Latest projects

Schools against fake news for a cooler future

Empower teachers in 4 European countries: Portugal, Spain, France and Greece to apply an innovative citizen science project in their secondary school classrooms to report, analyse and debunk fake news related to climate change.

CoFish

CoFish was a four year SNSF funded research project where we co-created research with fishers from Lake Geneva. After a series of co-creation workshops we elaborated the research question, methodology and sampled the lake for total phosphorus and available phosphorus.

EuroScitizen COST Action

EuroScitizen (2018-2022) was a transdisciplinary COST Action that aimed to develop a better understanding and promote tools that foster a greater scientific literacy in evolution.

EvoKE Evolutionary Knowledge for everyone

I am co-founder of EvoKE, an organisation focusing on promoting evolutionary knowledge and understandingI am co-founder of EvoKE, an organisation focusing on promoting evolutionary knowledge and understanding

Portfolio

St-Valentin scientifique

The annual Biology conference speed-dating event this time was on Valentine's Day!

Scientific Speed-dating @Nacht der Forschung

This time, there were more than 30 researchers and over 150 members of the public! The topics covered were Biology, Space science, geology, psychology, linguistics and medicine.

Rendez-vous Forschung

At the 2017 Biology conference, speed-dating scientifique became RDV Forschung and started speaking German in Bern!

Speed-dating scientifique Biology '16 conference

I organised a scientist-public speed-dating event at the Biology '16 conference

Escape Game in Parasites ! exhibition

In 2016, I created with the science theatre group, The Catalyst, an escape game in the Parasites ! exhibition.

Parasites ! L'exposition qui démange

I developed part of the content for the exhibition Parasites ! that took place at the Zoology Museum in Lausanne in 2016-2017. I was also involved in developing the event series and educational content.

Science Hackathon @ Univercité

In November 2016, I co-organised a transdisciplinary science hackathon.

Blue Butterfly Play

In 2015, The Catalyst theatre group was awarded an SNF Agora grant to make a play. With theatre professionals and a playwright we co-created a play on parasites, life as a female researcher, family life and much more. The play was a festival of the senses. I was involved in the writing and acted the role of a mad scientist, a cancer cell and a deranged child.

Invent your own city!

In 2016, I created the scientific story for a science festival where thousands of children had to vote for their future city!

Exposure Film Hackathon

In 2017, I was lucky enough to be invited by the Exposure team to be a mentor for their hackathon. My team made a film on tardigrades. I enjoyed it so much I am going back to mentor at two more events this year.

EvoKE

The EvoKE network (Evolutionary Knowledge for Everyone) started in 2017 with a kick-off meeting in Porto. With over 250 members from more than 30 countries, we are also happy to have been awarded a European COST Action to continue our work.

Lausanne capitale de l'évolution

In August 2015, I organised 4 public outreach initiatives as part of the ESEB (European Society for Evolutionary Biology) conference. These included a scientific speed-dating event, a workshop on evolution education for teachers and faculty, a tweet chat and questions of the day where scientists answered the general public's questions.

SCNAT bicentenary

In 2015, I ran a live demo of my field methods for all interested in what I did as a scientist.

We Scientists 2035

As part of my work at the Swiss Academy of Sciences I developed a workshop on research culture

Events on genetic research

As part of my work at the Swiss Academy of Sciences I designed dialogue events to bring together scientists, sceptics and other members of the interested pubic.