Anlaug Amanda Kaas

Anlaug Amanda Djupvik is a Norwegian astronomer. Her main field of research is star formation and the origin of the initial mass function. She used Kaas as a family name (due to marriage), but changed it back to Djupvik in 2004. She was born in Førde, a small town on the west coast of Norway. She grew up in an even smaller village called Leikong on the island of Gurskøy, which is located to the south of the city of Ålesund. She started undergraduate studies at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics in Oslo in August 1986. In January 1992 she obtained the Norwegian Cand. Scient. degree (Master of Science) with her thesis Observations and analysis of the mutual phenomena of the Galilean satellites in 1990-1991, supervised by Kaare...