Selected recent scientific talks
Since 2021, I have given 20 scientific talks, including 2 invited talks, at international conferences and institutes. Selected talks over the past three years are listed below.
- November 2025: Contributed talk at Why Galaxies care about AGB stars V: 3D winds in the cosmic matter cycle, Santiago, Chile
- The AGB binary progeny: spatially resolving the inner regions of their dusty discs
- October 2025: Contributed talk at the XX SOCHIAS meeting, Puerto Montt, Chile
- At the intersection of stellar evolution and planet formation: post-AGB discs at high angular resolution
- January 2025: Contributed talk at Horizons for Optical Long Baseline Interferometry, Paris, France
- On the inner regions of circumstellar discs
- January 2025: Seminar at ESO Garching, Germany
- Spatially resolving the cirumstellar environment of evolved binary stars: do they have planet formation capabilities?
- January 2025: Invited talk at The formation and long-term evolution of circumbinary planetary systems across the H-R diagram, Florence, Italy
- Observations of post-AGB discs
- October 2024: Seminar at Instituto de Estudios Astrofisicos, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
- Spatially resolving the cirumstellar environment of evolved binary stars: do they have planet formation capabilities?
- March 2024: Lunch talk at the Kapteyn Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands
- A sharp view on discs around evolved binary systems: do they give birth to planets?
- September 2023: Seminar at Institut d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique, Brussels, Belgium
- Infrared interferometric observations of discs around evolved binary systems: do they give birth to planets?
- July 2023: Invited talk at EAS2023, Krakow, Poland
- INSPIRING: a VLTI large program giving a sharp view on second generation protoplanetary discs
- May 2023: Thirty minute talk ‘ at ESO Chile, virtual
- An infrared interferometric view of circumstellar discs around evolved binaries: are they protoplanetary discs?
Other talks to the astronomical community
- June 2025: Science lecture at ESO Chile
- The pathway to planet formation: the when, the where, and the how
- March 2025: Talk and discussion lead in Monthly Equitea series at ESO Chile
- The perfectionism trap: when good is good enough
Organisation
- 2025: Co-chair of the ESO-ALMA Science Day, Santiago
- 2025: Member of the LOC of Why Galaxies care about AGB stars V: 3D winds in the cosmic matter cycle, ESO‑ALMA, Santiago
- 2025: Co-chair of the ESO/JAO science day, ESO Chile
- 2025 – present: Co-chair of Monthly EquiTea meetings, ESO Chile
- 2025: Member of the SOC and LOC of the Adelina Seminar Series, ESO Chile
- 2024 – present: Co-chair of Monthly Science Lecture series, ESO Chile
- 2022 – 2023: Co-chair of weekly meetings of postdocs and PhD students, KU Leuven
- 2020 – 2023: Chair of weekly group meetings of the post-AGB binary research team, KU Leuven
Outreach
- 2023: Lecture in the series of courses on current topics in astronomy – planet formation at the public Observatory Beisbroek, Brugge, Belgium.
- 2022: Developing and giving workshops at a secondary school on stellar evolution and (exo)planets, Leuven.
- 2021- 2023: Workshops about the Solar System for 8-12 year olds at the ‘Kinderuniversiteit’, Leuven.
Teaching and supervision
- 2025: Co‑host of early career scientific visitor, P. Priolet, on VLTI data of exozodiacal dust, 3 months, ESO Chile
- 2019 – 2023: Teaching assistant for the course ‘Physics with elements of mathematics’ for 1st year BSc Pharmacy, KU Leuven. Here I provided help and feedback to the students at the experimental and report writing levels.
- 2022: supervision of a MSc research project. Here I provided guidance in the students’ understanding of (mid-)infrared interferometry and geometric modelling applied to new interferometric observations of a post-AGB binary system.
- 2021: co-supervision of a MSc research project, providing mentorship in their understanding of theoretical processes in post-AGB binary systems applied to a few targets.
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