Outreach

Science should help us to develop a coherent picture of ourselves, our society and nature. So it is a basic human need. Just as anyone can develop philosophical thoughts, and almost everyone does at some basic level, so can anyone be a scientist. I see society as a whole as an extension of the group of people who are fortunate enough to be able to work scientifically. In order to do justice to the nature of science as a societal endeavor, it must be communicated and society as a whole must be given a say.

Some more details (in German) about my general approach to outreach can be found in an interview that I gave for Wissenschaftskommunikation.de.

Sciddle

Together with Anne Braun (cinematographer), Anne Dippel (anthropologist), Britta Kussin (graphic artist) and Thomas Klose (string theorist), I have created the game Sciddle, which can be used for science communication, in particular in classrooms. Several versions exist to date including Physics (university level), Physik (German, school level), KULT (German, Kulturwissenschaften Hochschulniveau) and Klima (Germany, school level) which can be found as browser games on the Sciddle website. The Klima version can also be found on the website of Scientists for Future. We have also printed several editions already and distributed more than 400 games at schools for free. A new edition of 1800 copies has been printed of which 1200 copies will be distributed to schools in the states of Lower Saxony and Bremen. At the moment, we are working on a version of Sciddle focused on quantum mechanics for the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025 [link].

Video Abstracts

I have produced video abstracts for some of my research articles that are embedded on the journal website and some can be found on youtube.

Colors of Quantum Frontiers

I have organized an outreach project together with Niels Weijer (choreographer, dancer), Michael Tuttle (musician, visual artist) and Gregor Pieplow (quantum physicist) funded by the Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers: link. In this project, quantum physics and gravity have been taken as inspiration for a dance performance with two illuminated rings and combined with an outreach talk given by me. The project has been documented in a podcast by journalist Summer Banks. The dance performance has been also documeted in a short film by cinematographer Anne Braun.

School talks

I give talks at schools about my research topics and the work as a researcher in general. See for example this article that a pupil wrote about my visit to their school: link (in german). Contact me if you are a teacher or student in Berlin and are interested in a presentation for and discussion with your class.

I have a profile on ring-a-scientist which can be used to contact researchers for outreach activities, e.g. by schools, museums, journalists.

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