Interactive Outreach Tools #
Beyond traditional outreach and both scientific and public writing, a major part of my science communication involves building interactive visualizations for the cosmology community to use.
My browser-based simulations of the cosmic web and gravitational lensing are publicly available and actively used by colleagues worldwide for teaching and public engagement. For more details on these tools and to explore them live, go here.
Media, Press Coverage & Articles #
- DESI Collaboration Blog — Exploring What DESI Measures: An Interactive Cosmic Web in Your Browser (July 2026). A guest post I contributed to the DESI collaboration, introducing my browser-based Cosmic Web Explorer and showing how its structures line up with DESI’s galaxy maps, including the BAO mode that highlights the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation feature DESI is built to measure. Read the post
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Wired.com — The Emptiest Places in the Universe Might Contain Its Best Secrets (May 2026). Interviewed for Becky Ferreira’s feature about the fundamental properties of cosmic voids, their use in cosmology, and their potential to resolve major cosmological tensions. Read the article
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CNRS France Press Release — DESI finishes initial Y5 survey (April 2026). The release featured a visualization of my Cosmic Web Explorer that compares its visual output with the distribution of galaxies as observed by DESI. Read the release (French only)
Public Talks & Engagement #
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Cosmic Emptiness: What can we learn from the space between galaxies? — ESO Supernova Planetarium in Garching, Germany (September 2024). Delivered an immersive full-dome presentation to an audience of over 100 in German for the “Kosmisches Kino” talk series, guiding the audience through explanatory slides paired with immersive full-dome videos of cosmological simulations and large-scale structure. View event page (German only)
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Community Outreach — Contributor to local and international science outreach events, including engaging the general public at the 4th Azores School on Observational Cosmology and representing the LMU physical cosmology group at prospective student events.
