Outreach

Science Communication is one of my favourite things! Being a researcher, and a scientist should not only mean sitting on your desk 24/7 and coding. I believe there is no point in doing science if you do not talk about it with someone.

It is always fun to share your knowledge and enthusiasm with peers in your group, academics in other universities and members of the public. In fact, it is always the most fun to talk science with kids, since they ask the best questions, sometimes related to dinosaurs in space!

Being able to inspire people even just a little bit is a great feeling.

AstroSoc - UoB (2017-2020)

As a former committee member of the University of Birmingham Astronomical Society, I have got involved in various outreach events during my time at the University of Birmingham.

We designed a whole set of constellations in collaboration with the Bing Bang Fair which were popular amongst 3 continents, check it out! We stargazed with brownies, visited Old People's Homes and organised countless public guest speaker talks.

Using a planetarium in the middle of the New Street Train Station as a part of British Science Week, and teaching people about my favourite sky objects lies amongst my favourite event that I participated.

AstroSoc Constellations, Credits: UoB AstroSoc

AstroSoc Rockets Night, Credits: UoB AstroSoc

EPS Societie's Fair 2018, Credits: UoB AstroSoc

Physics in the City Event in New Street Train Station

Highlights

Invited Speaker - Making Space Event - LJMU (2023)
To promote Astrophysics and encourage STEM subjects to woman and non-binary individuals, I delivered a talk on my career path, and current extragalactic research.
Guest Speaker - AstroSoc Quarantine Talk Series. (2020)

Delivered a public talk about the lifetime journeys of the famous, retired Spitzer telescope. Here is a link to the talk uploaded on AstroSoc's Youtube Chanel.

Chair/AstroSoc - Outreach Events (winner of the 2019 & 2020 EPS Outreach: Continued Excellence Award)
Secretary/AstroSoc - BSW Exploration and Discovery in Space workshops (winner of the 2018 EPS Outstanding Event Award)

For welcoming 120 school children for British Science Week and running lots of educational events during the day, AstroSoc organized an outstanding event!

Click on the video to watch it on YouTube! (it says Video Unavailable but it is there!)

Projects in Prep.

The Cyprus Project for Girls (2020-present)

This project is still in the proposal and funding stage. This is a collaboration between people from many institutions, led by the founder of Galileo's Voyage, Dr Maria Pavlidou. The project aims to engage and inform teenage girls about cutting-edge aspects of modern physics research, to enrich their education for their future. We aim to increase the confidence of young girls by immersing them in a predominantly female environment and to allow interaction and collaboration between young girls from the two main ethnic groups of Cyprus.My part is to co-lead the project, which I connect the project with universities and academics in Northern Cyprus and organise astronomy workshops.

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