Anna Rosen, Ph.D.Computational Astrophysicist

Outreach

Astronomy, out loud

Public lectures, science-centre events, career panels, and programs for community-college and transfer students — the audiences I care most about reaching, because one of them is where I started.

Anna Rosen mid-talk in a classroom, pointing at a projected slide reading “Massive stars are the main contributors of heavy elements through nuclear fusion and their explosive deaths”, with a plot of elemental abundance against atomic mass and a periodic table.
Talking about where the elements come from — the short answer being massive stars, which is also what I spend my research life on.

I transferred to a four-year university from Los Angeles Pierce College, so the talks I most want to give are the ones I would have wanted to hear then: not “look how vast the universe is”, but how anyone actually finds any of this out.

If you run a school, a club, a science centre or a community-college program and want a talk on massive stars, star clusters, or what it is like to do computational science for a living, please get in touch.

Selected engagements 19

The complete record, alongside teaching and service, is on the CV.