Photo: Christoffer Hals · dScience, University of Oslo.
I enjoy giving talks across the full range and I try to make them genuinely pedagogical regardless of the audience. If you want me to talk, get in touch (my email is in the footer)!
Public engagement and outreach
I have given public lectures at the Gothenburg Science Festival and for the local Astronomical Club, given tours and high-school visits at Onsala Space Observatory, and been interviewed for Dutch national radio (Radio 1) and featured in Elsevier Weekblad and ETC Göteborg. A popular-science video accompanying my Nature Astronomy paper on methanol masers — Magnetic secrets of methanol in space — has reached around 20,000 viewers across YouTube and Facebook.
Scientific talks
Flaring masers: excitation modeling and polarization properties Maser Monitoring Organisation (M2O) seminar · online · 16 September 2026 · recording
Opportunities for line polarization with AtLAST contributed · EAS Annual Meeting, AtLAST special session (SS26) · Lausanne, Switzerland · July 2026
Getting at the magnetic fields of CONs contributed · Behind the Curtain of Dust VI · Ishigaki, Japan · June 2026
Line polarization: radiative transfer implementation and scientific opportunities contributed · SKIRT days · Gent, Belgium · October 2025
A modification to the line radiative transfer equation due to many-body effects contributed · SKIRT days · Gent, Belgium · October 2025
Many-body effects and the line radiative transfer equation invited seminar · Astronomy and Astrophysics seminar, Chalmers University of Technology · Gothenburg, Sweden · September 2025 · recording
Line polarization in protostellar environments invited · EAS Annual Meeting · Cork, Ireland · June 2025
The polarization properties of flaring masers contributed · EAS Annual Meeting · Cork, Ireland · June 2025
Measuring the magnetic fields of AGN and protoplanetary accretion disks invited colloquium · Western University, Astronomy and Physics Colloquium · London, ON, Canada · March 2025
Measuring magnetic fields towards the AGN using spectral line polarization invited · Workshop on AGN Polarimetry · Strasbourg, France · September 2024
Astronomical line polarization through gas transport contributed · 33rd Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics · Göttingen, Germany · July 2024
Spectral line polarization: characterizing magnetic fields and chirality contributed · New Eyes on the Universe: SKA and ngVLA · Vancouver, Canada · May 2023 · recording
A comprehensive model of maser polarization contributed · IAU Symposium 380, Cosmic Masers · Kagoshima, Japan · March 2023
Stereodynamics in the interstellar medium "hot topic" talk · Stereodynamics 2022 · Greece · October 2022
Applied stereodynamics in the interstellar medium invited seminar · Leiden University, theoretical chemistry seminar · Leiden, the Netherlands · February 2022
Tracing cosmic magnetic fields in the interstellar medium using stereodynamics invited seminar · Institute of Molecules and Materials, Radboud University · Nijmegen, the Netherlands · February 2022
Tracing cosmic magnetic fields in the interstellar medium invited seminar · Leiden Observatory astrochemistry seminar · Leiden, the Netherlands · October 2021
Probing cosmic magnetic fields using molecules contributed · Astronomical Polarimetry 2020: New Era of Multi-Wavelength Polarimetry · online · March 2021
Tracing cosmic magnetic fields using molecules Hypatia Colloquium (competitive selection) · ESO · online · February 2021 · recording
HCN-VIB polarization: a CONspiracy between radiative-pressure anisotropy and the magnetic field invited · CON-quest workshop · online · January 2021
Line polarization in protoplanetary disks invited review · Magnetic Field Awakens conference · online · December 2020
Line polarization in disks with PORTAL contributed · 5 Years of HL Tau · online · November 2020
Maser polarization contributed · Cosmic Masers splinter session, German Astronomical Society meeting · Stuttgart, Germany · September 2019
The polarization of masers in star-forming regions contributed · Protoplanetary Disks and Polarization · Sant Cugat, Spain · March 2019
The polarization of SiO masers poster · IAU General Assembly · Vienna, Austria · August 2018
The gaseous universe invited review · Dutch Astrochemical Network kickoff meeting · Utrecht, the Netherlands · May 2018
The hyperfine structure and Zeeman effect of methanol masers contributed · IAU Symposium 336, Astrophysical Masers · Cagliari, Italy · September 2017
Tracing magnetic fields using methanol masers contributed · International Meeting for Molecular Spectroscopy · Champaign, IL, USA · June 2017
Methanol's Zeeman effect contributed · Crutcher and Heiles meeting on Star Formation and Magnetic Fields · Madison, WI, USA · May 2016 · recording
