Ph.D. Profile: Cecilie Cold

Cecilie Cold is a PhD Candidate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, working with Prof. Jens Hjorth. Cecilie’s research focuses on core-collapse supernovae interacting with hydrogen-rich material. This kind of interaction is speculated to be a mechanism that drives bright supernovae and perhaps even play a role in formation of dust in the Universe. Cecilie is working on determining the rate of these objects, called type IIn supernovae, and she is also studying their observational properties as part of the collaboration Young Supernova Experiment.