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Science Communication & Outreach
I am very active in science communication and outreach, and I have been involved in many different activities and given talks for different audiences. I highlight here a few events/initiatives that I am ot I've recently been part of:
Misión Eclipse 2025/2026
Mission Eclipse was a science outreach and civic education project designed to prepare the population of Calahorra (my hometown) for the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026. I launched this initiative in collaboration with the Calahorra Regional Youth Council with the goal of bringing astronomy closer to the public through more than 50 activities held between August 2025 and August 2026.
The program included outreach talks, workshops for teachers, safety demonstrations, and astronomical observation sessions, and it was a huge success high.
Habla con ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía
An initiative from the Institute of Astronomy of the Canary Islands that gives female astronomers visibility while offering young students new role models in scientific and technical fields. The programme organises video calls in which we explain our work and our science projects at schools and high schools in Spain. I have participated in this programme for three consecutive years with about 10 talks.
Chatea con una astrónoma.
"Chatea con una astrónoma." is an activity organised annually by the Women and Astronomy Commission of the Spanish Astronomical Society, as part of the events held on February 11th, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. For 12 consecutive hours, anyone can join an online platform to chat with a professional astrophysicist. I have participated in this initiative for three consecutive years.
The fingerprints of the stars
I organised this project with my students from the Master's Course Atmósferas Estelares at the Universidad de La Laguna. They made short outreach videos showing the stellar spectra of peculiar stars of their choice, making stellar spectroscopy accessible to the public. We published the results as a press release in Spanish on the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias blog.
Pint of Science Spain 2024
Six years after my first talk at the Pint of Science festival in Antwerp (Belgium), I have been invited to participate in my new town, and I am super excited! I will talk about stars and about how they make the stuff we are made of.
Amigos del IAC en Tacoronte
Amigos del IAC is a program led by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias that aims at bringing the science done in the institute and the citizens closer. One of their initiatives involves organising astronomy lectures, and I was the lecturer of one in April 2024.
More information about the program: https://www.iac.es/es/amigos-del-iac
Co-host of ESO's 60th anniversary virtual tour
This virtual tour was part of a campaign to mark the 60th birthday of the European Southern Observatory. Under the motto “Feet on the ground, eyes on the sky”, ESO organised several activities focusing on building on their legacy to continue the success story of international collaboration in astronomy. As part of this campaign, this 1-h broadcast tried to highlight the work done in the different sites. I co-hosted the event from the Paranal Observatory and explained how astronomers work at observatories and why these are in the desert.
Astronomía al Parque
As part of the National Astronomy Day in Chile and with the support of the ESO Chile's communication team, I co-organised an event that brought ESO scientists to a park to talk about astronomy and answer astronomy questions from our visitors.
"Astronomía en vivo" - Live astronomy
from Paranal Observatory
This event showed live for the first time how the Very Large Telescope operates from the moment the domes open, in the Atacama Desert, until an image is available on a screen in the control room. An engineer, a telescope operator, and an astronomer (me!) joined forces to observe the Orion Nebula with FORS2, in UT1, and answer many questions from the audience about this amazing process.
Pint of Science and Couch of Science
I was heavily involved in Pint of Science Belgium for several years. I started as a speaker in the 2018 edition in Antwerp, but in 2019, I became part of the Leuven team as Event Organizer. In 2020, I was the City Coordinator of Pint of Science Leuven, but since the pandemic made us cancel the festival, we created and hosted Couch of Science, a YouTube Channel that offered weekly science talks from home for months.
Science Figured Out
Science Figured Out is an initiative of SciMingo, a non-profit organisation to promote science and technology in Flanders and bring science closer to the citizens. I participated in 2020 and presented my PhD in a short and accessible pitch.
Other events and initiatives
- I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Spanish Edition of astroEDU, an open-access award-winning platform hosted by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education.
- I have contributed to NASA’s Universe of Learning as a Subject-Matter Expert in Stellar Evolution and content reviewer.
- I've participated actively in Skype a Scientist.
Other highlighted outreach talks
- Invited speaker at the Casa de las Ciencias in Logroño to commemorate World Space Week.
- Invited by the Spanish Embassy in Chile to give an outreach talk about “Cosmic dances” at the Spanish Cultural Center in Santiago.
- Invited speaker at a Talk Cosmic To Me event.
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