Conferences, teaching and outreach

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List of talks

  • GPRV workshop, Sep 2026, Oxford, UK
    Discussion - Learning from the Loudest: What active stars can teach us about detecting Earth 2.0
  • PLATO ESP conference, Sep 2026, Warwick, UK
    Contributed talk - Learning from the Loudest: What active stars can teach us about detecting Earth 2.0
  • Preparing for Gaia's Exoplanet Bonanza , March 2026, Ringberg, Germany.
    Contributed talk: Chasing exoplanets around white dwarfs with Gaia.
  • PLATOSpec scientific conference, December 2025, Santiago, Chile.
    Invited talk: Disentangling stellar activity with small telescopes.
  • German astronomical society meeting, September 2025, Görlitz, Germany.
    Contributed talk: Characterising exoplanets around white dwarfs.
  • Seminar at Penn State, August 2025, USA.
  • EPRV6, June 2025, Porto, Portugal.
    Splinter session: Planets around young stars.
  • Invited seminar at Imperial College, April 2025, London, UK.
  • TESS Science Conference III, July 2024, MIT, USA.
    Contributed talk: racing planet formation with the youngest transiting exoplanet candidate.
  • MIAPbP workshop on Habitability, May 2024, Garching, Germany.
    Contributed talk: Detecting and characterising small exoplanets,
  • Open Problems in the Astrophysics of Gas Giants, November 2023, Puerto Natales, Chile.
    Contributed talk: Constraining giant planet formation scenarios with sub-Saturns.
  • Mullard Space Science Laboratory seminar, April 2023, Online.
    Invited Seminar: The transition between Ice and Gas giants.
  • Extremely precise RVs V, March 2023, Santa Barbara, USA.
    Talk (winner of poster-competition): Transition between Gas- and Ice giants explored with TESS and RV follow-up
  • ESO-Vitacura Thirty Minute Talk, Feb 2023, Santiago de Chile.
    Invited talk: The transition between Ice and Gas giants.
  • Disks and Exoplanets across ESO facilities, November 2022, Garching.
    Invited review: Exoplanet Detection.
  • Exoplanets IV conference, May 2022, Las Vegas.
    Contributed talk: Transition between Ice and Gas giants explored with TESS and RV follow-up.
  • GPRV workshop, March 2022, Oxford.
    Invited talk + discussion: Robust RV masses of young planets.
  • TESS Science Team Meeting, Dec 2021, online.
    Talk: public data release from the vetting of TESS target with CORALIE
  • TESS Science conference II, July 2021, Pasadena/online.
    Convener, chair and panel-member at splinter session on young planets.
    Poster: Spectroscopic vetting of TESS planet candidates with CORALIE on the Swiss 1.2 m telescope.
  • KIPAC Tea series at Stanford University, May 2021, online.
    Invited talk: Towards robust characterisation of young transiting planets.
  • SPIMAX seminar, may 2021, Oxford/online.
    Invited talk: Probing planet formation through in-depth characterisation of transiting planets.
  • UK exoplanet meeting 2021, Birmingham/online.
    Contributed pop-talk: Transition between ice and gas giants.
  • Astronomy seminar LMU, Jan 2021, Munich/online.
    Invited talk: Snapshot of planet evolution: overcoming stellar noise to characterise young systems.
  • CfA Virtual Exoplanet Pizza Lunch , Nov 2020, Harvard/online.
    Invited talk: Transition between Ice and Gas giants explored with TESS and radial velocity measurements.
  • Exoplanets III conference, July 2020, Heidelberg/online.
    Contributed talk: The transition between Ice and Gas giants.
  • Geneva observatory seminar, June 2020, Geneva.
    Seminar: Exoplanet demographics in the era of TESS.
  • Online TESS science meeting, June 2020, online.
    Contributed talk: The transition between Neptune- and Saturn-like planets.
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory's astrophysical journal club, February 2020, Pasadena, USA.
    Invited talk: Exploring the transition between Ice and Gas giant exoplanets.
  • EPSC-DPS conference, September 2019, Geneva.
    Contributed talk: Exploring the transition between ice- and gas giant exoplanets from TESS.
  • Plato ESP workshop, September 2019, Warwick, UK.
    Contributed talk: RV-follow up of mono-transits from TESS.
  • TESS science meeting, July 2019, Cambridge, USA.
    Contributed talk: Precise mass determination of three mini-neptunes transiting TOI-125.
  • Summer school on exoplanet-demographics, May 2019, Vietri, Italy.
    Contributed talk: Exoplanet demographics in the era of TESS: results from the radial velocity follow-up from the first 9 sectors.
  • Swiss `PlanetS' TESS workshop, May 2019, Geneva.
    Overview talk: Results from TESS sectors 1-9 and ground based follow-up observations.
  • NIRPS Science team meeting, April 2019, Geneva.
    Invited talk: Geneva activities on TESS-follow up.
  • Swiss JWST workshop, May 2017, Bern, Switzerland.
    Invited talk: Capabilities of NIRSPEC-JWST for exoplanet science.

