Outreach & Media

I regulary give talks or participate in outreach activities, particularly on topics like cosmic dust in the solar system, history of spaceflight, science and society, etc. Languages are English, Dutch, German or French. Previous activities and topics are listed below. Please contact me for future events if interested.

Besides outreach talks, I have given over a hundred professional seminars, talks, colloquia, and contributed or solicited talks at conferences. 

Outreach events

  • 09.05.2025: Astronomische Gesellschaft Urania Zürich [CH]: Vortrag Kosmischer Staub im Sonnensystem als Boten von anderen Welten [German]
  • 15.03.2024: Talk for the "Belgian Lunch Ladies" in the Observatory of Versoix [CH]: Het stof dat door ons zonnestelsel zweeft [Dutch]
  • 22.02.2024: Talk for the "Zürich Physikalische Gesellschaft", at ETH Zürich [CH]: Cosmic dust as messengers from outer space [English]
  • 27.09.2023: Astronomische Vereinigung Aarau [CH]: Vortrag Kosmischer Staub in unserem Hinterhof [German]
  • 13.02.2023: Astronomische Gesellschaft Bern [CH]: Vortrag Kosmischer Staub in unserem Hinterhof [German]
  • 12.01.2023: NASA xD talk [USA and online]: Our dusty universe [English]
  • 10.09.2022: Support at the Night of Science University of Bern [CH]
  • 17.06.2022: Support at the Night of Physics at the ETH Zürich [CH]
  • 16.03.2022: Talk for the VVN in the "Sterrenwacht Armand Pien", Ghent [BE] about interstellar and interplanetary dust research.
  • 23.02.2022: Talk for the observatory Beisbroek, Bruges [BE, online], in the lecture series of "Topical themes in astronomy”, about interstellar and interplanetary dust.
  • 10.10.2021: Talk at Fantasy Basel [CH] about Space Dust in the frame of the activities of NCCR PlanetS [German]
  • 10.11.2020: Contribution to the “interstellar objects” external page Wikipedia page with text and graph based on our publication [English]

Media coverage

  • 20.06.2024: Interview NRC: De Voyager-sondes sturen 47 jaar na hun lancering nog altijd signalen naar de aarde [Dutch] - concerning the Voyager mission
  • 23.04.2023: Interview for NZZ Article: Der Astrophysiker Avi Loeb will auf dem Meeresgrund nach Meteoritenfragmenten fischen. [German] - concerning interstellar meteors
  • 01.01.2022: Orion journal articles about women in Astronomy [German]
  • 15.08.2022: Online article of the NCCR PlanetS: The mysteries of cosmic dust [English] - about our experiments to calibrate porous versus compact dust particles (publication)
  • 28.10.2021: Focus on Belgium reports on the Christophe Plantin prize 2021 [English]
  • 14.09.2021: Online article on the Interstellar Probe mission concept [German] -  a.o. related to our dust flux predictions for ISP (Dr. Silvan Hunziker)
  • 17.01.2020 - Volkskrant, the Netherlands: Article on the Interstellar Probe [Dutch]
  • 03.09.2019 - ETH Zürich: ERC Starting Grants: new record for ETH (institutional release)