Curriculum Vitae Conny Aerts

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1 Personalia

Name: Conny Clara Aerts

Date and place of birth: 26/01/1966, Brasschaat (Belgium) Home Address: Marie Popelinlaan 10

B – 3001 Heverlee Belgium

Phone +32/16/35.56.05

Work Address: Celestijnenlaan 200D Office 200D03.29 B – 3001 Leuven Belgium Phone +32/16/32.70.28 Fax +32/16/32.79.99 Email: [email protected] Webpage: https://fys.kuleuven.be/ster/staff/conny-aerts Marital Status: Married

Spouse: Prof. Dr. Geert Molenberghs Date of marriage: 29/09/1990

Children: An Molenberghs, 12/07/1994, Borgerhout (Belgium) Jasper Molenberghs, 20/2/1998, Leuven (Belgium)

2 Studies

2.1 Bachelor and Master Studies: October 1984 – July 1988

• July 1988: Master in Mathematics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

• July 1988: Teacher Diploma for secondary school, Mathematics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

• July 1986: Bachelor in Mathematics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

2.2 PhD Studies: 1/10/1988-30/9/1994

• 6-year University Research Assistantship (including a task of 6 hours teaching assistance/week) at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

• Title of PhD thesis: ”Line-Profile Variations in B stars. Mode Identification with the Moment Method”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. C. Waelkens.

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2.3 Personal Training after PhD

• Participation in the International 2-day Seminar on “Integrating mainstreaming and an equal oppor-tunity dimension into the personnel policy of the public sector”, European Commission’s 4th Action programme on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women, 28/1/1999 in Brussels & 21/6/1999 in Leu-ven, Belgium.

• 2000: Participant in the 1-day training course “Women in Academiae”, SEIN Centre on diversity, (in)equality, identity and inclusion, UHasselt, Belgium.

• 21/3/2007: 1-day training “Mentor-Mentee activities in practice”, SEIN Centre on diversity, (in)equality, identity and inclusion, UHasselt, Belgium.

• 2011: 15 hours training in “Organisation and Function Design” as member of the Board of the De-partment of Physics & Astronomy. Trainer: Simona Hollinger, Director Business Solutions at Hay Group: a global management consulting firm that works with leaders of organisations to transform and implement new personnel strategies.

• Participant in “The 2nd MESA summer school”, 12 – 16/8/2013, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

• 12 & 20/5/2015: 2-day training course “Migrating old to modern Fortran code”, KU Leuven. Lec-turers: Dr. Gert-Jan Bex, Flemish Supercomputer Centre, Belgium and Dr. Reinhold Bader, Leibniz RechenZentrum (LRZ), Garching, Germany.

3 Job Positions

3.1 Current Positions and Duties

• Since 1/8/2014: Vice-Dean Communication & Outreach, Faculty of Science (consisting of 5 Depart-ments), University of Leuven, Belgium

• Since 1/8/2011: Director, Institute of Astronomy, University of Leuven, Belgium (some 50 FTEs)

• Since 1/10/2001: Head of Research Unit “Asteroseismology and Variable Stars”, University of Leu-ven (some 15 FTEs: PhD students, postdocs, engineers)

• Since 1/10/2007: 100% Full Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium

• Since 1/4/2004: 20% Professor by special appointment, leading the Chair “Asteroseismology”, at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

3.2 Past Positions and Duties

• 1/8/2011 – 31/7/2014: Member, Departmental Board, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Univer-sity of Leuven, Belgium

• 1/10/2004 – 30/9/2007: Associate Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium

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3.3 Temporary Positions: 1/10/1994 – 1/10/2001

• From 2/2011 – 1/2014: 5% Professor Astrophysics at Hasselt University, Belgium

• 1/10/1994 – 30/9/2001: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders (FWO)

(pregnancy and parental leave during 10 months)

• January – February 2001: “Julius” Guest Lecturer, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

4 Membership of scientific organizations

• Member of the Royal (Flemish) Academy for Sciences and the Arts of Belgium (elected in 2011) • Honorary Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, UK (elected in 2010)

• Member of the Belgian National Committee of Astronomy (elected in 2004)

• Belgian member of Division G: “Stars and Stellar Physics” of the International Astronomical Union (elected in 2000)

• Member of the European Astronomical Society • Member of the American Astronomical Society

• Member of the Dutch Astronomical Society • Member of the Dutch Physical Society

• Member of the Astronomical Society of Flanders, Belgium • Member of Amateur Observatory URANIA, Hove, Belgium

• Member of the Society of Academic Personnel of Leuven University, Belgium

5 Scientific Prizes and Awards

• 2012 recipient of the Francqui Prize (also termed “Belgian Nobel Prize”) handed over by His Majesty The King of Belgium Albert II on 13 June 2012

http://www.francquifoundation.be/ang/laureat en.htm

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• Main actor, 40-min. scientific documentary “De Sprekende Ster”/“Paroles d’´etoile” broadcasted by overLeven, CANVAS/VRT and Mati`eres Grises, RTBF (these are the Belgian national TV stations, Flemish and Walloon Branch), 2004-2005. The movie presents the results of Aerts et al., 2003, Science, Vol. 300, 1926.

The documentary was Award Winner, Scinema Festival, Sydney, Australia, 08/2006. It also won the Bronze Medal, Beijing, China, Scientific Film Festival, 02/2007.

• 26 i`eme Prix biennale Paul & Marie Stroobants, Acad´emie Royale des Sciences, des lettres & des

beaux-arts, Royal Academy of Belgium, French-speaking branch, 2003. The award text reads: “For her ensemble of work in asteroseismology, and in particular for her recent study of the star HD 129929 published in the prestigious journal Science”.

• 1998 Kiwanis Club Award: best post-doctoral researcher in Science & Technology of the University of Leuven. This is a yearly contest among the post-doctoral researchers with less than 5 year postdoc experience judged by the Research Council of the University of Leuven.

• 1995 Biennial prize “Henry Van der Linden”, Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgi¨e, Royal Academy of Belgium, Flemish branch.

6 Research Topics

Stellar physics, stellar structure and evolution, astrostatistics, space science, asteroseismology, variable stars, non-radial oscillations, tidal oscillations, interior rotation of stars, convective overshooting in stars, time-series analysis, supervised classification methods, close binary stars, high-resolution spectroscopy, multi-colour photometry, high-precision space photometry, spectroscopic line-profile variations, pulsation mode identification methods.

Detailed studies of Cep stars, slowly pulsating B stars, Scuti stars, Doradus stars, Be stars, OB supergiants, subdwarf B stars, magnetic stars, rotational variables, etc.

The reader is referred to the full publication list for the achievements in these various research fields.

7 Ten most important publications with leading role by C. Aerts

For the full publication list, we refer to Section 17.

This information was deduced from Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.be/ on 1 August 2015

1. Aerts, C., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Kurtz, D.W., 2010, Monograph “Asteroseismology”, Series:

Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. ISBN: 978-1-4020-5178-4, 866 pages (286 citations, refereed book)

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2. Aerts C., Thoul A., Daszy´nska J., Scuflaire R., Waelkens C., Dupret M. A., Niemczura E., Noels A., 2003, “Asteroseismology of HD 129929: Core Overshooting and Nonrigid Rotation”,Science, 300, 1926 – 1928 (154 citations, SCI impact factor 31.477)

This paper reports the first detection of nonrigid rotation in a star different from the Sun, based on 21 years of data gathering.

3. Aerts C., de Pauw M., Waelkens C., 1992, “Mode identification of pulsating stars from line profile

variations with the moment method. an example - The Beta Cephei star Delta Ceti”,Astronomy and

Astrophysics, 266, 294 – 306 (224 citations, SCI impact factor 4.479)

This paper describes new methodology for the identification of pulsation modes from high-resolution spectroscopy developed in the framework of the PhD thesis of C. Aerts.

4. Degroote P., Aerts C., Baglin A., Miglio A., Briquet M., Noels A., Niemczura E., Montalban J., Bloemen S., Oreiro R., Vuˇckovi´c M., Smolders K., Auvergne M., Baudin F., Catala C., Michel E., 2010, “Deviations from a uniform period spacing of gravity modes in a massive star”,Nature, 464, 259 – 261 (64 citations, SCI impact factor 42.351)

First observational proof of inhomogeneous mixing in the near-core region of a massive star; Pieter Degroote was PhD student of C. Aerts at the time of publication.

