Presentations and Posters

Workshops

Supervision across the neurodiverse spectrum

 

Part of professor certificate program at the University of Groningen. Delivered October 2025, January 2026.

 

Bringing Inclusive Teaching to Your Classroom

Education Festival, University of Groningen, Netherlands, March 2025

Empowering Allies: Understanding and Leveraging Social Advantages

2 hour workshop at We@FSE Diversity Week 2024, University of Groningen, Netherlands, Oct 2024 (presentation here)

Invited Talks

Supporting caregivers and neurodivergent academics at FSE

Opening ceremony We@FSE Diversity Week 2024, University of Groningen, Netherlands, Oct 2024

ADHD in Academia

Invited talk+panel: “ADHD in Academia” AMOLF Diversity Day, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2024 (https://prezi.com/view/i76OZ5jZdqYYEhgZGzrp/)

Astrochemistry and the Origin of Life

SiriusA Exoplanets & Astrobiology Symposium, DOT planetarium, Groningen, May 2024

Balancing academia and caregiving: Exploring institutional support

Origin of Life Early-career Network (OoLEN), online via zoom, March 2024

Panelist: How can we improve access and inclusion STEM education?

Invited Panelist: “How can we improve access and inclusion STEM education?”, The role of STEM education in a changing world, Teaching Academy Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands, March 2024 (https://zenodo.org/records/10997179)

Astro-everything and our place in space

Marie Curie student association, Radboud University Nijmegen, September 2023

Panelist: Community activities and actions towards systemic change

Invited Panelist: “Community activities and actions towards systemic change”, Session SS33, EAS 2023, Krakow, Poland, July 2023 

Astrochemie en de Oorsprong van het Leven

SWSE Appingedam (KNVWS), the Netherlands, March 2023

Panelist: Women in Science

Invited Panelist: “Women in Science”, Hamburg Observatory, Germany, March 2023 +

The Origin of Life

Honours College Faculty of Science and Engineering University of Groningen, January 2023

Panelist: In Het Licht

Invited Panelist: “In Het Licht”, KennisCafé Stadium Generale, Groningen December 2022 (https://vimeo.com/777323145)

Keynote talk: Astro-everything and our place in the universe

 

Keynote talk: "Astro-everything and our place in the universe", at PepSci annual meeting, Delft, the Netherlands, November 2022 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7373209)

 

Astrochemie en de Oorsprong van het Leven

Vereniging Gemma Frisius (Royal Dutch Association for Weather and Astronomy), Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, March 2022 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6422688)*

Astrochemistry and the Molecules of Life

Astronomy on Tap Groningen (via Zoom), June 2021 *

Create your own space in science: Journey through an unconventional life

Lustrum speaker for the Honours College Social Association at the University of Groningen (via Zoom), April 2021. (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6422771)*+

Observational studies of formamide formation

Monday science seminar, University of Wisconsin (via Zoom), December 2020.

Panelist: Children and your PhD

Invited panelist: “Children and your PhD”. Networking Breakfast, “I, Scientist”, Berlin, Germany, May 2017.

High Mass Star Formation

SRON (Netherlands Institute for Space Research) meet and greet, Utrecht, the Netherlands, March 2017.

Contributed Talks

Supporting Neurodivergent Academics

 

Inclusion in Astronomy Working Group session, IAU General Assembly, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/live/SUCc25syyg4?t=22104s)

 

Supporting Early Career Caregivers in Astronomy: The Astronomoms Story

Women in Astronomy Working Group session, IAU General Assembly, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/live/jQSqIJlxtnk?t=18728s)  

 

Supporting early career caregivers in astronomy

Session SS23a Early Career Astronomers, EAS 2024, Padova, Italy, July 2024

Playing with the Solar System

Session LS7 Science communication, EAS 2024, Padova, Italy, July 2024

Sterren en Stenen, Archeoastronomie

Lecture: “Sterren en Stenen, Archeoastronomie”, Landelijke Sterrenkijkdagen, Blaauw Sterrenwacht, Groningen, Netherlands, March 2024 

