In various occasions, I apply my teacher’s training to outreach activities, mostly for teenagers, and sometimes for general public.
- ORBYTS project with secondary school pupils
- Twitter takeover: @RealSci_Nano for a week, including a podcast interview
- Chemistry World article
- Interview with UCLQ: How fast is quantum tunnelling?
- Interview with Campus-Zeitung, Germany
- Physics teaching at school
- Scientifica 2015: Bouncing Laser demonstration
- Physicist of the week – DPG
- Zukunftstag / Girls’ Day
- Von Sternguckern zu Astronomen / From Stargazers to Astronomers
Studien- und Berufsinformationstag Kanti Wattwil
Informationen zum Physik-Studium an der ETH Zürich (und anderen Unis)
ORBYTS project: mathematical description of plasmonic enhancement in High Harmonic Generation
ORBYTS brings together researchers with secondary school pupils, to work on original research projects.
Initiator Dr. William Dunn talked about how this is a win-win, for historically under-represented pupils, as well as researchers acting as their mentors, in this talk with the UCL Women in Physics group:
Since October 2021 I am working with 25 highly motivated and wonderful students at Newham Collegiate Sixth Form. Together we are aiming to push the approximation limitations that were still present in the Ansari et al 2021 publication [16]:
Twitter takeover: @RealSci_Nano
In the week from 9th-15th November 2020, I was invited to take over the @RealSci_Nano account, introducing Nano- and Materials Scientists and interested people to some strong-field and attosecond physics.
Over the course of the week, I gave a general crash-course to the field, and then created threads to introduce some phenomena and aspects of my research. The master thread-of-threads can be found here:
Related to the Twitter takeover, I was invited by Dr. Pranoti Kshirsagar to The Science Talk podcast of that same week:
Introduction and Overview of the week:
#UnderTheMicroscope – longer discussion:
Chemistry World article
For a report on the recent Nature publication “Measurement of the time spent by a tunnelling atom within the barrier region” by Ramos et al., author Katrina Krämer asked me to put the results of the study in context, specifically related to previous attoclock experiments which also tried to measure tunnelling time.
Interview with UCL Quantum Science & Technology Institute
How fast is quantum tunnelling?
Dr Cornelia Hofmann from UCL’s Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics (AMOPP) group dropped by after her seminar to chat with UCLQ about a question that has been debated in quantum mechanics for a long time: how long does it take for an electron to tunnel through a potential barrier?
Music: Audio Network
Video Producer: Henry Bennie, UCL
Interview with Campus-Zeitung, Germany
In May 2020, an Interview with me appeared in the German university magazine “Campus-Zeitung“, where I discuss my study- and career-path and my research.
Physics teaching at school
During teaching internships in schools, I added segments introducing the students in a hands-on way to my field of research, for example by using a demonstration laser. This laser uses a pump diode in the visible regime (blue) and emits in orange. All fundamental building parts of a laser can be seen and discussed.
Scientifica 2015
At the biennial science fair “Scientifica” fair held at University and ETH Zurich, I supported a booth on (ultrafast) laser physics and demonstrated the “bouncing laser” in a sugar solution with a concentration gradient.
Physicist of the week – DPG
As part of the “physicist of the week” campaign by the working group for equal opportunities of the DPG, my profile was published for the 7th week of the year 2018. In addition, a longer interview was published.
All 52 profiles of 2018
In-deapth interviews with some female physicists
New profiles of 2019
Zukunftstag / Girls’ Day
As part of the Zukunftstag (Switzerland) or Girls’ Day (Germany), I hosted groups of middle school students, to give them a small glimpse into the world of physics research. Pictured above is a hands-on game to play “over-the-barrier-ionization” of an atom (bowl) in a strong field (shaking hand), resulting in a photoelectron (red marble falling out).
Von Sternguckern zu Astronomen / From Stargazers to Astronomers
For many years, I offered an evening program “from Stargazers to Astronomers” for teenager.
First, we’d hear a bit about what astronomy as a science actually is, and perform our own mini-expanding-universe analogy with the resulting Hubble Diagram.
In the second part of the evening, we’d visit an observatory, where we could observe the moon, different stars, nearby galaxies, and sometimes also neighbouring planets, through a telescope.
