Selected Presentations

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Far-Infrared / sub-mm observations of the strongly irradiated clouds in the Carina Nebula, the nearest laboratory of massive star feedback Talk at the international conference "Science with the Atacama Ptahfinder Experiment", Schloss Ringberg, February 2012

The multiplicity of young OB stars revealed by interferometry Talk at the international conference "Ten years of VLTI: from first fringes to core science", Garching, October 2011

Disks around low-mass stars in extreme environments Talk at the international conference "Formation and Early Evolution of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs", Garching, October 2011

The young stellar population in the Carina Nebula revealed by the Chandra Carina Complex Project Talk at the international conference "The X-ray Universe 2011 ", Berlin, June 2011

A panchromatic view of massive star feedback and triggered star formation in the Carina Nebula Colloquium Talk at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, March 2011

New insights into the innermost regions of protoplanetary accretion disks around young stars with infrared interferometry Invited Talk at the International Meeting "Second Chinese-German Workshop on Star and Planet Formation", Kiel, July 2010

New results from infrared interferometric studies of the innermost parts of protoplanetary accretion disks Talk at the International Meeting "From circumstellar disks to planetary systems", Garching, November 2009

New Observational Constraints on the Formation of Massive Stars from Infrared Interferometry Invited Talk at the International Meeting "The Birth and Influence of Massive Stars", Prague, September 2009

Infrared interferometry of young stellar objects: new insights into the innermost regions of protoplanetary accretion disks Talk at the Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium, Garching, Germany, February 2009

The innermost circumstellar environment of massive young stellar objects revealed by infrared interferometry Talk at the international conference "Massive Star Formation: Observations confront Theory" Heidelberg, Germany, September 2007

Observations of stellar feedback and triggered star formation in OB assocations Colloquium Talk at the Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Munich, Germany, July 2007 and at the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2007

Stellar feedback and triggered star formation in OB assocations Talk at the international conference ''12 Questions on Star and Massive Star Cluster Formation'' ESO Garching, Germany, July 2007

Multiplicity of young stellar objects revealed by infrared interferometry Talk at the international conference ''Multiplicity in Star Formation'' Toronto, Canada, May 2007

Triggered Star Formation in OB Associations Invited Talk at the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, January 2007 and Colloquium Talk at the Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik der Universität Heidelberg, Germany, February 2007

The Origin of the X-ray emission from T Tauri stars Review Talk at the international conference ''Coronae of Stars and Accretion Disks'' Bonn, Germany, December 2006

On Age Spreads in Star Forming Regions

Sequentially Triggered Star Formation in OB Associations Invited Talk at the IAU Symposium 237 ''Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM'' Prague, Czech Republic, August 2006

Infrared Interferometry of Young Stellar Objects Presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy Bonn, Germany, January 2006

X-ray observations of star-forming regions and implications for star and planet formation Invited Talk at the Workshop ''Spitzer's view on star- and planet formation'' of the EU Research & Training Network PLANETS Leiden, Netherlands, November 2005

The low-mass stellar populations in OB Associations Review Talk at the conference ''Protostars and Planets V'' Hawaii, USA, October 2005

VLTI MIDI observations of the Herbig Ae star HR 5999 Contributed Talk at the conference ''The power of optical/IR interferometry: recent scientific results and 2nd generation VLTI instrumentation'' ESO, Garching, April 2005

MIDI Observations of Herbig Ae/Be Stars Lecture at the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Radio and Infrared Astronomy at the University of Bonn Bonn, Germany, September 2004

The Coronae of Very Young Stars: New Insights from the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project Institute Colloquium, Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik Freiburg, Germany, November 2003

X-ray Emission from Brown Dwarfs Review Talk at the IAU Symposium 219 ''Stars as Suns: Activity, Evolution, and Planets'' Sydney, Australia, July 2003

X-ray Activity and Accretion in Young Stellar Objects Review Talk at the International Workshop ''Magnetic fields and star formation: theory versus observations'' Madrid, Spain, April 2003

High-Resolution Infrared Imaging of Young Stellar Objects Presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy Bonn, Germany, December 2002