Outreach

Transmitting our knowledge to the younger generations and to the community outside academia is a duty to our society and to the progress of knowledge that we should do as scientists.

Here you can find some examples of the activities I have been doing over the years:

• “Extrasolar systems”. Training for high school teachers in Córdoba, Argentina. I performed an exhibition talk and produced audio-visual material and some experiments for the professors to teach to their students. 

• “The right to the night sky” is a university outreach project. It is a teaching and learning project about astronomy in which a group of professionals from different disciplines went to juvenile prisons to teach astronomy. “The right to see the sky” (C. Charalambous et al., 2018) is a publication about this experience in Revista Ext., an outreach magazine from Córdoba National University. A link to the website of the project can be found here.

• “Understanding the configuration of observed exoplanets”. I was an invited speaker at the 2nd edition of the Woman and Girls in Science at the University of Namur. 

• “Explorando Mundos Lejanos: Exoplanetas en el Universo y su Representación Cinematográfica”. I was invited to give a talk to the general public in the context of the XVII LARIM, the Latin American Regional IAU Meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay. 

• As part of my outreach and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in science, I co-authored an Opinion Letter in Photonics Focus together with Lorena Ballesteros Ferraz, Sebastién Mouchet, and Riccardo Muolo  “What can PhD students and postdocs do to counter inequalities?”.  In this piece, we reflect on our experiences as early-career researchers and suggest concrete actions individuals can take to help build a more inclusive academic environment.

Some nice experiences