5. Beck P. G., Montalban J., Kallinger T., De Ridder J.,Aerts C., Garc´ıa R. A., Hekker S., Dupret M.-A., Mosser B., Eggenberger P., Stello D., Elsworth Y., Frandsen S., Carrier F., Hillen M., Gruberbauer M., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Miglio A., Valentini M., Bedding T. R., Kjeldsen H., Girouard F. R., Hall J. R., Ibrahim K. A., 2012, “Fast core rotation in red-giant stars as revealed by gravity-dominated mixed modes”,Nature, 481, 55 – 57 (175 citations, SCI impact factor 42.351)

First detection of nonrigid rotation inside red giant stars; Paul Beck was PhD student of C. Aerts at the time of publication.

6. Cunha M. S., Aerts C., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Baglin A., Bigot L., Brown T. M., Catala C., Creevey O. L., Domiciano de Souza A., Eggenberger P., Garcia P. J. V., Grundahl F., Kervella P., Kurtz D. W., Mathias P., Miglio A., Monteiro M. J. P. F. G., Perrin G., Pijpers F. P., Pourbaix D., Quirrenbach A., Rousselet-Perraut K., Teixeira T. C., Th´evenin F., Thompson M. J., 2007, “Asteroseismology and interferometry”,Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 14, 217 – 360 (89 citations, SCI impact factor 13.312)

Extensive invited review paper describing how the research fields of asteroseismology and interfer-ometry can be meaningfully bridged.

7. Aerts C., Puls J., Godart M., Dupret M.-A., 2009, “Collective pulsational velocity broadening due

to gravity modes as a physical explanation for macroturbulence in hot massive stars”,Astronomy and

Astrophysics, 508, 409 – 419 (74 citations, SCI impact factor 4.479)

This paper provides a physical interpretation of the observed phenomenon of macroturbulence in massive stars.

8. Aerts C., Molenberghs G., Kenward M. G., Neiner C., 2014, “The Surface Nitrogen Abundance

of a Massive Star in Relation to its Oscillations, Rotation, and Magnetic Field”,The Astrophysical Journal, 781, 88 (17 citations, SCI impact factor 6.280)

This paper bridges astrophysics and statistics by presenting the development and application of mul-tivariate linear mixed modelling to a multitude of high-precision data in a carefully selected sample of massive stars with the purpose to evaluate stellar evolution computations.

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9. Aerts C., De Cat P., Peeters E., Decin L., De Ridder J., Kolenberg K., Meeus G., Van Winckel H., Cuypers J., Waelkens C., 1999, “Selection of a sample of bright southern Slowly Pulsating B Stars for long-term photometric and spectroscopic monitoring”,Astronomy and Astrophysics, 343, 872 – 882 (91 citations, SCI impact factor 4.479)

This work formed the basis of new competitive observing campaigns which laid the foundations of the future PhD thesis work of P. De Cat and M. Briquet, under the supervision of C. Aerts.

10. Aerts C., 1996, “Mode identification of pulsating stars from line-profile variations with the moment method: a more accurate discriminant.”,Astronomy and Astrophysics, 314, 115 – 122 (111 citations, SCI impact factor 4.479)

Further development of the moment method for pulsation mode identification from high-precision spectroscopy, meanwhile extensively used by the international community.

8 International Peer-Reviewed Funding ID

8.1 Ongoing international peer-reviewed funding ID as prime investigator

• Advanced Investigator grant holder, ERC AdG2014: “MAMSIE: Mixing and Angular Momentum Transport of Massive Stars”, European Research Council, 1/1/2016 – 31/12/2020 (2.49 MEuro).

• PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “Belgian contribution to the ESA M3 mission PLATO, Payload” 1/1/2015 – 31/12/2016 (1.5 FTEs)

• Promotor, FP7, Marie Curie International Incoming Grant FP7-PEOPLE-2013-623303: “ASAMBA: Asteroseismic approach towards understanding blue supergiants” with beneficiary Dr. Ehsan Moravveiji, 2 years at KU Leuven, 1/7/2015 – 30/6/2017

• PI of the Research Grant: “Deviations from uniform period spacings of gravity modes as probes of rotational mixing near stellar cores”, Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2013 – 31/12/2016 (1 FTE)

• Chairwoman of the work package “Asteroseismology” of the EU FP7-SPACE-2012-1/CP-FP project “SpaceInn: Exploitation of Space Data for Innovative Helio- and Asteroseismology”, 2013 – 2016 (1 FTE)

• PI of Research Grant: “Asteroseismology of red giant stars with the satellitesKeplerand CoRoT”, Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2011 – 31/12/2015 (1 FTE)

8.2 Past international peer-reviewed funding ID as prime investigator

• Promotor, Postdoctoral Scholarship of the Federal Government of Belgium with beneficiary Dr. Ehsan Moravveiji, 18 months at KU Leuven, 1/1/2014 – 30/6/2015

• Promotor, FP7, Marie Curie Re-integration grant FP7-PIOF-GA-2009-25526: “Space

AsterSeismol-ogy – RR Lyrae stars” with beneficiary Dr. Katrien Kolenberg, 2 years at Harvard University, USA – 1 year at Leuven University, ended 30/4/2015

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• PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “Software Development for Gaia-DPAC: Variability (CU7)”, 1/1/2007 – 31/12/2013 (2 FTEs).

• Advanced Investigator grant holder, ERC AdG2008: “PROSPERITY: Probing Stellar Physics and Testing Stellar Evolution through Asteroseismology”, European Research Council, 1/1/2009 – 31/12/2013 (2.41 MEuro).

• PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “Data exploitation of the CoRoT space mission”, 1/1/2003 – 31/12/2013 (2 FTEs).

• PI of the Research Grant: “Asteroseismology of hot subdwarfs with the Mercator Advanced Imager for Asteroseismology”, Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2009 – 31/12/2012 (1 PhD position + equipment).

• PI of the Concerted Research Action: “High-Precision Probing of Stellar Interiors and Stellar

Envi-ronments”, Research Council, University of Leuven, 1/1/2008 – 31/12/2012 (5 FTEs).

• Belgian PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “PLATO Science Development”, 1/5/2010 – 31/12/2012 (1 FTE).

• Chairwoman of the work package Asteroseismology of the EU FP6 Coordination Action: Helio- and

Asteroseismology (HELAS, 1/4/2006 – 31/3/2010, 1 FTE).

• PI of the Research Grant: “Study of the internal and circumstellar structure of stars”, Fund for Scien-tific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2006 – 31/12/2009 (2 PhD positions).

• PI of the Concerted Research Action: “Asteroseismology of massive stars with the space missions

MONS and CoRoT”, Research Council, University of Leuven, 1/1/2003 – 31/12/2007 (5 FTEs).

• PI of the Research Grant: “Observational study of stars in stellar systems”, Fund for Scientific Re-search of Flanders, 1/1/2002 – 31/12/2005 (4 PhD positions).

• PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “Belgian participation in the MONS satellite”, 1/1/2001 – 30/9/2003

(1 FTE).

9 Membership of Scientific Advisory Bodies or Committees

9.1 International functions and responsibilities

• 2015 – present: member of the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC), European Science Foundation

• 2014 – present: Member of the PLATO Science Advisory Team, European Space Agency

• 2013 – present: Member of the Scientific Board of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

• 2013 – present: Member of the Board of Directors, the Netherlands Organisation for Space Science Research (SRON).

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• 2012 – present: Permanent Member, Committee for Staff Research hirings (OZK), Group Science & Technology, KU Leuven, Belgium.

• 2012 – present: annual jury member, Scientific Prizes in Astronomy and Astrophysics, “Acad´emie Royale des Sciences, des lettres & des beaux-arts de Belgique”, Royal Academy of Belgium, French-speaking Branch.

• 2011 – present: Member of the “Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Wetenschappen, Letteren en Kunsten”, Royal Academy of Belgium, Flemish Branch, including some of its Award Committees.

• 2010 – present: Member of the ESPRESSO Science Team, European Southern Observatory.

• 2009 – present: Belgian PI of the ESA M3 space mission PLATO.

• 2013 – 2015: Member of the Division G (“Stars and Stellar Physics”) Steering Committee, Interna-tional Astronomical Union.

• 2007 – 2015: Member of the Steering Committee of the NASA Kepler missions Asteroseismology Science Consortium (KASC).

• 2014: Chairwoman, Consolidator Grants Panel, PE9: Universe Sciences, Horizon2020, European Research Council.

• 2009 – 2014: Member of the Science Advisory Committee, Las Cumbres Observatory Group of

Telescopes, Goleta, USA.

• 2013: Starting Grants Panel Member, PE9: Universe Sciences, European Research Council.

• 2013: Chairwoman of the Observing Programme Committee of the European Southern Observatory,

P92 and P93 (leading 75 panel members distributed over 13 sub-panels).

• 2009 – 2013: Member of the Astronomy Board of the Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. 2010 – 2013: President of the board.

