Teaching

  • MESA summer school -- Lecturer on 'Binary stellar evolution' – (June 2026 Wyoming, USA)
    • Lecture materials: "Binary stars: It Takes Two to Tango"
  • The School on Gravity -- Lectures on `Black Holes and Neutron Stars' at The Center of Gravity - (June 2026 Copenhagen, Den)
    • Lecture materials: "Hunting for Black Holes and Neutron Stars"
  • Msc class: 'Advanced Stellar and Binary Evolution', together with Dr. Onno Pols
    • Fall 2025, Fall 2026 Radboud University
  • 2-day MESA hackathon: A first taste of MESA – IAU general assembly meeting - Lead instructor (August 2024 Cape Town, SA)
    All material from this hackathon is freely available online here

  • Graduate class: ASTRON 204 'Stellar Astrophysics'; Harvard University - Teaching Fellow for Prof. Charlie Conroy (Fall 2021)
  • Undergraduate class: ASTRON 120 'Stellar Physics'; Harvard University - Teaching Fellow for Prof. Selma de Mink (Spring 2020)
  • Msc class: 'High energy astrophysics'; Amsterdam University - Teaching Assistant for Dr. Phil Uttley (Spring 2019)
  • Msc class: 'Modern Astronomical Research'; Leiden University - Teaching Assistant for Prof. Simon Portegies Zwart (Spring 2017)

Paper Doodles

As part of the Advanced Stellar and Binary Evolution course, students are asked to summarize a scientific paper in a “doodle version”, a creative way to distill the key ideas of a paper that was originally developed by Claire Lamman! Below are some of examples that stood out for their clarity and creativity:

Sophia Baker

Levi van Krimpen

Koen Essers

Ilse de Roo