Talks

Besides my work as a scientists I am also active as a science communicator. Take a look at some of my talks below. Contact me if you are interested in a talk or workshop for your school, planetarium or knitting club. Topics could cover moons, JUICE and the search for life in the solar system.

Upcoming talks

Past public talks (see below for workshops)

  • Northern Ireland Amateur Astronomy Society, Ballyclare. 7 September 2026
  • Cork astronomy club. 13 April 2026.
  • 20.000 leagues under an alien ocean. St. Columba’s College. Dublin. 27 May 2025.
  • The moon is boring. Pint of Science, Dublin. 20 May 2025.
  • 20,000 Leagues Under an Alien Ocean. Armand Pien Observatory, Gent. 29 March 2025.
  • 20,000 Leagues Under an Alien Ocean. Astrofest, Galway. 8 February 2025.
  • Satellite data. Astronomy camp JVS-Descartes. Veurne. 3 August 2024.
  • Exploring the Moons of our Solar System. Online for Adamjee Cantonment Public School, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 25 June 2024.
  • 20.000 mijlen onder een buitenaardse oceaan (20.000 leagues under an extraterrestrial ocean) for Studium Generale Maastricht University, the Netherlands. 22nd February 2024.
  • 20.000 mijlen onder een buitenaardse oceaan (20.000 leagues under an extraterrestrial ocean) for ie-net. UHasselt, Belgium. 21st February 2024.
  • 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.

 

Workshops

  • Op zoek naar buitenaardsleven (‘the search for extraterrestrial life’). Tajo, Gent. 29 May 2021
  • Hoe weten we de Jupitermaan Europa een ondergrondse oceaan heeft? Interactieve online workshop. (How do we know that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a subsurface ocean? Interactive online workshop). 12 December 2020, Cozmix, Brugge, Belgium
  • Hoe weten we de Jupitermaan Europa een ondergrondse oceaan heeft? Interactieve online workshop. (How do we know that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a subsurface ocean? Interactive online workshop). 14 November 2020, Jongerenvereniging voor Sterrenkunde, Belgium
  • Nepnieuws (fakenews): A workshop for kids about fakenews & science. I teach kids how to recognize fakenews and how to find reliable information on science. JVS-Descartes, Cosmodrome, Genk. 16 March 2019.
  • Landen op een andere planeet (how to land on another planet): Let kids discover the different challenges that come with landing on a different planet, by letting them design and built a safe landing system for an egg. Summercamp JVS-Descartes, Born Belgium. 2014.