• 2002 – 2013: Belgian co-Investigator of the space mission CoRoT, with responsibility for target

selection and data exploitation of OB-type stars, as well as the N3 exoplanet data product delivery to the community.

• 2005 – 2012: Member of the committee for research actions at the Federal Services, Section Space, Belgium.

• 26/9/2011 – 16/12/2011: Coordinator of the advanced research programme “Asteroseismology in the

Space Age”, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. Other coordinators: profs Sarbani Basu, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, and Steven Kawaler.

• 2008 (Nov.) – 2011 (Oct.): Member of the Space Science Advisory Committee of the European Space Agency.

• 2009 – 2011: Member of “la Commission scientifique/Sciences Exactes et Naturelles”, of the Fonds de la Recherche National (F.R.S.- FNRS).

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• 2007 – 2008: Expert panel member of the European Southern Observatory for the Observing Pro-gramme Committee (OPC) periods P81 and P82.

• 2007 – 2008: Member of the PLATO Science Study Team, European Space Agency.

• 2007 – 2008: Member of the Gaia Science Team, European Space Agency.

• 2006 – 2008: Member of the Committee Open Competition, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Re-search (NWO), the Netherlands.

• 2005 – 2008: Secretary of the Belgian National Committee of Astronomy.

• 2003 (Dec.) – 2004 (June): Member of the Eddington Science Team, Data-analysis Scientist, Euro-pean Space Agency.

• 1/8/2003 – 1/8/2006: President of Commission 27: “Variable Stars” of the Internationale Astronomi-cal Union (this commission consists of some 500 staff astronomers worldwide).

• 2002 – 2009: Member of the Evaluation Committee Physics and Astronomy of the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders (FWO), Belgium.

• 2002 (Nov.) – 2005 (Feb.): Member of the Astronomy Working Group, European Space Agency.

• 2002-2007: Member of the Commission E7: Physics and Astronomy of the Fund for Scientific Re-search of Flanders.

• 1/8/2000 – 1/8/2003: Vice-president of Commission 27: “Variable Stars” of the Internationale Astro-nomical Union (this commission consists of some 500 staff astronomers worldwide).

• 1/5 – 1/9/2000 & 1/11/2003 – 1/4/2004: Member of the Eddington Science Team, European Space Agency.

9.2 Supervision of PhD Research

• Ongoing PhD Research:

1. 2014 – 2017: PhD research of Bram Buysschaert on Asteroseismology and polarimetry of mas-sive magnetic stars; Co-tutelle with Paris-Meudon under co-supervision of Dr. Coralie Neiner. 2. 2014 – 2017: PhD research of Timothy Van Reeth on asteroseismology of a sample of Doradus

pulsators with theKeplerspace mission and HERMES spectrograph, under co-supervision of Dr. Andrew Tkachenko.

3. 2013 – 2016: PhD research of Sara Alejandra Sans on Variability and Galactic Structure with the Gaia satellite under co-supervision of Dr. Joris De Ridder.

4. 2013 – 2016: PhD research of Valentina Schmid on Asteroseismology of close binary stars.

• Finished PhD Theses:

1. 15/7/2014: PhD of Pablo Marcos Arenal. Title of the thesis: “Simulations and software al-gorithms for space missions: developing an astronomical multi-mission instrument simulator”. University of Leuven, Belgium.

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2. 6/12/2013: PhD of Paul Beck. Title of the thesis: “Asteroseismology of Red-Giant Stars: Mixed Modes, Differential Rotation, and Eccentric Binaries”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Joris De Ridder. University of Leuven, Belgium.

3. 31/5/2013: PhD of Peter P´apics. Title of the thesis: “Observational asteroseismology of B-type stars on the main sequence with the CoRoT andKeplersatellites”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Maryline Briquet. University of Leuven Belgium.

4. 3/5/2013: PhD of Steven Bloemen. Title of the thesis: “High-precision studies of compact variable stars”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Roy Østensen. University of Leuven, Belgium.

5. 4/9/2012: PhD of Jeroen Vandersteen. Title of the thesis: “Observation and estimation for space applications: software algorithms and hardware design”. Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Swevers. University of Leuven, Belgium.

6. 10/7/2012: PhD of Jonas Blomme. Title of the thesis: “Variable star data mining techniques for time-resolved databases”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Joris De Ridder. University of Leuven, Belgium. 7. 25/11/2010: PhD of Pieter Degroote. Title of the thesis: “Asteroseismology of OB stars with

the CoRoT Space mission”. University of Leuven, Belgium.

8. 22/12/2009: PhD of Maarten Desmet. Title of the thesis: “Case studies of variable B-stars: 12 (DD) Lacertae, AU Monocerotis and↵(67) Vir (Spica)”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Maryline Briquet. University of Leuven, Belgium.

9. 14/12/2009: PhD of Sofie Saesen. Title of the thesis: “Towards asteroseismology of the young open stellar cluster Persei (NGC 884)”. Co-supervisors: Dr. Fabien Carrier, Dr. Joris De Rid-der. University of Leuven, Belgium.

10. 6/10/2009: PhD of Haili Hu. Title of the thesis: “Backtracking the evolution of subdwarf B stars with asteroseismology”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Gijs Nelemans. University of Leuven, Belgium/ University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

11. 8/10/2009: PhD of Maja Vuˇckovi´c. Title of the thesis: “An observational study of selected V361 Hya stars: EK Piscium, NY Virginis and EO Ceti”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Roy Østensen. University of Leuven, Belgium.

12. 24/3/2009: PhD of Jonas Debosscher. Title of the thesis: “Automated Classification of variable stars: Application to the OGLE and CoRoT databases”. University of Leuven, Belgium. 13. 18/12/2007: PhD of Rachel Drummond. Title of the thesis: “Calibration of the CoRoT space

mission: correction of the photometry for pointing jitter and background changes”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Bart Vandenbussche. University of Leuven, Belgium.

14. 26/10/2007: PhD of Karolien Lefever. Title of the thesis: “Fundamental Parameters of B-type Stars: Application to a HIPPARCOS sample of B supergiants and a CoRoT sample of B dwarfs”. Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Puls. University of Leuven, Belgium.

15. 18/9/2007: PhD of Saskia Hekker. Title of the thesis: “Radial velocity variations in red giant stars: pulsations, spots and planets”. Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. Quirrenbach. University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

16. 14/06/2006: PhD of Kadri Yakut. Title of the thesis: “An Observational Study of Unevolved Close Binary Stars”. University of Leuven, Belgium.

17. 08/07/2005: PhD of Mario Ausseloos. Title of the thesis: “Seismic Studies of selected Beta Cephei stars: Beta Centauri, Nu Eridani and 12 Lacertae”, University of Leuven, Belgium.

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18. 29/9/2004: PhD of Katrien Uytterhoeven. Title of the thesis: “An observational study of line-profile variable B stars in multiple systems”. Co-supervisor: Dr. John Telting (La Palma Obser-vatory, Canary Islands). University of Leuven, Belgium.

19. 12/3/2003: PhD of Maryline Briquet. Title of the thesis: “An observational study of line-profile variable B stars”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Richard Scuflaire. University of Li`ege, Belgium.

20. 25/6/2002: PhD of Katrien Kolenberg. Title of the thesis: “A Spectroscopy Study of the Blazhko Effect in RR Lyrae”. University of Leuven, Belgium.

21. 17/12/2001: PhD of Joris De Ridder. Title of the thesis: “Contributions to the interpretation of line-profile variations of pulsating B stars”. University of Leuven, Belgium.

22. 23/5/2001: PhD of Peter De Cat. Title of the thesis: “An observational study of bright southern Slowly Pulsating B Stars”. University of Leuven, Belgium.

9.3 Membership of PhD or Habilitation committees, not as supervisor

1. 25/9/2015: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Tugdual Ceillier. Title of the thesis: “Stellar dynamics: rotation and magnetism of solar-like stars observed by Kepler”, Supervisor: Dr. (HDR) Rafael A. Garcia, Service d’Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

2. 23/9/2015: President of the PhD committee of Jonathan Menu. Title of the thesis: “The structure of protoplanetary disks around intermediate-mass young stars”. Supervisors: Prof. Christoffel Waelkens and Dr. Roy Van Boekel, University of Leuven, Belgium.

3. 4/9/2015: Member of the PhD committee of Michael Moreels. Title of the thesis: “ Seismology of photospheric flux tubes using axisymmetric wave modes”. Supervisor: Prof. Tom Vandoorsselaere, University of Leuven, Belgium.

4. 19/8/2015: Member of the PhD committee of Joris Vos. Title of the thesis: “Exploring the evolu-tion of wide hot-subdwarf binaries”. Supervisors: Prof. Hans Van Winckel and Dr. Roy Øestensen, University of Leuven, Belgium.

