Centre for ExoLife Sciences (CELS)

Outreach

During recent years, we have participated in various talks, panel discussions, online lectures and radio broadcasts over the past years. A selection of our activities is listed here:

Poster presentations at the EANA conference in Madrid (18-22 September 2023)
- 'syntos: A theoretical model of star and exoplanet emission spectra' - Azzurra d'Alessandro
- 'Volatile organic compounds from halophilic Greenlandic bacteria as potential biomarkers of life on exoplanets' - Miguel Angel Salinas García

Presentation at the EANA conference in Madrid (18-22 September 2023); 'Unavoidable Extinctions in Ecosystems
of Extreme Isolation' - Eftychia Symeondou

Poster presentation at Bageco 2023 Symposium, Copenhagen (26-30 June 2023); 'Effect of salt on the BVOC production of three Greenlandic halotolerant bacteria'; Miguel Ángel Salinas García

Press coverage following the article 'Orbital period change of Dimorphos due to the DART kinetic impact' | Nature (1 March 2023)

Interview in ScienceNews.dk: 'Satellite nudged an asteroid slightly – but enough to save Earth' (9 April 2023); with Uffe Gråe Jørgensen
Podcast interview in sciencestories.dk: 'DART ændrede asteroides retning i rummet' (in Danish; 21 April 2023); with Uffe Gråe Jørgensen
Interview on Niels Bohr Institute’s website: First ever asteroid hit by spacecraft could save the Earth from impact (18 April 2023); with Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Article in ScienceNews.dk Models of hot exoplanets can help us better understand Earth's climate change (1. January 2023) - interview with Uffe Gråe Jørgensen and Aaron David Schneider

Talk at the EGU General Assembly 2022 Observational implications on the presence of selected bioaerosols in exoplanetary atmospheres - (26 May 2022) Miguel Garrido Zornoza, Namiko Mitari, Jan Olaf Haerter

Participation in Podcast 'RumSnak' from DR Danish Broadcasting Cooperation: 'Sorte huller på springtur gennem galaksen' (3 October 2022) - Michael Andersen, Uffe Gråe Jørgensen (in Danish)

Poster presentation at the 13th International Congress on Extremophiles (18-22 September 2022) in Loutraki, Greece 'Temperature and perchlorate effects on the metabolic activity of Deinococcus radiodurans' - Eftychia Symeonidou

Poster presentation at The International Conference on Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research, Bilbao 'Calculation of Cold Infrared Spectra Water Dimer' (12-15 September, 2022) - Emil Vogt, Irén Simkó, Attila G. Császár, Henrik G. Kjærgaard

Presentation at KU's BIO conference, Copenhagen: 'The influence of life on extraterrestrial atmospheres' (28 August 2022) - Miguel Angel Salinas García

Article on Niels Bohr Institutes' website 'Free roaming black hole detected in our galaxy for the first time' (13 June 2022) - Uffe Gråe Jørgensen - press coverage following a publication of Kailash C. Sahu, [..], U.G. Jørgensen, [..], et al., 2022

Talk at Atoms, Molecules and Clusters in Motion conference (AMOC), Helsinki, 'Spectroscopy and Gibbs Energy of Bimolecular Complexes' (6-10 June 2022) - Henrik G. Kjaergaard

Talk at Atoms, Molecules and Clusters in Motion conference (AMOC), Helsinki: 'Vibrational Band Shapes in Hydrogen Bound Complexes: From Jet-Cooled to Room Temperature' (6-10 June 2022) - Emil Vogt and Henrik G. Kjaergaard

Poster presentation at the Annual Danish Astronomy Meeting, Fredericia: 'Cloud formation and cloud properties in Exoplanet atmospheres' (30-31 May, 2022) - Azzurra d'Alessandro

Participation in panel discussion 'Er Vi Alene' at the Bloom Festival on Nature and Science, Copenhagen (27 May 2022) - Anders Priemé and Uffe Gråe Jørgensen (in Danish)

Poster presentations at AASTCS 9: Exoplanets IV Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada: 'Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets'; 'The Deep Atmospheres of Hot Gas Giants'; 'MARCS models for cloudy hot-Jupiters' (1-6 May, 2022) - Flavia Amadio, Aaron David Schneider, Beatriz Campos Estrada

Contribution with bacteria, walk-and-talk presentations and consulting to the exposition 'The world Is In You' at the Medical Museion (30 September 2021 - 16 January 2022) - Anders Priemé and Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Article in Science News 'Planets with many neighboors might be the best places to look for life' (16 November 2020) - press coverage following a publication of Nanna Bach-Møller and Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Article on Niels Bohr Institutes' website 'The Solar System follows the Galactic standard, but it is a Rare Breed' (30 November 2020) - press coverage following a publication of Nanna Bach-Møller and Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Participation in panel discussion on 'Life in Space' at Science Faction: Liv i Rummet (20 October 2021) - Anders Priemé, Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Article in Sciencenews.dk 'Danske forskere finder fjerne planeter med gammel kikkert fra 1975' (13 September 2021) - press coverage following a publication of Iona Kondo, [..] Uffe Gråe Jørgensen et al

Contribution at the Planetarium's Science Slam, where Anders Priemé explained more on his work at the CELS NNF project (4 June 2021) - Anders Priemé

Online Lecture on the discovery of the first known Earth-like exoplanet, from the Danish telescope in Chile for ESO - Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Online Lecture on exoplanets at NBI's ScienceXplorer - Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Online Lecture on the origin of water on Earth at NBI's ScienceXplorer - Uffe Gråe Jørgensen (in Danish)

Radio broadcast on extraterrestrial life at Den2Radio - Uffe Gråe Jørgensen (in Danish)

Radio broadcast on science and religion at Den2Radio - Uffe Gråe Jørgensen (in Danish)

Participation in various Radio broadcasts on the origin of exoplanets, stars, our own solar system, and life itself at Radio Shalom - Uffe Gråe Jørgensen (in Danish)