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