5. 18/12/2014: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Nicola Clementel. Title of the thesis: “Casting light on the⌘Carinae puzzle”. Supervisor: Prof. Vincent Icke, Leiden University, the

Netherlands.

6. 25/6/2014: Member of the PhD committee of Katrien Bonte. Title of the thesis: “Automated detection methods for characterising dynamic events in solar coronal images”. Supervisor: Prof. Stefaan Poedts. University of Leuven, Belgium.

7. 23/5/2014: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Sébastien Salmon. Title of the thesis: “Impact of micro- and macro-physics on the seismic properties of main sequence B-type stars”. Supervisor: Dr. Josefina Montálban, University of Liège, Belgium.

8. August 2013: External expert of the PhD committee of Markus Hareter. Title of the thesis: “Inves-tigation of Dor – Sct hybrid stars based on high-precision space photometry and complementary ground-based spectroscopy”. Supervisor: Prof. Werner Weiss. Vienna University, Austria.

9. 29/4/2013: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Rasmus Handberg. Title of the thesis: “Asteroseismology of Solar-like Stars”. Supervisor: Prof. Hans Kjeldsen. ˚Arhus University, Denmark.

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10. April 2013: External expert of the Habilitation application of Dr. Markus Roth, University of Freiburg, Germany.

11. 4/7/2012: Member of the PhD committee of Sara Regibo. Title of the thesis: “Data Reduction and Analysis Algorithms for the Herschel Space Observatory”. Supervisor: Dr. Bart Vandenbussche. University of Leuven, Belgium.

12. 27/11/2007: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Andrea Miglio. Title of the thesis: “Asteroseismic probing of the internal structure of main-sequence stars”. Supervisor: Dr. Josefina Montalb´an. University of Li`ege, Belgium.

13. 28/11/2007: Member of the PhD committee of Else van den Besselaar. Title of the thesis: “White Dwarf - Red Dwarf Binaries in the Galaxy”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Groot. Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

14. 24/10/2007: Member (secretary) of the PhD committee of Nele Veldeman. Title of the thesis: “The Influence of Doping on the Physicochemical Properties of Coinage Metal Clusters: Enhanced Stabil-ities and Modified Chemical ActivStabil-ities”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Lievens. University of Leuven, Belgium.

15. 16/4/2007: Member of the PhD committee of Gijs Roelofs. Title of the thesis: “The AM Canum Venaticorum Stars”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Paul Groot and Dr. Gijs Nelemans. Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

16. 30/3/2007: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Pierre-Olivier Bourge. Title of the thesis: “Asteroseismology of Cephei stars: effects of microscopic diffusion”. Supervisor: Dr. Anne Thoul. University of Li`ege, Belgium.

17. 24/10/2006: Member of the PhD committee of Roy Smits. Title of the thesis: “Properties and Geom-etry of Radio Pulsar Emission”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jan Kuijpers (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Dr. Ben Stappers (University of Amsterdam). Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 18. 17/12/2003: External expert and jury member of the Habilitation defence of Dr. Philippe Mathias,

Observatoire de la Côte dAzur: “Pulsations stellaires: de l’astérosismologie à la perte de masse”. University of Nice, France.

19. 12/11/2003: Member of the PhD committee of Greet Decin. Title of the thesis: “A study of the oc-currence and time evolution of circumstellar debris disks and their relation with planetary systems”. Supervisors: Prof. Christoffel Waelkens and Dr. Carsten Dominik (University of Amsterdam). Uni-versity of Leuven, Belgium.

20. 10/11/2003: Member of the PhD committee of Thomas Maas. Title of the thesis: “A study of post-AGB stars with a dusty disc”. Supervisor: Prof. Hans Van Winckel. University of Leuven, Belgium. 21. 22/5/2003: External expert and jury Member of the PhD thesis of Ziv Shkedy. Title of the thesis:

“Flexible Statistical Modeling: Application to Infectious Diseases and Astronomical Data”. Supervi-sors: Profs Marc Aerts and Geert Molenberghs. University of Hasselt, Belgium.

22. 16/12/2002: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Marc-Antoine Dupret. Title of the thesis: “Non-radial non-adiabatic oscillations of near main sequence variable stars”. Supervisor: Dr. Richard Scuflaire. University of Li`ege, Belgium.

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23. 4/10/2002: Member of the PhD committee of Kristin Reyniers. Title of the thesis: “Tidal pertur-bations of linear, isentropic oscillations in components of circular-orbit close binaries”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Smeyers. University of Leuven, Belgium.

24. 3/10/2002: Member of the PhD committee of Bart Vandenbussche. Title of the thesis: “The ISO Short-Wavelength Spectrometer calibration and the ISO-SWS post-helium atlas of near-infrared stel-lar spectra”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoffel Waelkens. University of Leuven, Belgium.

25. 27/6/2002: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Fabien Carrier. Title of the thesis: “Variabilité, sismologie et paramètres physique stellaires”. Supervisor: Prof. Gilbert Burki. Observa-toire de Genève, Switzerland.

26. 6/6/2002: Member of the PhD committee of Caroline Van Kerckhoven. Title of the thesis: “Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Diamonds around Young Stellar Objects”. Supervisors: Profs Christoffel Waelkens and Xander Thielens (Groningen University). University of Leuven, Belgium.

27. 29/5/2001: Member (secretary) of the PhD committee of Gwendolyn Meeus. Title of the thesis: “A multi-wavelength study of the circumstellar environment of isolated Herbig Ae/Be stars”. Supervi-sors: Profs Christoffel Waelkens and Rens Waters. University of Leuven, Belgium.

28. 30/5/2000: Member (secretary) of the PhD committee of Leen Decin. Title of the thesis: “Synthetic spectra of cool stars observed with the ISO Short-Wavelength Spectrometer: improving the models and the calibration of the instrument”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoffel Waelkens. University of Leuven, Belgium.

29. 17/5/2000: Member of the PhD committee of Bart Willems. Title of the thesis: “Contribution to the theory of dynamic tides and orbital evolution in close binaries”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Smeyers. University of Leuven, Belgium.

30. 16/12/1999: Member (secretary) of the PhD committee of Goedele Ruymaekers. Title of the thesis: “Error Assessment of Orbits and Masses of Visual Double Stars by means of Bootstrap”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoffel Waelkens. University of Leuven, Belgium.

31. 16/11/1999: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Coen Schrijvers. Title of the thesis: “Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Pulsation in Rotating Stars”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jan van Paradijs and Dr. Huib Henrichs. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

10 Scientific Work Visits Abroad

• Scientific visits abroad with a duration of one month or longer:

– Participant in the advanced research programme: “Galactic Archeology and High-precision As-trophysics”.

Period: 31/1/2015 until 8/3/2015.

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– Coordinator of the advanced research programme: “Asteroseismology in the Space Age”. Period: 20/10/2011 until 20/11/2011.

Institute: Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (USA) – Scientific visit: The Aarhus pulsation code/Kepler Target selection.

Period: 20/5/2010 until 20/6/2010.

Danish AsteroSeismology Center, Aarhus University, Denmark

– Scientific work visit: The Garching Stellar Evolution code and massive star asteroseismology. Period: from 1/3/2010 until 15/5/2010 during 3 days/week.

Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany

– Scientific work visit: Introduction into the theory of radiation-driven winds of massive stars. Period: from 08/11/1993 until 21/12/1993.

Institute: University of Delaware (USA)

– Observing run with the Swiss Telescope and long stay at La Silla Observatory. Period: from 01/11/1990 until 30/11/1990.

Institute: European Southern Observatory (Chile)

– Observing run with the Swiss Telescope and long stay at La Silla Observatory. Period: from 08/03/1989 until 11/05/1989.

Institute: European Southern Observatory (Chile)

• Some 80 scientific work visits to foreign institutes and international observatories, ranging from two days up to three weeks each, in different European countries, the USA and Chile.

11 Invited Review Talks and Invited Seminars

1. Aerts, C., 2015, “A Decade of Asteroseismology in Action”, Invited Joint Seminar, Institute of Ad-vanced Study & Astrophysics Department, Princeton, USA, 10/2/2015

2. Aerts, C., 2015, “Asteroseismology of dwarfs and massive stars”, Invited talk presented during Sym-posium “The Milky Way and its Stars: Stellar Astrophysics, Galactic Archaeology, and Stellar Pop-ulations”, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, 2 – 6/2/2015

3. Aerts, C., 2014, “A natural scientist to bear witness”, Invited talk presented during Symposium “Flan-ders Future as a Knowledge Society-F2KS”, Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bel-gium, Brussels, BelBel-gium, 28/11/2014

4. Aerts, C., 2014, “Asteroseismology: the revolution in stellar physics”, inaugural seminar of the new Physics Colloquium Series, Antwerp University, 27/11/2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z 0ILK4GI8&feature=youtu.be

5. Aerts, C., 2014, “Starquakes and Exoplanets in our Milky Way Galaxy”, invited lecture, 26th SOLVAY Conference in Physics “Astrophysics and Cosmology”, Brussels, Belgium, 9 – 12/10/2014

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6. Aerts, C., 2014, “Asteroseismology”, invited review talk presented during “The variable Sky: from tiny variations to big explosions”, Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society, Bamberg, Germany, 22 – 26/9/2014.

