TALKS AND COLLOQUIA (SINCE 2010)

8/2020 — 43rd COSPAR conference, Sydney, AUS 6/2020 — Astrophysics Colloquium, UCLA, USA 4/2020 — R. Jack and Forest Lynn Biard Cosmology and Astrophysics Lecture, CCAPP, Ohio State, OH, USA 12/2019 — 20 Years of Chandra, MA, USA 11/2019 — Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Birmingham 10/2019 — Science & Cocktails public lecture on black holes, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL 10/2019 — Helmholtz Alliance/ECAP Astroparticle Physics School, DE 9/2019 — Colloquium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MA, USA 6/2019 — Helen Sawyer Hogg Prize Lecture at the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) meeting, Montreal, CA 5/2019 — Cosmic Explosions School 2019, Cargese, FR 4/2019 — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Symposium on Event Horizon Telescope results 4/2019 — Event Horizon Telescope announcement, US/NSF Press Conference, National Press Club Washington, D.C., USA 3/2019 — Panel on Event Horizon Telescope @ SXSW Interactive Festival, TX, USA 2/2019 — Astrophysics Seminar, Trinity University, TX, USA 2/2019 — Astrophysics Seminar, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, FR 10-11/2018 — The Central Arcsecond: Towards Testing General Relativity in the Galactic Center, Ringberg Castle, DE 10/2018 — Joint Astrophysics Colloquium (INAF OAS/IRA), Bologna, IT 10/2018 — Colloquium Leuven University “Gravitational Wave Center” 10/2018 — Astrophysics Seminar, ESTEC Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

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 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 Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

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 — Quantum Universe Symposium, Groningen, NL 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 , Bremen, Germany 4/2010 — DRSTP school, Driebergen, Netherlands

OUTREACH & PRESS (INCOMPLETE…)

2017-2020— Expanded pilot STEM project “” focusing two Groups 7, 8, 9, two classrooms each at Islamic elementary school As-Siddieq Oost 4/2019 — Royal Dutch Academy (KNAW) Public Event: “Imaging Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope “ 4/2019 — National Science Foundation Press Conference for the first image of a black hole, representing the EHT Collaboration 5/2017 — Started pilot STEM project “Altair” focusing on two Group 8 (11-12 yr olds) classrooms at Islamic elementary school As-Siddieq Oost Curriculum Vitae Sera Markoff

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