Teaching

Courses taught

2022-2024

Main lecturer at ETHZ for the M.Sc course "Cosmic Dust in the Solar System: from science case to mission design."

This was a yearly recurring course, including exercises.  The course covers the science case of cosmic dust, in situ (dust) instrumentation, the space environment, basics of astrodynamics, and aspects of mission and spacecraft design. Exercise classes include a.o. the use of the NASA SPICE system, and numerical simulations.

2020-2021

Lecturer at ETHZ for the M.Sc course "Astronomical Instrumentation"

2018

Guest lecturer at the Arctic Science winter school, IRF, Kiruna, Sweden

2000 - 2002

Teaching Assistant in Engineering Mechanics courses - Aerospace Engineering - TU Delft, the Netherlands

Courses given were in Dutch or in English. 

 

 

Supervision and mentoring

2020-2025
  • Supervision of three Postdocs and one Research Assistant (ETHZ)
  • Supervision of two Master thesis students (ETHZ)
  • Supervision of three Master semester project students (ETHZ)
  • Co-supervision of two Master thesis students (ISAE-Toulouse)
  • Co-supervision of two semester project students (ETHZ, main supervisor: postdoc)
  • Supervision of two Bachelor thesis students (FHNW)
  • Co-supervision of one interdisciplinary Bachelor thesis (ETHZ / D-PHYS-D-MAVT)
2020-2021

Europlanet Mentor for two female PhD students in planetary science

02-05/2008

Internship co-supervision of one Bachelor student from TU Delft, at Thales Alenia Space, Cannes, France

All projects (except ISAE-Toulouse) were defined under my lead responsibility.