7. Aerts, C., 2014, “Asteroseismology: the study of stellar oscillations and its impact on astrophysics”, invited lecture presented during the “Kavli Prize Symposium on Astrophysics”, Oslo, Norway, 11/9/2014. 8. Aerts, C., 2014, “Results from asteroseismology on massive stars”, invited talk presented during “New

Windows on Massive Stars : Asteroseismology, Interferometry, Spectropolarimetry”, IAU Sympo-sium 307, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 – 27/6/2014.

9. Aerts, C., 2013, “Highlights of PROSPERITY and of the meeting”, closing lecture, International Francqui Symposium “What Asteroseismology has to offer the Astrophysics”, Brussels, Belgium, 2 – 4/12/2013.

10. Aerts, C., 2013, “Asteroseismology of Stellar Clusters”, invited talk presented during the Gaia/GREAT/ESF workshop “The World of Clusters”, Padova, Italy, 23 – 25/9/2013.

11. Aerts, C., 2013, “Asteroseismology of close binary stars”, invited talk presented during “Setting a new standard in the analysis of binary stars”, Leuven, Belgium, 16 – 19/9/2013.

12. Aerts, C., 2013, “Probing Stellar Physics and Testing Stellar Evolution through Asteroseismology”, Invited seminar, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, 12/7/2013.

13. Aerts, C., 2013, “Constraints on Stellar Models from Asteroseismology”, invited review presented during the Lorentz Center workshop “Towards a new generation of stellar models”, Leiden, the Netherlands, 1 – 5/7/2013.

14. Aerts, C., 2012, SOLVAY Colloquim “Probing Stellar Physics and Testing Stellar Evolution through Asteroseismology”, Solvay Institutes in Physics and Chemistry, Brussels, Belgium, 4/12/2012. 15. Aerts, C., 2012, Invited Physics Colloquium “Probing Stellar Physics through Asteroseismology”,

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, 8/11/2012.

16. Aerts, C. & Bloemen, S., 2012, Invited duo-talk “Master and Pupil: Asteroseismology in the Space Age”, Opening event, Snellius@Lorentz Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands, 4/10/2012.

17. Aerts, C., 2012, Invited talk “Asteroseismology: from single stars to large ensembles”, Gaia/GREAT workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 19 – 21/9/2012.

18. Aerts, C., 2012, Work visit including Invited Seminar “The Power of Gravity-Mode oscillations to Probe the Physics of Stellar Cores”, Joint Astrophysics Colloquium MPA/ESO/MPE/Munich Univer-sity, 2/2/2012.

19. Aerts, C., 2012, Work visit including Invited Seminar “Sounding Stellar Heartbeats from Asteroseis-mology and the Daily Struggle of an Astromama”, Vienna, 10/1/2012.

20. Aerts, C., 2011, “Tuning stellar cores from gravity modes detected in CoRoT and Kepler data of various types of stars”, Invited Seminar, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, 1/12/2011. 21. Aerts, C., 2011, “Pulsations in Binaries”, Invited talk, KASC IV workshop, Boulder, 11-15/7/2011.

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22. Aerts C., 2011, invited talk “Asteroseismology across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram”, presented during the AAAS meeting “Science without borders”, during seminar: “Kepler: looking for other Earths”, Washington, USA, 17-21/2/2011.

23. Aerts, C., 2010, “Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT and Kepler space mission”, invited semi-nar, SETI, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA, 17/2/2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmXreCryOjE

24. Aerts, C., 2009, “Probing Stellar Physics and testing stellar evolution through asteroseismology”, Invited talk, 64th Dutch Astronomy Conference, Rolduc, the Netherlands, 13/5/2009.

25. Aerts, C., 2009, “Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT space mission”, invited plenary talk, European Week of Astronomy and Space Studies, Hertfordshire, UK, 23/4/2009.

26. Aerts, C., 2009, “Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT space mission”, Invited seminar, Univer-sity of Heidelberg , Germany, 13/1/2009.

27. Aerts, C., 2009, “Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT space mission”, Invited seminar, Univer-sity of G¨ottingen, Germany, 12/1/2009.

28. Aerts, C., 2008, “The current status of asteroseismology”, invited seminar, Max-Planck Institute f¨ur Sonnephysik, Lindau, Germany, 26/2/2008.

29. Aerts, C., 2008, “The current status of asteroseismology”, invited seminar, Joint Astrophysics Collo-quium MPA/ESO/MPE/Munich University, 10/1/2008.

30. Aerts C., Hekker S., Desmet M., Carrier F., Zima W., Briquet M., Ridder J., 2008, “High-Precision Spectroscopy of Pulsating Stars, Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics”, review talk of 30 minutes, ESO Astrophysics Symposia, Aveiro, Portugal.

31. Aerts C., 2007, “Asteroseismology of Close Binary Stars”, review talk of 45 minutes, IAU Sympo-sium, General Assembly of the IAU, Prague, Czech Republic.

32. Aerts C., 2006, “The pulsations and potential for seismology of B stars”, review talk of 45 minutes, ESA SP-624: Proceedings of SOHO 18/GONG 2006/HELAS I, Beyond the spherical Sun, Sheffield, UK.

33. Aerts, C.,2006, “Highlights in Asteroseismology: a biased selection”, Invited seminar, the University of Central Lancashire, UK, 20/5/2006.

34. Aerts, C.,2006, “Asteroseismology: current status”, Invited seminar, the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 20/3/2006.

35. Aerts, C., 2005, “Asteroseismology: from dream to reality”, Invited seminar, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 18/4/2005.

36. Aerts, C., 2004, “Asteroseismology of Cep stars: current status”, Invited seminar, Iowa State Uni-versity, USA, 5/11/2004.

37. Aerts C., Harmanec P., 2004, “Pulsating components in close binaries”, review talk of 40 minutes, ASP Conf. Ser. 318: Spectroscopically and Spatially Resolving the Components of the Close Binary Stars, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

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38. Aerts, C., 2003, “Asteroseismology: from the Sun to stars”, Invited seminar, the Universit¨atsstern-warte Munchen, Germany, 5/2/2003.

39. Aerts, C., 2002, “Asteroseismology: from the Sun to stars”, review talk of 50 minutes, 12th meeting of the European Physical Society: Trends in Physics / parallel symposium: Physics in Space, Budapest, Hungary.

40. Aerts C., 2000, “Multimode Detections from Surveys”, review talk of 30 minutes, IAU Colloq. 175: The Be-Phenomenon in Early-Type Stars, Alicante, Spain.

41. Aerts, C., 2000, “Asteroseismology with future space missions”, review talk of 30 minutes, 55th Dutch Astronomer’s Conference, Dalfsen, the Netherlands.

42. Aerts, C., 1999, “Line-profile variables along the main sequence”, invited seminar, the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Boston, USA, 29/11/1999.

43. Aerts, C., 1999, “Line-profile variables along the main sequence”, invited seminar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark, 21/10/1999.

44. Aerts, C., 1999, “Long-term monitoring of slowly pulsating B stars”, invited seminar, the Observatoire de la Cˆote dAzur, Nice, France, 6/4/1999.

45. Aerts C., Waelkens C., De Cat P., 1998, “Slowly pulsating B stars - new insights from HIPPARCOS”, review talk of 25 minutes, IAU Symposium 185: New Eyes to See Inside the Sun and Stars, General Assembly of the IAU, Kyoto, Japan.

46. Aerts, C., Waelkens, C., De Cat, P., Kolenberg, K., Kestens, E.,Grenon, M., Eyer, L., 1997, “Pulsat-ing B stars discovered by HIPPARCOS”, review talk of 45 minutes, 86th American Association of Variable Star Observers Spring meeting, Sion, Switzerland.

47. Aerts, C., 1995, “Analysis of line-profile variations of pulsating stars”, invited seminar, the Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hongary, 21/9/1995.

