Talks

Where and what I've spoken about.

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

• 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