Teaching

  • Teaching assistant at LMU, Munich. Courses: Astrophysik 1 (Bsc), Introduction to Advanced Astrophysics (Msc), and Astrophysics labs (Msc).
  • Teaching Seminar series on Bayesian inference and AI in astrophysics, 2024-2026.
  • Guest speaker at Geoastronomy seminar series, LMU.
  • 'Exploring the building blocks of exoplanets' lectures at ESO Summer Research Programme 2022 and 2023.
  • Guest speaker astrophysics summer-student programme, 'Introduction to Exoplanet science in the era of TESS', summer 2021, Oxford/online.
  • Lab assistant and moderator for hands-on session on planet spectra at Sagan Summer School July 2021, Pasadena/online.
  • Teacher assistant for Masters course on `Exoplanet detection techniques' at Geneva Observatory, in-person and online teaching, spring 2020.
  • Taught exercise- and lab classes for Bachelor students at physics at Copenhagen University, including Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics. April 2010 - June 2014.
  • Jens Martin Knudsen award for best teaching of the year at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, along with the full team of instructors in June 2014.

I have also supervised a number of students working on independent research projects at Geneva University and ESO:
  • Keith Baka: PhD student at USM working on planets around young stars, 2024 -
  • Luis Thomas: PhD Student at USM working on sub-saturns. Co-supervised till 2026.
  • Yutong Liu: Msc. Student, applying LBL RV extraction to Wendelstein data, 2025.
  • Leonardo Kramer: Msc. Student, Characterising long-period giant planets with Gaia DR4 and TESS, 2026 - .
  • Jebraan Mudholkar: Msc. Student, RV observation of fast rotating stars with transiting planets in prep for ARIEL. 2025-2026.
  • Benjamin Wechselberger: Msc. Student working on modeling stellar activity with gaussian processes. 2024-2025.
  • Hannah Osborne, PhD student spending 1yr at ESO, co-supervised w. Vincent Van Eylen (MSSL) and Michael Sterzik (ESO). Studying small planets with archival data. 2023 - 2025.
  • Kate Barton, Research Intern: Combat stellar activity though chromatic analysis of radial velocities. ESO Summer Research programme 2023.
  • Linn Friis-Liby, Research Intern: Combat stellar activity though chromatic analysis of radial velocities. ESO Summer Research programme 2022.
  • Cebine Ragn: High school student: 'Junior researcher' competition in Denmark. (un)Habitability of planets around M-dwarfs. Summer 2020.
  • Jules Dallant: Master student: TESS follow-up and exoplanet databases. Spring 2020.
  • Francesco DeMarco: Master student: comparing methods of modeling RVs + transit light curves. Spring 2020.
  • Maulik Bhatt: Master student: Optimizing TESS follow-up by identifying blended stellar binaries. Spring 2020.
  • Maxime Zahler: Bsc. student: Global statistic of TESS results. Autumn 2019.
  • Mohamed Chehih: Bsc. student: Caractérisation des premiers candidats exoplanètes de TESS. Autumn 2018.
  • Carmelo Mileto: Bsc. student: Follow-up of NGTS planet candidates. Spring 2018.
  • Erik Lindstrøm: High school student: final year project. Transit analysis on WASP-47. Spring 2018.

Outreach

I am passionate about engaging in scientific outreach activities and sharing my knowledge with diverse audiences. If you are seeking a speaker for your event, school class or seminar, I would be thrilled to contribute. Please feel free to reach out to me, as I am eager to connect and inspire through the power of science.

  • Outreach talks for LMU 'Uni Tag' and high-school class events at USM, 2023 - present.
  • Radio and podcast interviews, e.g. Exoplaneten - Die Jagd nach der zweiten Erde with Bayern 2.
  • Co-founder of 'Astronomy on Tap, Munich'
  • Guest on Exocast Episode 75b
  • Speaker at Rundetårn, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025 'Den astronomiske time: Fra lys til viden'
  • Voiceover for ESO promotional video 'What is ESO'
  • Talks and tours at ESO visitor center Supernova high school students, 2022 and 2023, ESO HQ Germany.
  • I am a co-creator and host of the Danish-speaking podcast Stjerneklart about astronomy and space exploration.
    37 episodes: https://stjerneklart.dk
  • Girls day in Science, October 2021, Skive Gymnasium, Denmark.
  • Be a Star in ESA's Universe, online recruitment event, November 2020, Swiss Space Center.
    Invited talk: Exoplanet science in Switzerland and in space.
  • Tours, talks and observation nights at Geneva observatory, about 10 groups per year, 2017-2020.
  • Star gazing workshop, Goulash disco festival 2019, Croatia.