Professional experience & Education
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021-2024: CoFish project coordinator, University of Geneva
2018- present: free-lance science communicator. Past projects include evaluation of COSMOS exhibition.
2020: project coordinator catta citizen science and science communication. Work on scripts and animations of films on education for the Bold Blog in collaboration with Kurzgesagt. Example work
2018- 2020: science policy advisor at SCNAT (Swiss Academy of Sciences): projects on research culture (We Scientists 2035 workshops) and outreach events on new gene technology .
2017: Logistics coordination Museomix CH event
2015-2017: Science communicator at Musée cantonal de zoologie, Lausanne. Parasites exhibition: content development, educational and outreach programme .
2016: Project manager creation of scientific story for Mystères de l'UniL, science festival 2016 edition
2012- 2017: Postdoctoral research in host-parasite interactions Université de Lausanne
2011-2012: Citizen science coordinator, University of Bern, Switzerland
2009-2010: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Ecology, University of Jena, Germany
FACILITATING & Teaching
2019-2024
Science communication workshops for Bachelor Minor in Sustainability Science, University Bern
2022, 2024
National Kapodistrian University, Athens: Science communication lectures and workshop
2017
Mentor at Exposure science film hackathon
Facilitator EvoKE meeting "evolution in informal learning environments"
2016
Facilitator "Science Hackathon"
BOARD MEMBER
2018- 2022: EuroScitizen COST Action Chair
2016- present: Co-founding board member EvoKE Evolutionary Knowledge for Everyone
2016-2017: The Catalyst Theater's Museums' representative
EDUCATION
2005-2009: PhD thesis. "The evolutionary ecology of Leucocytozoon blood parasites", Imperial College London.
2001-2004: 1st class Honours, BSc in Biology, Imperial College, London
AWARDS & GRANTS
2020: CHF10’000 Mercator Grant for CoFish workshops
2018- roughly € 140 000/ year 2018-2022. EuroScitizen COST Action- Chair.
€ 18 000 from ESEB for EvoKE 2017 conference
€ 2000 for infographic on the history of evolutionary thought, available here in four languages
PRESENTATIONS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, workshops
2024
Panelist citizen science round table- Open Science Days
2023
CitSciHelvetia: Theory of change tool demonstration
2022
ECSA: Co-creating a research project with fishers for sustainable lake fisheries!
Rencontres de l’Eau: “Soutenir les pêcheurs du Léman en co-créant un projet de recherche”
Conservation Day, plenary “ CoFish: a co-created journey between scientists and fishers”
2020
Open Innovation in Life Sciences, virtual, panelist “Scientists & Society- let’s talk”
2019
Open Innovation in Life Sciences, ETH, panelist on “Open Science” round table
2018
Ecsite 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: "Public engagement with evolution: going beyond giraffes and genes"
ECSA 2018: "Introducing the EvoKE network & the EuroScitizen COST Action", Geneva, Switzerland.
Citizen Science for Education Workshop, Leysin, Switzerland: The EvoKE network, citizen science and education.
2017
Invited speaker: "Gaming as a tool for education": Imaginasciences, Annecy, France
Invited speaker: "hackathons to do and communicate science", Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, Lausanne
Talk: "Science speed-dating as an outreach tool" at "We scientists shape science" conference, Bern
2016
Panelist: Young scientists debate synthetic biology, LS2 conference, Lausanne