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"Self Interacting Dark Matter" : a cosmo-psychological thriller in 9 minutes
Creating this film was such a fascinating and exciting experience--I learned so much, got to know a lot of really wonderful and talented folks, and also got to flex some creative and problem solving muscles I hadn't before. Like, I got to be on a ...
Post · September 19, 2025
Phd defense of Alexander Nellessen
On the 18th of September Alexander defended his doctoral thesis dealing with the study of modified vanadia catalysts employed to remove NOx from exhaust gas streams. His work was done in the group of Prof. Per-Anders Carlsson and I was acting as c...
Post · September 19, 2025
OptofluidiX 2025 conference
OptofluidiX 2025, a conference locally hosted at the University of Leipzig from Falko Schmidt, Frank Cichos and Detlev Belder has just ended.
We look back at 2.5 days packed with forefront research within optofluidics, combining novel optical ima...
Post · September 19, 2025
Making Space for Uncertainty in Professional Development
Ask teachers about professional development (PD) and you are likely to be met with a shrug or a grimace, but as Ann Webster-Wright has argued, there is a revealing gap between teachers’ rhetoric about professional development and their own experie...
Post · September 17, 2025
A Day on the Antarctic Shelf
During the summer months, sunlight is a constant in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean surrounding our driest continent. It was during this season, in 2016, that I had the amazing opportunity to join the SANAE 56 relief voyage to Antarctica as a sh...
Post · September 16, 2025