science communication

VR visualizations. Click here to see the Universe from the perspective of the Planck satellite. Use your mouse to drag the visualisation around or, if you have a smartphone and a VR viewer, immerse yourself in them! Also available in Galician.

Public talks.

  • “DESI y la energía oscura ¿El fin de la constante cosmológica?” Amautas educational platform. 9/2025.
  • Public talk and interviews with high school students as part of the QuarkNet — Physics in and Through Cosmology program. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA. 6/2025.
  • “Unha ollada cosmolóxica ao pasado (e futuro) do Universo”. Asociación Cultural Alexandre Bóveda, A Coruña. 12/2023.
  • “Pasado, presente y futuro del Universo”. Centro de Ciencias Pedro Pascual, Benasque. 8/2023.
  • “Noites escuras, ideas brillantes: as revolucións cosmolóxicas do s.XX”. III Encontro da Noite, A Coruña. 5/2022.
  • “Pasado, presente e futuro do Universo”. Planetario da Casa das Ciencias, A Coruña. 12/2021.
  • “Revealing the origin and fate of the Universe with gravitational lensing”. Lester B. Pearson United World College, BC. 11/2021.
  • “Nuevos horizontes en la investigación del fondo cósmico de microondas”. XXIV Congreso Estatal de Astronomía, A Coruña. 10/2021.
  • “Revealing the origin and fate of our Universe with gravitational lensing”. Cambridge University Astronomical Society. 2/2021.
  • “Gravitational lensing: a window to the invisible Universe”. Public talk, IoA, Cambridge. 2/2020.
  • “Our Utterly Wonderful Cosmos”. Friday Night Lecture, Atlantic College UWC, Wales. 11/2019.
  • “Telescopes as time machines”. Outreach talks series, IoA, Cambridge. 5/2019.

Media. I have been interviewed by and contributed to several radio shows and podcasts:

  • Printed press interviews with La Voz de Galicia, GCiencia and Sermos on DESI DR2 results. 3/2025.
  • Recurring participant on the Efervesciencia show, Radio Galega. Topics include DESI DR2 results (3/2025), “Earendel, a estrela máis lonxana” (3/2022), and “O Universo é un panettone” (2/2022).
  • Despierta Aragón, Radio Aragón. 8/2023.
  • QuarkNet — Physics in and Through Cosmology summer program for high school students, LBNL. 6/2023.
  • A noite é necesaria, Con Voz, RadioVoz. 11/2021 and 12/2021.
  • Testigos no tempo podcast, Luis Seoane Foundation, A Coruña. 5/2020.
  • “Un Universo en evolución” — talk & conversation with middle school kids. Área de Galego, Instituto Español Cañada Blanch. London, UK. 11/2016.

Other.

  • Staffed a cosmology outreach table at the Berkeley farmer’s market. 11/2024.
  • “The Microwave Secrets of Our Universe, Young and Old: Virtual Reality visualizations of data from the Planck Space Observatory”. Chabot Space & Science Center. Oakland, CA. 2/2023.
  • “Campus de estrelas” — developed virtual reality visualisations (Galician/English) for the Aulas Galegas teaching platform.
  • Outreach program volunteer. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. 2017–2021.