The extensive benefits of a neurodiverse workplace

Session SS33, EAS 2023, Krakow, Poland, July 2023 (https://zenodo.org/records/10996731)

 

Baby's first tantrum ~ the chaotic chemical environment of Cha-MMS1

Colloquium: Leiden, the Netherlands, April 2023

 

Astrochemistry and the Origin of Life

Colloquium: ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands, February 2023

Sulfur's journey from the volcanoes of Io

Kapteyn Science Day, December 2022, Groningen, the Netherlands

Sulfur's journey from the volcanoes of Io

From Clouds to planets II: the astrochemical link, Berlin, Germany, October 2022

Solar System chemistry with the ALMA archive

Kapteyn Science Day flash presentation, University of Groningen (via Zoom), June 2021

Observational studies of formamide formation

University of Groningen (via Zoom), April 2021.

Observational studies of formamide formation

Lunch talk at ESO, Garching, Germany (via Zoom), October 2020.

Empirical study of formamide formation around young O-type stars

New quests in stellar astrophysics IV: Astrochemistry, Astrobiology, and the origin of life Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 2019.

Chemistry in high-mass star forming regions: observations and modeling

Colloquium: given at NASA GSFC (October 2018); University of Groningen, Netherlands (October 2018); Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taiwan (February 2019); and National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (February 2019).

Complex cyanides as a chemical clock: Explaining cyanide segregation in G35.20-0.74N

Colloquium: Colloquium at University of Leeds, UK, October 2017.

Complex cyanides as a chemical clock: Explaining cyanide segregation in G35.20-0.74N

Dutch Network 2 bi-annual meeting, Groningen, the Netherlands, October 2017.

Small Scale Chemical Segregation within Keplerian Disk Candidate G35.20N

Dutch Network 2 bi-annual meeting, Leiden, the Netherlands, October 2016.

Ask an Astronomer: Star formation and Astrochemistry

Zpannend Zernike open day, Groningen, the Netherlands, October 2016.

Small Scale Chemical Segregation Within Keplerian Disk Candidate G35.20-0.74N

AAS summer meeting, USA, June 2016.

The Curious Chemistry of G35.20-0.74N

Colloquium given four times at: University of Leeds, UK; IRAM Grenoble, France; California Institute of Technology, USA; NASA Ames, USA; Summer 2016.

Posters

“Playing with the Solar System: Creating positive experiences with science for young children”

Office of Astronomy for Outreach session, IAU General Assembly, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNo4A4an18s)

“We are all nebula stuff: investigating the formation prebiotic molecules in star-forming regions”

ALMA 10 years, Puerto Varas, Chile, December 2023

“Toward decolonizing astronomy outreach, three steps away from Eurocentric bias”

“We are all nebula stuff: investigating the formation prebiotic molecules in star-forming regions”

BEACON, La Palma, May 2023

“We are all nebula stuff: investigating the formation of in star-forming regions”

oLife Annual meeting, Groningen, NL, November 2022.

"Early Career Parents Cooperative"

"Early Career Parents Cooperative". NAC 2022, Blankenberge, Belgium, May 2022.

“Characterizing outflows from low-mass object Chamaeleon-MMS1”

ALMA2019: Science Results and Cross-Facility Synergies, Cagliari, Italy, October 2019 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3585332)

“Chemical Segregation in a high-mass disk candidate: Observations and Modeling”

Francesco's legacy: Star formation in space and time, Florence, Italy, June 2017, and Current and future perspectives of chemical modeling in Astrophysics, Hamburg, Germany, July 2017.

“An ALMA view of small scale chemical separation in G35.20-0.74N”

The 6th Zermatt ISM Symposium, Switzerland, September 2015.

“An ALMA view of chemical structure of high-mass hot cores in G35.20”

Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie (National Dutch Astronomers conference), the Netherlands, May 2015.

“The small scale chemistry and kinematics of G35.20N with ALMA”

The Soul of High-Mass Star Formation, Chile, March 2015.

“The complex chemistry of massive star forming region G35.20-0.74N”

The Olympian Symposium on Star Formation, Greece, May 2014.