When you gaze into the night sky on a clear night, it is enchanting, immense, and awe-inspiring – the universe outside, but right inside you, there is also an enchanting, immense, and awe-inspiring universe of your soul – let your light shine! (Maria Stone, aka your Astronomer from Helsinki, short video here)

Goals:

  • My aspiration in astronomy is to make a ground-breaking discovery, which is largely a gift from God to pierce into the mystery of Universe and does not depend on anything else, but I can take reasonable steps to be ready.
  • I hope to contribute meaningfully to the community.
  • Financially, my goal is to have 2000$/month (estimate).
  • I aim to be there for my family and not let the career steal from family time (aka work/life balance).

Dr. Maria Babakhanyan Stone

Unemployed job seeker at the City of Helsinki, Finland * University of Turku (Visiting Scientist)

Welcome to my website video

NOW! Seeking a suitable postdoctoral research position or fellowship in Astronomy. Why am I a good candidate? – video

Invite me to a virtual seminar (free) to present my Thesis work (PhD, 2024) by emailing [email protected] .

My thesis is here!  

https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-9721-3

One minute (60 sec) video-short of my Thesis

Research interests:

  • Evolution of galaxies
  • Environments around AGN-host galaxies
  • SMBH-host galaxy correlations at different redshifts

 

Curriculum vitae (CV)

Refereed and Accepted publications (ads)

Relevant publications (ads)

Youtube channels 

email: [email protected]

It is angular?! – a note on coordinate systems in astronomy

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Research niche and the power of critical thinking

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My stardust spectrum

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suomen kieli – tarvin lisä

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It is essential to try, to test, to make mistakes

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PhD thesis video short

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My postdoc application season musings on the “scarlet number” of the applications

I hope to bring encouragement and transparency to the job application process by posting thoughts and aspects of my own experience. I also hope to demonstrate how I persist and find solutions to move forward despite challenges that I face in this season, in particular...

Video: Welcome to my Website

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My PhD Thesis is Here!

Here is my PhD Thesis in Astronomy https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/177306 The telescope image (taken by yours truly) is the Nordic Optical Telescope, NOT, in the morning minutes after an observing run. While on mountains, there are no mountain lions and it's pretty...
Image Credits: Telescope by Juan Pablo Bravo from the Noun Project

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