48. Aerts C., 1993, “Mode Identification in Pulsating Stars”, review talk of 50 minutes, IAU Symposium 162: Pulsation, Rotation, and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars, Juan-les-Pins, France, 5-8/10/1993. 49. Aerts, C., 1993, “Nonradial Pulsations in Early-Type Stars: Mode Identification with the Moment

Method”, invited seminar, the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, USA,18/11/1993. 50. Aerts, C., 1993, “Line profile variations in non-radially pulsating stars”, invited seminar, the Instituut

Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 18/6/1993.

12 Participation in International Conferences and Workshops

1. International Workshop: “Seventh Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects”, 19 – 25/7/2015, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK.

2. FP7 SpaceInn WP5 International Binary Workshop: “State-of-the-art analysis tools for binary stars and pulsators in binary systems”, 13 – 17/4/2015, Leuven, Belgium.

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3. International KITP Conference “The Milky Way and its Stars”, 31/1 – 6/2/2015, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

4. 26th SOLVAY Conference in Physics: “Astrophysics and Cosmology”, 9 – 12/10/2014, Brussels, Belgium.

5. Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society: “The variable Sky: from tiny variations to big explosions”, 22 – 26/9/2014, Bamberg, Germany.

6. The “Kavli Prize Symposium on Astrophysics”, 7 – 11/9/2014, Oslo, Norway.

7. IAU Symposium 307: “New Windows on Massive Stars : Asteroseismology, Interferometry, Spec-tropolarimetry”, 22 – 27/6/2014, Geneva, Switzerland.

8. International Francqui Symposium “What Asteroseismology has to offer to Astrophysics”, 2 – 5/12/2013, Brussels, Belgium.

9. Gaia/GREAT/ESF workshop “The World of Clusters”, 23 – 25/9/2013, Padova, Italy.

10. International workshop “Setting a new standard in the analysis of binary stars”, 16 – 19/9/2013, Leuven, Belgium.

11. International workshop “Advances in Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Observational and Ex-perimental Data”, 12 – 13/7/2013, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.

12. Lorentz Center workshop “Towards a new generation of stellar models”, 1 – 5/7/2013, Leiden, the Netherlands.

13. Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Sixth Workshop (KASC VI), 24 – 28/6/2013, Sydney, Aus-tralia.

14. General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, Beijing, 25 – 31/8/2012, organiser and attendance of Special Session 13: High-precision tests of stellar physics from high-precision photom-etry as well as National Delegate of Belgium

15. Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Fifth Workshop (KASC V), 18 – 22/6/2012, Balatonalm´adi, Hungary.

16. First PlaVi Workshop, 3 – 4/5/2012, Madrid, Spain.

17. International KITP Conference: The impact of Asteroseismology across Stellar Astrophysics, 24 – 28/10/2011, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. 18. Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Fourth Workshop (KASC IV), 11 – 15/7/2011, Boulder,

USA.

19. AAAS meeting “Science without borders”, 17 – 21/2/2011, Washington, USA.

20. Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Third Workshop (KASC III), 14 – 18/6/2010, Aarhus, Den-mark.

21. HELAS IV International Conference: Seismological Challenges for Stellar Structure, 1 – 5/2/2010, Lanzarote, Spain

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22. International HELAS Workshop: “Synergies between solar and stellar modeling”, 22 – 26/6/2009, Rome, Italy.

23. European Week of Astronomy and Space Studies, 20 – 23/4/2009, Hertfordshire, UK.

24. GONG 2008/SOHO 21 International meeting: “Solar-stellar dynamos as revealed by helio- and aster-oseismology”, 11 – 15/8/2008, Boulder, USA.

25. International HELAS Workshop: “Interpretation of Asteroseismic Data”, 22 – 25/6/2008, Wroclaw, Poland.

26. HELAS III: “First CoRoT International Symposium”, 2 – 5/2/2008, Paris, France.

27. Symposium 250 of the International Astronomical Union: “Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines”, 8 – 17/12/2007, Hawaii, USA.

28. First Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium workshop, 29 – 31/10/2007, Orsay, France.

29. HELAS II International Symposium: “Helioseismology, Asteroseismology and MHD connections”, 20 – 24/8/2007, G¨ottingen, Germany.

30. International colloquium: “Stellar Pulsation & Cycles of Discovery: new tools, new variables, new astrophysics”, 23 – 27/7/2007, Vancouver, Canada.

31. Meeting of the Data Analysis Team of the CoRoT space mission, 25 – 26/6/2007, Paris, France. 32. HELAS Board meeting, 27 – 29/3/2007, Rome, Italy.

33. Gaia CU5+CU7 meeting, 21 – 23/3/2007, Bologna, Italy.

34. HELAS International Workshop: “The Future of Asteroseismology”, 20 – 22/9/2006, Vienna, Austria. 35. International Workshop “High-precision spectroscopy in astrophysics”, 11 – 15/9/2006, Aveiro,

Por-tugal.

36. 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 14 – 28/8/2006, Prague, Czech Republic.

37. SOHO 18/GONG 2006/HELAS I International Conference: “Beyond the Spherical Sun: a new era of helio- and asteroseismology”, 7 – 11/8/2006, Sheffield, UK.

38. The “10th CoRoT Science Week”, 6 – 9/6/2006, Nice, France.

39. The “9th CoRoT Science Week”, 6 – 9/12/2005, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

40. The “Second Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects”, 6 – 10 June 2005, La Palma, Canary Islands.

41. The “7th CoRoT Science Week”, 14 – 17/12/2004, Granada, Spain. 42. The “6th CoRoT Science Week”, 17 – 19/5/2004, Orsay, France. 43. The “5th CoRoT Science Week”, 10 – 12/12/2003, Berlin, Germany.

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44. International Workshop “Spectroscopically and spatially resolving the components of close binary stars”, 20 – 24/10/2003, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

45. 25th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 14 – 26/7/2003, Sydney, Australia. 46. IAU Colloquium 193: “Variable stars in the Local Group”, 7 – 11/07/2003, Christchurch, New

Zealand.

47. The “4th CoRoT Science Week”, 3 – 6/06/2003, Marseille, France.

48. The 2nd Eddington Workshop “Stellar-structure and habitable planet finding”, 9 – 11/04/2003, Palermo, Italy.

49. The “3rd CoRoT Science Week”, 4 – 6/12/2002, Li`ege, Belgium.

50. IAU Symposium 215: “Stellar Rotation”, 11 – 15/11/2002, Cancun, Mexico.

51. 12th meeting of the European Physical Society: “Trends in Physics”, 26 – 30/09/2002, Budapest, Hungary.

52. International Workshop “Asteroseismology across the HR diagram”, 1 – 5/07/2002, Porto, Portugal. 53. The “2nd CoRoT Science Week”, 13 – 16/05/2002, Paris, France.

54. The “1st CoRoT Science Week”, 17 – 21/09/2001, Vienna, Austria.

55. IAU Colloquium 185: “Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics”, 26 – 31/07/2001, Leuven, Belgium.

56. The 1st Eddington Workshop “Stellar-structure and habitable planet finding”, 11 – 15/06/2001, Cor-doba, Spain.

57. 24th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 7 – 18/8/2000, Manchester, UK. 58. The MOST Science Workshop, 20 – 22/05/2000, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 59. The Third MONS Workshop: “MONS Science Preparation and Target Selection”, 24 – 26/1/2000,

Arhus University, Denmark.

60. IAU Colloquium 176: “The impact of large scale structures on variable star research”, 8 – 12/8/1999, Budapest, Hungary.

61. The 6th Vienna Workshop in Astrophysics: “ Scuti and related stars”, 4 – 6/8/1999, Vienna, Austria. 62. IAU Colloquium 175: “The Be phenomenon in Early-Type Stars”, 28/5 – 2/6/1999, Alicante, Spain. 63. 23rd General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 18 – 30/8/1997, Kyoto, Japan. 64. International Colloquium: “A Half Century of Stellar Pulsation Interpretations: a Tribute to Arthur N.

Cox”, 16 – 20/6/1997, Los Alamos, USA.

65. 86th American Association of Variable Star Observers Spring meeting: “Variable Stars: New Fron-tiers”, 26 – 31/5/1997, Sion, Switzerland.

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66. IAU Colloquium 155: “Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation”, 6 – 10/02/1995, Cape Town, South Africa.

67. IAU Symposium 162: “Pulsation, Rotation and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars”, 5 – 8/10/1993, Juan-les-Pins, France.

68. IAU Colloquium 139: “New Perspectives on Stellar Pulsation & Pulsating Variable Stars”, 14 – 18/7/1992, Victoria, Canada.

69. International Workshop: “The Atmospheres of Early-type Stars”, 18 – 20/9/1991, Kiel, Germany. 70. International Colloquium: “Confrontation between Stellar Pulsation and Evolution”, 28 – 31/5/1990,

Bologna, Italy.

