2025
Invited talk at the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt, Germany (in person, March).
2024
Invited guest expert and keynote speaker, the first „Evidence-Based Science Outreach“ network-meeting (funded by the DFG), Braunschweig, Germany
2023
Plenary speaker at the 15th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA 2023), Cappadocia, Turkey, in person.
2023
Keynote Speaker at the 16th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2023), Bengaluru, India, in person.
2023
Invited speaker, the Vienna Public Seminar on Science Communication series, online.
2023
Invited speaker, the London PUS seminar series, online.
2022
Plenary, IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) Suzhou University pre-conference, online.
2022
Southampton Education School Research Seminar Series
The relevancy of science education to public engagement with science
“In recent decades a primary goal of science education has been to prepare non-scientists to make sense of science in their daily lives, to be critical consumers of science information, and to make informed decisions about scientific issues. Indeed, ‘Science education for all’ can be justified if it offers value for all rather than just for the minority who will become scientists. But what is this value? In this talk we will review empirical evidence regarding questions of value and relevancy of science education: how do people use science knowledge in real-life situations? Is science knowledge useful for advocacy? Are science education background and knowledge relevant to COVID-19 decision-making? Does a mandatory science curriculum prepare people to follow science in the media? Do people who refer more to science knowledge and practices side more with the scientific consensus?”
2021
Invited plenary panelist, PCST conference, 2021 (Online, May)
2021
Invited speaker at the Aspen Global Congress on Scientific Thinking and Action in Rome, March 17-20, 2021, organized by the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program (New York, USA) and the Instituto Questão de Ciência (Question of Science Institute) (São Paulo, Brazil), in collaboration with the Aspen Institute Italia (Rome, Italy).
2021
The Field of Science Communication Research, the Institute for Science & Innovation Communication (INSCICO), Germany (Online, January)
2021
Evaluation in Science Communication, Impact Unit team – Wirkung und Evaluation in der Wissenschaftskommunikation, Germany (Online, January)
2020
***Plenary speaker, The international conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology, 31/08- 04/09 2020, Nicosia, Cyprus (ucy.ac.cy/eridob2020). Canceled due to the COVID-19 crisis.
2020
2020- COVID-19 and the Post-Truth Era: the role of facts in public policy International online conference, Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv (online, May)
2018
Invited speaker, the Inaugural Asia-Pacific Science Communication Conference 2018 in conjunction with the 10th-year-anniversary celebration of the ANU-NUS Joint Masters of Science in Science Communication Programme, Singapore, Nov. 19-21, 2018.
2018
Invited Plenary Panellist: What Kinds of Stories about Science should We Tell? PCST conference, Dunedin, NZ, April 3-6, 2018.
2018
Invited speaker, the 12th Forum on the Internationalization of Sciences and Humanities, hosted by the Humboldt Foundation’s International Advisory Board, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 11-12, 2018.
2018
Keynote speaker GDCP conference, Kiel University, Germany, Sept. 16-20, 2018.
2018
Keynote speaker STEAM conference, July 14, 2018. University of Malta.
2017
Invited speaker in The Nobel Prizes and the Public Image of Science, A Symposium at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, May 11-12, 2017
2017
Invited speaker at Kiel Science Outreach Campus (KiSOC), Kiel, Germany, Dec. 3-5, 2017.
2016
Keynote speaker at the 'International Conference on Bridging Edu-Communication Research', co-hosted National Taiwan Science Education Center (NTSEC) and Science Education Center, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNUSEC) Taipei, Taiwan, December 2-3, 2016.
2013
Invited expert speaker for the American National Academies Committee on Communicating Chemistry in Informal Environments. “What is known about public interaction with web-based science communication resources?”, Washington, DC (online one-hour lecture and discussion, August 5th, 2013)