I greatly value sharing my knowledge and findings with a broader audience and welcome any opportunity to do so. Besides disseminating research output through press releases (see a selection of press articles below), I have given informal seminars for broad audiences such as visitors of the Marine Megafauna Foundation (Tofo, Mozambique), high school teachers as part of the Teacher Professional Development program at Harvard Museum of Natural Hisotry, and visitors of the Harvard Museum of Natural History during National Fossil Day. I am also a member of ODYSSEA, a Luxembourgish association dedicated to raising awareness about marine conservation using science communication and outreach activites.
Press articles featuring our research
Research reveals how mammals adapted their backbones to thrive in water. Research in Brief article from the European Commission about the MSCA-funded Back2Sea project (February 2025). Also available in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Polish
How whales and dolphins adapted for life in the water. Interview and article by Wendy Heywood for the Harvard Gazette about the regionalization of the backbone in cetaceans (October 2024)
The rise and fall of whales. Feature article by Michael Gross for Current Biology on the evolution of whales and mentionning our findings on vertebral regionalization (October 2024)
La espina dorsal de la evolución: cómo la columna vertebral transformó a las ballenas y delfines. Article by Gabriela Aceitón Cortés for Meteored about our findings on vertebral regionalization in cetaceans (October 2024). Also available in German
The land-to-water transition led to a repatterning of the mammal backbone in cetaceans. Behind the Paper blogpost for Nature Research Communities about the regionalization of the backbone in cetaceans (September 2024)
Les cétacés de petite taille ont cassé les codes ancestraux. Interview and article by Laetitia Theunis for the Daily Science about changes in vertebral morphology in dolphins and porpoises (November 2019, in French)
Skeletons, valuable clues to understanding the adaptation of marine mammals to their environment. Press release from the University of Liège (November 2019)