71. International Colloquium: “From Miras to planetary nebulae: Which path for stellar evolution?”, 4 – 7/9/1989, Montpellier, France.

72. 1989-present, quasi-yearly: Dutch Astronomer’s Conference which takes place in the Netherlands or in Flanders in the month of May during three days.

13 Organization of International Symposia

1. Member of the scientific organizing committee of the International Workshop: “Science with BRITE-Constellation: initial results”, 14 – 18/9/2015, Gdansk, Poland.

2. Member of the scientific organizing committee of the International Conference: “SOLARNET III / HELAS VII / SpaceInn Conference: The Sun, the stars, and solar-stellar relations”, 30/8 – 4/9/2015, Freiburg, Germany.

3. Convener and Organizer of the Minisymposium: “Bridging Geophysics, Astrophysics & Plasma-physics”, 4/8/2015, University of Leuven, Belgium.

4. Member of the scientific organizing committee of the International Workshop: “Seventh Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects”, 19 – 25/7/2015, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK.

5. Member of the scientific organizing committee of the KASC8/TASC1 Workshop: “Space Asteroseis-mology: the Next Generation”, 15 – 19/6/2015, Aarhus, Denmark.

6. Member of the scientific organizing committee of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Sev-enth Workshop (KASC7), CoRoT Symposium 3 joint meeting: “The Space Photometry Revolution”, 6 – 11/7/2014, Toulouse, France.

7. Convener and Organizer of the International Francqui Symposium: “What Asteroseismology has to offer to Astrophysics”, 2 – 4/12/2013, Brussels, Belgium.

8. Member of the scientific organizing committee of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Sixth Workshop (KASC6), 23 – 28/6/2013, Sydney, Australia

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9. Member of the scientific organizing committee of the International Conference: “Progress in physics of the sun and stars: a new era in helio- and asteroseismology”, 25 – 30/11/2012, Hakone, Japan. 10. Member of the scientific organizing committee of Special Session 13: “High-Precision Tests of Stellar

Physics from High-Precision Photometry”, IAU XXVIII General Assembly, 20 – 31/8/2012, Beijing, China.

11. Member of the scientific organising committee of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Fifth Workshop (KASC5), 18 – 22/6/2012, Balatonalm´adi, Hungary.

12. Chairwoman of the KASC/WG9 workshop: “Asteroseismology of eclipsing binaries”, 26 – 29/4/2011, Leuven, Belgium.

13. Member of the scientific organising committee of the 3rd_{KASC workshop: “Kepler} Asteroseismol-ogy in Action”, 14 – 18/6/2010, Aarhus, Denmark.

14. Member of the scientific organising committee and participant of HELAS IV International sympo-sium: “Seismological Challenges for Stellar Structure”, 1 – 5/2/2010, Lanzarote, Spain.

15. Member of the scientific organizing committee of the HELAS International Workshop: “Synergies between solar and stellar modeling”, 22-26/6/2009, Rome, Italy.

16. Member of the scientific organising committee of the first International CoRoT symposium/HELAS III, 2 – 5/2/2009, Paris, France.

17. Member of the scientific organising committee of the JENAM 2008 Symposium No.4 “Asteroseis-mology and stellar evolution”, 8 – 12 /12/2008, Vienna, Austria.

18. Member of the scientific organising committee of the HELAS II International Symposium: “Helio-seismology, Asteroseismology and MHD connections”, 20 – 24/8/2007, G¨ottingen, Germany. 19. Chairwoman of the “3rd_{CU7: Gaia - Variability” meeting, 9 – 10/11/2006, Leuven, Belgium.} 20. Member of the scientific organising committee of the HELAS International Workshop: “The Future

of Asteroseismology”, 20 – 22/9/2006, Vienna, Austria.

21. Chairwoman of the first Board Meeting of the European Coordination Action “Helio- and Asteroseis-mology” (HELAS), 20 – 21/4/2006, Leuven, Belgium.

22. Chairwoman of the scientific organising committee of the international PhD school: “Astrophysics of Variable Stars”, 5 – 10/9/2005, Pecs, Hungary (60 participating PhD students).

23. Member of the scientific organising committee of the international meeting “Active OB stars: Labo-ratories for stellar and circumstellar physics”, 29/8 – 2/9/2005, Sapparo, Japan.

24. Member of the scientific organising committee of the international meeting “Stellar Pulsation and Evolution”, 19 – 24/6/2005, Rome, Italy.

25. Member of the scientific organising committee of Colloquium 193 of the International Astronomical Union entitled “Variable stars in the Local Group”, 6 – 11/7/2003 in Christchurch, New Zealand. 26. Member of the scientific organising committee of the Flanders-Chile international workshop in the

framework of a bilateral agreement, “Periodic, Cyclic and Stochastic Variability in Selected Areas of the H-R diagram”, 22 – 24/7/2002, Brussels, Belgium.

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27. Member of the scientific organising committee of the international workshop “Asteroseismology across the HR diagram”, 1 – 5/7/2002, Porto, Portugal.

28. Member of the scientific organising committee of the Flanders-South-Africa international workshop in the framework of a bilateral agreement, “Observational Aspects of Pulsating B- and A Stars”, 24 – 25/7/2001, Brussels, Belgium.

29. Chairwoman of the MONS Field Monitor Kick-Off meeting held on 22/10/2001 at Leuven University, Belgium.

30. Chairwoman of the local organising committee and member of the scientific organising committee of Colloquium 185 of the International Astronomical Union “Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics”, 26 – 31/7/2001, Leuven, Belgium.

31. Chairwoman of both the LOC and SOC of the 53rd Dutch Astronomical Conference held in Flanders on request of the Dutch Astronomical Society, 6 – 8/5/1998, Houthalen, Belgium.

14 Mentoring and Training Initiatives

1. 2002 – present: mentor of female mentees, from master student level all the way up to associate professors, both within the University of Leuven and elsewhere in the world.

2. 14/11/2015: Invited Lecture “Starquakes and Exoplanets in our Milky Way Galaxy”, training class for secondary school science teachers presented during the annual conference of the Society of High School Teachers, VIVES Campus Kortrijk, Belgium.

3. 10/9/2015: Invited Talk “Work-Life Balance in Academia”, during session Gender (WG5): work – life relation in our field, 21st European string workshop and 3rd COST MP1210 meeting “The String Theory Universe”, 7 – 11/9/2015, Leuven, Belgium.

4. 25/6/2015: Invited Talk “Career Story of an AstroMama” and Duo-Interview during the Evening Event “Career Talks”. Organisation: YouReCa Career Center of KU Leuven in collaboration with the PhD Society KU Leuven.

5. 23/4/2015: Invited Gender Seminar: “An astromama to bear witness and some recent gender actions towards research organisations, young scientists, and schools”, Organisation: Doctoral School of Behavioral Sciences and Humanities, Hasselt University, Belgium.

6. 2006 – 2015: member of the Organising Committee of the Working Group “Women in Astronomy” of the International Astronomical Union.

7. Organizer and Lecture of the International Tutorial for Postdocs: “How to write and successfully defend a large grant proposal?”, 5/12/2013, Brussels, Belgium

8. 2013: Written Contribution (Opiniestuk “Vrije Hand”, in Dutch): “Postdocs Coachen” (Training of Posdocs), inKarakter: Journal of Science, Vol. 44

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9. 27/8/2012: Co-organiser of the event “Meet-a-Mentor”, General Assembly of the International Astro-nomical Union, Beijing, China.

10. 1998 – 2002: member of the Interfacultary Board “Woman-Man-University” of the University of Leuven, Belgium.

11. Co-founder (1996) and coordinator (1997 to 2001) of the Working Group Women and University at the University of Leuven. More than 100 members joined that group during this period. It laid to the foundation of the Centre of Equal Opportunities, inaugurated at KU Leuven in 2001. C. Aerts is still an active member of that group.

12. Chairperson of the one-day colloquium “Dehasting: fashionable or possible?”, organized by the work-ing group “Women and University” in Leuven on 9/11/2001 (60 participants).

13. Chairperson of the one-day colloquium “The gender of science”, organized by the working group “Women and University” in Leuven on 1/12/1998 (120 participants).

15 Teaching duties

15.1 Teaching assistance and courses at Leuven University

• 2015 – present: annual 3 ECTS course entitled: “Wetenschapscommunicatie/Science Communica-tion”, 2nd year Bachelor in Physics, Leuven & Kortrijk branch of Leuven University.

• 1999 – present: annual (until 2011) and biennial (as of 2012) 6 ECTS course entitled:

“Asteroseis-mology”, Master in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

• 1999 – present: annual 6 ECTS course entitled: “Stellar Structure and Evolution”, Bachelor in Physics and Master in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

• 2007 – present: coordinator of the 3 ECTS master course Research Projects I, Master in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

• 2007 – 2014: Coordinator of all the Master Theses Programme, Master in Astronomy and Astro-physics.

