About me
Dr Mirna van Hoek is a physicist involved in the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) project. OMI is one of the 4 instruments on the AURA satelite. It measures, among others, ozone, NO2, SO2, aerosols and clouds. As a member of the Instrument Operations Team (IOT) she ensures measurements are performed every day. She also developped the automatic monitoring program that monitors the instrument engeneering parameters for unexpected trends. She also set up the OMI website at KNMI.
Before her involvement in OMI she worked as a high energy physicist for the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, as a member of the BaBar Collaboration and was stationed at Stanford Linear Accelorator Center (SLAC). During that period she was responsible for the detector response simulation of the driftchamber and developped a better method of modelling the inefficiency of the chamber. She also determined the branching ratio of rare B decays modes for which she developped a general user package to deal with several, slightly different, rare B decay modes. For some rare B decay modes it is also possible to measure CP violation. She helped set up the timedependent maximum likelihood fit.
As a PhD student she worked for the University of Nijmegen as a member of the L3 collaboration and was stationed part of the time at
Cern, Geneva, Switserland. She was responsible for monitoring of the L3 Silicon Microvertex Detector during its first year of operation.
Her thesis subject was: "Excited Beauty at L3". The excited B meson decays into a B meson and a pion. The L3 detector was also able
to measure, next to the charged pion channel, the neutral pion channel due to the good Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the L3 detector.
She successfully defended her thesis September 29 1999.
Contact me
You can send me an e-mail or contact me at:
M. van Hoek
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
PO-Box 201, NL-3730 AE
De Bilt, The Netherlands
Phone +31 30 2206 613