I am a passionate speaker who enjoys engaging in conversations about bats and wildlife in general. Here are some featured speaking events, each of which has been a wonderful opportunity to connect with others and exchange ideas.
November 2024: Panel discussion on urban wildlife at the Berlin Science week 2024.
October 2023: Presentation at the “Schönheit der Vielfalt” event of the Hamburger Horizonte about the beautiful world of bats.
April 2022: Talk about urban bats at the Platform Biodiversity South Tyrol, Bozen, South Tyrol and about wildlife in urban areas at radio Rai Südtirol, interviewed by Karin Duregger.
December 2020: Madlen Ziege, a biologist, artist and author in Berlin, invited me to her podcast series ‘Die Sendung mit der Ziege‘. You can find more about Madlen’s work here.
November 2020: Virtual talk month! This month, I gave a talk about my research at State Studio which is an art-science gallery and event space in Berlin and a talk at the NABU ‘Fachgruppe Säugetiere‘ (mammal group) in Berlin.
August 2020: Webinar month! Together with GBatNet, Tigga Kingston, Joanna Coleman and Ewan Macdonald we organized a webinar about bats in the media. Four excellent panelists (Liliana Dàvalos, Alex Morss, Adam Hart and Tigga Kingston) and a superb host (Dan Riskin) were providing advice about how to ensure balanced and acurate reporting. If you missed it (it was actually on the 31st July), you can find it here. Christian Voigt and I were also invited by ‘Bats without borders’ to give a webinar on the 12th August about bats and wind energy. Bats without borders is an organization dedicated to conserving bats, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems within southern Africa’s changing landscapes. Every second Wednesday, they are running a webinar on specific topics related to bat conservation and to share current research methods and findings. Upcoming webinars can be found here.
November 2019: Joined another wonderful event by Soapbox Science Berlin as a speaker. This time it was in collaboration with Mind the Lab and we shared our research in Berlin metro stations.
July 2019: I gave my very first keynote presentation at the IBRC in Thailand called ‘All eyes on bats – Why understanding people benefits bat conservation’. Thanks to Paul Bates and Pipat Soisook, I had the opportunity to talk about the topic I am mostly passionate about: Human Dimensions of Wildlife; and in this specific context of course about bats! A short clip about the conference can be found here.
June 2019: Joined Soapbox Science Berlin as a speaker on Alexanderplatz. Soapbox Science is a wonderful initiative which started 2011 in London and aims to transform for a short time public places in places of learning and scientific discussions between the public and female scientists.
November 2018: On 16th November 2018, I was part of the Story Telling Show by Diane Neiman: ‘Gravity: encounters with uncontrollable forces‘. One week after the official science week, 8 scientists from different disciplines were on stage to share a personal story about their life in science. My story: ‘Confessions of a bat lover’ in which I spoke about my love for bats, working together with like minded people and traveling the world; but also the challenges that a life in academia can hold.
April 2018: City Nature Challenge, Berlin: my colleagues (Anne Berger and Sarah Kiefer) and I presented our work on urban wildlife and citizen science at the IZW as part of the City Nature Challenge in Berlin.