Outreach
Our team of astronomers has won the Academic Year Prize 2007/2008! With the 100,000 euros we won we are going to put our plan to work: teaching high school students and the general public about infrared astronomy.
Advise boards
Dutch organisations have a high degree of co-determination. At universities in the Netherlands you can thus participate in determining policy at a range of levels. At this moment I am in the "Opleidings Commissie" - which literally translates into Education Council, but is perhaps more appropriately termed Curriculum Council - for Astronomy and have been in the Philosophy OC for the year 2007/2008. In this council we guard the quality of courses and of the curriculum in general and also give advise to the Faculty Board and Council on other issues.
Apart from this official position I take part in several student councils where students from different councils meet to discuss Faculty or University wide problems. At this moment I participate in FEBO, NSOS and Betastuf meetings.



