Teaching

• MESA summer school -- Lecturer on 'Binary stellar evolution' – (June 2026 Wyoming, USA)
• The School on Gravity -- Lectures on `Black Holes and Neutron Stars' at The Center of Gravity - (June 2026 Copenhagen, Den)
• Msc class: 'Advanced Stellar and Binary Evolution', Co-led instructor: Dr. Onno Pols, (Fall 2025, 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: