Talks

Contact me if you want to invite me for a talk or workshop at your school, planetarium, science event or other. I’m fluent in Dutch and English.

Recent public talks (see below for workshops)

• 20.000 mijlen onder een buitenaardse oceaan (20.000 leagues under an extraterrestrial ocean) (video). Keynote at PhD cup, October 2022.
• Is there life on Europa? (video) For Lecturers Without Borders & Art of Inquiry. Online. 8 August 2022.
• Is there life on Europa? Lecturers Without Borders. Ben Bella Secondary School, Stone Town, Zanzibar. 25 July 2022.
• Is there life on Europa? Astronomy Club Saintgits College of Engineering India, online. 21 July 2022.
• Is there life on Europa? Astronomy Club Khalifa University, UAE. 10 May 2022.
• Skype a scientist. Volga Christian School. 24 February 2022.
• Is there life on Europa? Physics student society, Gent University. 22 November 2021.
• How do we study other planets? (video) Croatian high school teachers.  16 November 2021.
• Volcanoes across the solar system. (video) Lecturers without borders.  8 November 2021.
• Skype a scientist. Passmore elementary, Alvin. 6 April 2021
• How do we study other planets? (video) Lecturers without borders. Highschool in Greece. 23 March 2021.
• Skype a scientist. St. Mary’s Visitation, Elm Grove. 24 February 2021.
• Skype a scientist. St. Mary Parish School, Menomonee Falls. 10 February 2021.
• Skype a scientist. St. Mary Parish School, Menomonee Falls. 5 February 2021.
• Skype a scientist. Basilica School of Saint Mary. 27 January 2021
• Skype a scientist 2x. Basilica School of Saint Mary. 21 January 2021
• Skype a scientist. Dobbs Ferry High School. 21 December 2020.
• Buitenaards detectivewerk (online), Cozmix, Brugge. 9 December 2020
• Buitenaards detectivewerk, VVS/JVS weekend. Cosmodrome, Genk. 3 October 2020
• Buitenaards detectivewerk, PhD cup semi-finals. Brussels. 23 September 2020.
• Sound of Science, 6 September 2020 (cancelled because of corona virus).
• Online talk and Q&A about Starlink and BepiColombo. Youth organisation for astronomy, Belgium, 3 May 2020.
• Maori weekend, Museum Volkenkunde Leiden, 2 Mei 2020 (cancelled because of corona virus).
• Twintigduizend mijlen onder een buitenaardse zee. Sterrenwacht Copernicus. 16 April 2020 (cancelled because of corona virus).
• Manen van ijs en vuur. Descartes Jeugdsymposium. 28 Maart 2020 (cancelled because of corona virus).
• Online astronomy Q&A. International School of Amsterdam. 23 March 2020.
• Hoe land ik op een andere planeet? Met Angelique van Ombergen. Kinderuniversiteit Antwerpen. 8 Maart 2020 (cancelled because of corona virus).
• Sounds of Interstellar Space met jazz trio Trifid. Noordwijk, Space Expo. 24 January 2020
• Sounds of Interstellar Space met jazz trio Trifid. Bovenkarspel, sterrenwacht Orion. 11 January 2020
• Sounds of Interstellar Space met jazz trio Trifid. Utrecht, sterrenwacht Sonnenborgh. 10 January 2020
• Watervulkanen op Europa, proeven van een buitenaardse oceaan. Galileo, KNVWS afd. Zuid-Limburg. 23 November 2019.
• Moons of Ice and Fire (video). Space storytellers, ESA open day. Noordwijk, the Netherlands. 7 October 2019.
• Science show exoplanets. ESA open day. Noordwijk, the Netherlands. 7 October 2019.
• Science show moons. ESA open day. Noordwijk, the Netherlands. 7 October 2019.
• Europa: a taste of an extraterrestrial ocean. Bessensap 2019, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 21 June 2019.
• Moons of Ice and Fire (video). Astronomy on Tap Leiden, the Netherlands. 27 May 2019.
• Watervulkanen op Europa, proeven van een buitenaardse oceaan. JWG Leiden, the Netherlands. 10 May 2019
• Moons of Ice and Fire (video). Dutch Famelab finals. Tivoli, Utrecht, the Netherlands. 9 May 2019
• Europa: a taste of an extraterrestrial ocean (video). Winning talk Famelab Delft. 3 April 2019.
• Water volcanoes on Europa, tasting an extraterrestrial ocean. Sunnulækjarskóli, Selfoss, Iceland. 11 February 2019
• Water volcanoes on Europa, tasting an extraterrestrial ocean.
  New Zealand Astrobiology Network (NZAN), Lower Hutt, New Zealand. 2 November 2018
• Water volcanoes on Europa, tasting an extraterrestrial ocean.
  Wellington Institute of Technology, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. 2 November 2018
• Water volcanoes on Europa, tasting an extraterrestrial ocean. Taita College, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. 2 November 2018.
• Water volcanoes on Europa, tasting an extraterrestrial ocean. Auckland Astronomical Society (video). Auckland, New Zealand. 22 October 2018.
• Watervulkanen op Europa, proeven van een buitenaardse oceaan. Cosmodrome, Genk, Belgium. 15 March 2018.
• Water volcanoes on Europa, tasting an extraterrestrial ocean.
  Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium, Göttingen, Germany. 30 November 2017.
• Planet 9. Summer camp JVS-Descartes, Zutendaal. July 2017.
• Volcanism in the solar system, science show. Night of Science. Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany. 21 January 2017.
• Water volcanoes on Europa: tasting an extraterrestrial ocean. Science Slam. Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany. 15 July 2016.