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Public Outreach

My approach to outreach blends education, cultural exchange, and creative experimentation. I currently mentor high school students preparing for physics olympiads, and regularly give talks in schools and public venues. I’ve led hands-on workshops in cosmology, contributed to bilingual educational programs, and given invited lectures at international schools and cultural centers in Korea. As a French scientist based in Seoul, I’ve been actively involved in fostering scientific and cultural dialogue between France and Korea—through collaborations with embassies, cultural institutes, and educational organizations.

I also host high school students from the French school for short internships, offering them a first immersion into the world of scientific research—encouraging them to ask questions, engage with data, and experience how science is actually done. Through collaborations with artists, I’ve explored new forms of storytelling that bring scientific ideas to life—co-creating VR experiences that revisit traditional Korean constellations through a contemporary lens, and consulting on speculative Martian greenhouse designs. These projects reflect a broader commitment—not only to making science visible and approachable, but to encouraging public dialogue, imagination, and questioning—spaces where new forms of understanding can emerge.

Public talk at the Lycée Français de Seoul

2024

Public talk on cosmology

Public talk at the Lycée Français de Seoul
Public talk at the Lycée International Xavier in Seoul

Jun 2023

"A Brief History of the Universe": public talk to French speaking high-school students

Public talk at the French Cultural Center in Seoul

Apr 2023

"A Brief History of the Universe": public talk (in French) to French learners with simultaneous interpretation in Korean 

Virtual Reality visualization of Korean traditional constellations

Collaboration with artist Sung-A Jang.

We identified ancient Korean constellations in the Hipparcos and Gaia catalogues, and visualized them in an interactive 3D map we created in virtual reality.  

Daejeon International Science Fair 2016

Daejeon International Science Festival: France booth

October 2016

Presentation of French science and scientists, with Korean interpretation

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