Talks

This is a list of selected talks, colloquia, posters and public lectures that I presented over the years. In some cases, even a recording is available.

  1. Invited Colloquium, Neutron star and black hole formation in binary stars, Carnegie Observatories Colloquium, USA, virtual, Jan 2021
  2. Invited Colloquium, The strongest magnets in the Universe, Virtual IvS Seminar, KU Leuven, Belgium, Jan 2021 – watch on YouTube
  3. Public Talk, Maximal Magnetisch: von Magnetaren, Vampiren und Radioblitzen, Wissenschaft Live, Wilhelm-Foerster Sternwarte und Planetarium am Insulaner, Berlin, Germany, Oct 2020
  4. Invited Talk, State-of-the-art evolution models for single, binary and magnetic massive stars, MOBSTER-I: “Stellar variability as a probe of magnetic fields in massive stars”, virtual, Jul 2020
  5. Contributed Talk, Stellar mergers as the origin of magnetic massive stars, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Leiden (virtual), Netherlands, Jul 2020
  6. Public Talk, Maximal Magnetisch: von Magnetaren, Vampiren und Radioblitzen, Vortragsreihe “Faszination Astronomie”, Haus der Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany, Feb 2020
  7. Talk, The strongest magnets in the Universe, SPI-MAX seminar, Oxford, UK, Jun 2019
  8. Invited Colloquium, Turbulent lives of massive stars, Surrey Astronomy Seminar, Guildford, UK, May 2019
  9. Public lecture, Weighing Stars, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave and Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Nov 2018
  10. Invited Colloquium, Turbulent lives of massive stars, ARI Colloquium, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Oct 2018
  11. Invited Colloquium, The turbulent and explosive lives of massive stars, Astrophysics Seminar, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep 2018
  12. Invited Talk, The stellar initial mass function in the local 30 Doradus starburst, Frontiers of the Physics of Massive Stars: from the Main Sequence to LIGO, Ensenada, Mexico, Jul 2018
  13. Invited Talk, Influence of binary mass-transfer on pre-supernova stellar structures, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae: From the Central Engines to the Observer, Université Paris Saclay, Paris Orsay, France, Jun 2018
  14. Invited Colloquium, The stellar initial mass function in the local 30 Doradus starburst, Astrophysics Seminar, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Mar 2018
  15. Invited Colloquium, The stellar initial mass function in the local 30 Doradus starburst, Astrophysics Seminar, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Dec 2017
  16. Invited Talk, IMF (non-)universality from resolved stellar populations, The Initial Mass Function from Top to Bottom (Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Discussion Meeting), London, United Kingdom, Nov 2017
  17. Invited Colloquium, The stellar initial mass function in the local 30 Doradus starburst, Astrophysics Seminar, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom, Oct 2017
  18. Invited Talk, Ages of O stars: effects of mergers and rejuvenated binaries, Ages2: Taking Stellar Ages to the Next Power (Conference), La Biodola, Elba, Italy, Sep 2017
  19. Contributed Talk, Supernova Progenitors from Binary Stars, Ringberg Workshop on Progenitor-SN-Remnant Connection, Ringberg Castle, Germany, Jul 2017
  20. Invited Colloquium, The 30 Dor IMF and feedback from massive stars, Astrophysics Seminar, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, May 2017
  21. Invited Talk, Outcomes of Massive Star Mergers, KITP Massive Star Conference, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA, Mar 2017
  22. Invited Colloquium, Magnetic Massive Stars, Keele Astrophysics Seminar, Keele University, UK, Jan 2017
  23. Contributed Talk, On the mass distribution of neutron stars, Tenth Neutron Star Workshop: Supernovae and Formation of Neutron Stars, Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn, Germany, Nov 2016
  24. Invited Colloquium, Magnetic Massive Stars, Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, Sep 2016
  25. Contributed Talk, Rejuvenation of Stellar Mergers and the Origin of Magnetic Fields in Massive Stars, Binary Stars in Cambridge conference, IoA, University of Cambridge, UK, Jul 2016
  26. Invited Talk, Turbulent Lives of Massive Stars, Oxford Astrophysics Colloquium, Oxford, UK, Jan 2016
  27. Discussion Starter (Talk), What are the consequences of the most massive stars (likely) being products of binary evolution?, Lorentz Center Workshop “The Impact of Massive Binaries Throughout the Universe”, Leiden, Netherlands, Jul 2015
  28. Invited Talk, Modern tools for the modelling of stellar evolution of massive stars, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Tenerife, Spain, Jun 2015
  29. Best PhD thesis award talk, Massive Stars and Stellar Populations, Physical Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Apr 2015
  30. PhD colloquium, Statistical Analyses of Massive Stars and Stellar Populations, Bonn, Germany, Feb 2015
  31. Invited Talk, The ages of massive stars in 30 Doradus, Astrophysics Seminar, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Nov 2014
  32. Poster, The BONNSAI project: a statistical comparison of individual stars with stellar evolution, Binary star conference, University of Leuven, Belgium, Sep 2013
  33. Contributed Talk, The most massive stars — How stellar evolution shapes the mass function, Massive stars conference, Rhodes, Greece, Jun 2013
  34. Contributed Talk, What the present-day mass function tells us about the massive stellar content of star clusters, Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany, Sep 2012
  35. Invited Talk, The most massive stars — How binary evolution shapes the mass function, Stellar Astrophysics Seminar, STScI, Baltimore (MD), USA, Sep 2012
  36. Contributed Talk, The effects of stellar and close binary evolution on the present-day mass function, National Astronomy Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom, Mar 2012
  37. Talk, Neutrinos from supernova 1987A, Group seminar, Bonn, Germany, Apr 2011