Supervision & Teaching
I've always enjoyed teaching and mentoring. I started in my Bachelor’s by supervising high school students with their astronomy thesis. During my Master’s, I was a teaching assistant for a third-year course on radiative processes. Since then—through my PhD and now as a postdoc—I’ve continued mentoring summer students, as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s students. Now, as an ALMA fellow in Leiden, I also help graduate students get the most out of their ALMA data and guide them in turning it into meaningful science.
Education & Outreach
I like public speaking, I have done so from an early age, and I still enjoy it. For instance, I gave a public lecture on the evolution of cosmic structures at the Pint of Science event in Munich. And now as a guest lecturer with Petje af in The Hague, I introduce children from underprivileged backgrounds to astronomy. In light of this, I developed a teaching module that enables high school students to learn coding with real astronomical data, which Leiden University continues to use in outreach events and open days. This exercise on a transit of an exoplanet can be found below!