• 2007 – 2009: yearly 6 ECTS course entitled “Binary Stars”, Master in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

• 1999 – 2006: yearly course entitled: “Advanced Stellar Astrophysics”, 30 hours, 4rd year students mathematics and physics.

• 1996 – 2006: 20 hours of the yearly course “Practical Astronomy”, 3rd year students in mathematics.

• 1990 – 2000: full coordination of all the teaching duties at the Institute of Astronomy, Leuven Uni-versity.

• 1993 – 1998: 2 hours/week TA of the basic course in astronomy to second year students in mathemat-ics.

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• 1988 – 1994: 6 hours/week TA of the basic course in mathematics to first year students bio-engineering or sales engineering.

15.2 Supervision of master thesis work

2015: 1 Master thesis 2012: 2 Master theses 2008: 1 Master thesis 2007: 1 Master thesis 2005: 2 undergraduate theses 2003: 2 undergraduate theses 2002: 2 undergraduate theses 2001: 4 undergraduate theses 2000: 1 undergraduate thesis 1999: 8 undergraduate theses 1998: 3 undergraduate theses 1997: 3 undergraduate theses

1996: 4 undergraduate theses, 1 master thesis 1993: 1 undergraduate thesis

1992: 1 undergraduate thesis 1991: 3 undergraduate theses

Each undergraduate (in Dutch) or master (in English) thesis represents research carried out by last-years students during 9 months, for a total of 30 ECTS.

15.3 Additional Teaching Elsewhere

• 2004 – present: yearly (until 2011) and biennial (as of 2012) 6 ECTS course entitled: “Asteroseismol-ogy”, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• 2011 – 2013: annual 5 ECTS course “Astrophysics”, Hasselt University, Belgium.

• 11 – 12/4/2002: Two-day tutorial on “Spectroscopic Mode Identification”, Belgian Asteroseismology Group (8 hours theory + 8 hours computer applications), Leuven, Belgium.

• 15 – 18/10/2001: guest lecture (3 hours) at the 3ie`me Ecole d’Automne (in French): “Comprendre la pulsation et lhydrodynamique stellaire”, Observatoire de Haute Provence, France.

• January – February 2001: Guest Lecturer, Julius Institute, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. First-year’s course “Introduction to Astronomy. Part I: Stars”. (30 hours course + 15 hours practical exercises).

16 Science Communication and Outreach Activities

1. Lecture series “Stellar Evolution”, summer course for 25 High School students, 24 – 27/8/2015, Leuven, Belgium

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2. 19/3/2015: Pupil’s lectures: “Exoplaneten in onze Melkweg” (in Dutch), Saint-Pieters Institute, 70 2nd grade students (ages 15,16), Department of Physics & Astronomy, KU Leuven, Belgium 3. 18/2/2015: KITP Public Lecture: “Starquakes and Exoplanets in our Milky Way Galaxy”, University

of California at Santa Barbara, USA

4. 11/1/2015: Children’s lecture: “The Search for Earth2.0 and Extra-terrestrial Life” (in Dutch, 130 children of age 8 to 12), Technopolis, Mechelen, Belgium

5. 25/11/2014: UTOPIA lecture: “The Ideal Exoplanet” (in Dutch), Organisation Metaforum, University of Leuven, Belgium

6. 12/10/2014: Public Event connected to the 2014 International SOLVAY Conference on Cosmology and Astrophysics. Lecture entitled “Starquakes and Exoplanets in our Milky Way Galaxy”, Brussels, Belgium

7. 11/4/2014: BBVA Public Lecture in the series Science of the Cosmos, Science in the Cosmos: “As-teroseismology: the study of starquakes and its impact on astrophysics”, Madrid, Spain. Lecture is available on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-pt WpvUyU

8. 9/1/2014: “De Vensters Open op het Heelal” (in Dutch), Lecture (2 hours) for 150 secondary school students (12-13 years old), University of Leuven, Belgium

9. 22/10/2013: Chapter (in Dutch) “Waarom fascineert de Kosmos?”, contribution to the Book “Mee met Morgen: 75 jaar Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten”, Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

10. 21/10/2013: Lecture (2 hours, alternating in Dutch and French), Belgian Senate ProLege: “Echografie van Sterren Dankzij Asteroseismology/ Échographie des étoiles grâce à l’astérosismologie”, Brussels, Belgium

11. 14/10/2013: Lecture Event (3 hours), University of Hasselt, (in Dutch: Universiteit 3de leeftijd): “Doorbraken in Ster- en Exoplaneetonderzoek dankzij de ruimtemissies CoRoT en Kepler”, Hasselt, Belgium

12. Jubilee lecture “Echografie van Sterren dankzij Asteroseismologie” (in Dutch), University of Hasselt, Belgium, 22/11/2012

13. Professor’s lunch, Soeterbeeck Programme: “Seismologie van sterren: een samenspel van technolo-gie, fysica, statistiek en modelleren” (in Dutch), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 15/11/2012

14. Invited duo talk Conny Aerts – Steven Bloemen: “Doorbraken in ster- en exoplaneetonderzoek dankzij CoRoT en Kepler” (in Dutch), Annual Weekend of the Society of Amateur Astronomers of Flanders, 6/10/2012, Deinze, Belgium

15. May 2012 – July 2012: Series of outreach activities connected with the 2012 Francqui prize, including speech during the award ceremony, live interviews on the national TV (Villa Van Tilt, 10/5/2012) and

radio (Babel, 15/6/2012) stations, see also http://www.francquifoundation.be/ang/Rapport%20Aerts%20Angl.htm 16. Lecture “Echografie van Sterkernen dankzij Asteroseismologie” (in Dutch), Amateur organization

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17. Lecture “De impact van de ruimtemissies CoRoT en Kepler op het onderzoek naar variabele sterren” (in Dutch), Working Group Variable Stars, Society of Amateur Astronomers of Flanders, 28/5/2011, Grimbergen, Belgium

18. Paper entitled “Asteroseismologie in het tijdperk van de ruimtemissies CoRoT en Kepler”, Authors: Conny Aerts and Pieter Degroote, journal Zenit, December 2010, p.543 – 548, the Netherlands 19. Lecture “Een blik op het inwendige van sterren via asteroseismologische waarnemingen” (in Dutch),

Amateur organisation, 4/12/2010, Grimbergen, Belgium

20. Lecture series “Stellar Evolution”, summer course for 25 High School students, 24 – 27/8/2009, Leuven, Belgium

21. 2004 – 2009: Contributor to the Production “Sternenrest” by musical artist Willem Boogman, based on the Inaugural lecture, “Kosmische Symfoni¨een”. Producer Roland Spekle and the Spectra Ensem-ble (http://www.sternenrest.nl/files/colofon.html). Performances in the Netherlands, Belgium, Ger-many, UK

22. 2002 – 2007: member of the editorial board of the journal “Karakter: tijdschrift van wetenschap” (in Dutch) published by Academische Stichting Leuven, Belgium

23. 20/4/2007: 2-hour lecture “The sound of the Sun and stars”, Library Zeeland, Middelburg, the Nether-lands

24. 21/12/2006: 30-min lecture “Cosmic Symphonies”, Art Academy of ’s Hertogenbosch, the Nether-lands

25. 12/3/2006: 1-hour Theater Paradiso Lecture: “Cosmic Symphonies”, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (recorded and available as internet lecture; published as book chapter)

26. 5/2/2006: discussion afternoon, organisation Electron, series “Commonalities between Art and Sci-ence”, Breda, the Netherlands. Other speaker: sound artist Jan de Dobbelaer

27. 24/10/2005: 1-hour lecture “Cosmic Symphonies” for students of primary school, LERU-kids (League of European Research Universities), University of Leuven

28. 22/10/2005: 45-minutes lecture “Astronomy” in the framework of Kids-University, University of Leuven

29. 29/4/2005: Live radio interview of 20 minutes broadcasted by Radio 1, series VPRO/Noorderlicht, the Netherlands

30. 5/4/2005: Inaugural lecture, Leerstoel Asteroseismologie, entitled: “Kosmische Symfoni¨een” (in Dutch), Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands

31. 2004–2005: Main actor in the 40-minutes scientific documentary “De Sprekende Ster”/“Paroles d’´etoile” broadcasted by the series overLeven, CANVAS (Flemish National TV), 24/2/2005 and the series Mati`eres Grises, RTBF1 (French-speaking National TV), 11/10/2005 and RTBF2 17/10/2005 32. 8/6/2004: half-day outreach activities in collaboration with amateur astronomers within the Faculty