Public Outreach

I consider scientific outreach not just an important part of being a scientist, it is also one of my great passions. Outreach does not only involve engaging people in critical thinking about the potentials and risks of robots. It especially means creating a fascination towards robots in children, especially in young girls, and thereby influencing their later choice of study is an excellent opportunity to create a diversity in the Computer Science and robotics community.

Open Teaching Material

"I believe in open science and accessible teaching materials. During the pandemic, I used the opportunity to create a series of pre-recorded lectures on YouTube, which are still available. Though I no longer maintain the channel, the videos have accumulated thousands of views over the years.

Media and Newspaper Features

Over the years, I was interviewed by a couple of newspapers, radio shows and podcasts, both on a regional and national level in Germany as well as in Sweden. Most recently, I was featured in the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, a regional newspaper from Brandenburg, Germany, as well as in the Netzpolitik.org Podcast about Artificial Intelligence.

Soapbox Science Berlin

Soapbox Science is a novel public outreach platform for promoting women and non-binary scientists and the science they do. In 2022, I was selected to be one of the speakers at the Berlin Soapbox Science event. I brought a couple of robots with me, and talked about why scientists care to make robots that play soccer, and why it is still such a hard task for them to master.

Tabula Rasa - Wissenschaft zum Anfassen

As part of the Berlin Science Week, Urania Berlin organized a poster session for Berlin-based scientists to showcase their research to the general public. With the RoboCup Humanoid Soccer team 01. RFC Berlin I presented the first prototype of our new robot platform and our simulated robots doing a live penalty shoot-out in the simulated environment from the virtual RoboCup world championship 2021. Apart from hundreds of visitors we even had the mayor of the city stop by and say hi!

Girls' Day is an annual event where students explore fields where their gender is underrepresented. Since women are still a minority in computer science, many university departments host one-day projects to showcase the field. In 2021, I organized an online workshop at Freie Universität Berlin with the 01. RFC Berlin RoboCup team, teaching girls to program soccer-playing robots. Previously, I co-organized a Dialogue Systems project at the University of Hamburg (2011) and participated in the RoboCup team Hamburg Bit-Bots project (2010)

Girl's Day

Girl's Day

SciFest is an annual three day science festival for children in Uppsala with more than 8000 visitors. I have organized a booth for the Social Robotics Lab between 2016 and 2020. In our exhibition, children could learn how to program and control a robot or participate in a real scientific experiment.