ESC

Teaching and mentoring

I like teaching astronomy as a practical way of asking better questions. A telescope does not hand us an answer; it hands us data, uncertainty, and a reason to think carefully together.

  • Edinburgh School of Extragalactic Astronomy (June 2025), Organising committee chair and lecturer
    Four lectures on distant-galaxy emission, radiation transfer, telescope proposals, and scientific reading.
  • Summer research supervision (2025-2026), Supervisor
    Mentored undergraduate projects on faint ALMA sources, molecular emission, and the fuel for star formation in distant galaxies.
  • Observational Astronomy Theory and Experiment (September-October 2024), Teaching assistant
    Telescope operations and data-reduction workshops at the Turkana Basin Institute, Kenya.
  • University of Edinburgh undergraduate courses (Academic year 2026-27), Teaching assistant
    Telescope Group Project, Observational Astronomy Lab, Dark Universe, and Discover Astronomy.