Willeke Mulder

[co-founder] Treasurer, Designer promotional material

ASTRONOMY ON TAP GRONINGEN

• Responsible for creating, collecting, and up-dating the budget of the organisation, provided by three external sponsors
• Designing, managing and ordering of the promotional material of Astronomy on Tap Groningen

UNAWE, Universe Awareness

DISCOVERY CLUB

• UNAWE aims to inspire, educate and entertain children in (emergency) refugee centres and to provide them with a sense of much needed normalcy and skills in global citizenship and intercultural awareness.
• Designing of a day program to increase knowledge of astronomy by use of crafting, an interactive astronomy course and giving children the ability to discuss their thoughts about the universe. Goal: two visits to the refugee centre in Burgum to implement our activity. Target audience: 117 children.

Guider of the Robotics department

DE JONGE ONDERZOEKERS

•’De Jonge Onderzoekers Groningen’ offers young people, between the age of 8 and 18, knowledge and workshops about technology and science. This is done in a accessible manner where they can choose there department of interest every Wednesday and Saturday.
• Designing an educational program based on Lego Mindstorms Education by using Adobe Illustrator to create instruction cards. By different levels, the attendees will follow tasks explained on different ’instruction cards’. To complete the tasks they have to fill in a separate worksheet. After completing all tasks of a specific level, the attendee receives a certificate.

Secretary of study association T.F.V. 'Professor Francken'

SECRETARY & COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION 2016-2017

• Providing secretarial support in the board of the study association of Applied Physics at the UoG.
• Responsible for the Educational Support of T.F.V. 'Professor Francken'.

Association Committees

SECRETARY & COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION 2016-2017

T.F.V. 'PROFESSOR FRANCKEN' and UNITAS SG

2013 Freshmen committee at T.F.V. 'Professor Francken', secretary
2013 Bar & 'Kroegdies' & Introduction week committee at SG Unitas, general member
2014 Bar & Gala committee at SG Unitas, general member the Netherlands
2015 Weekend committee at T.F.V. 'Professor Francken', secretary
2015 Bar committee at SG Unitas, bar team chairman
2016 Weekend committee & Activity committee at T.F.V. 'Professor Francken', chairman
2017 - 2019 Promotion committee at T.F.V. 'Professor Francken', general member

Website and Assistent Outreach coordinator

• ASSISTANT OUTREACH COORDINATOR: Organising events under the scope of the the Blaauw Observatory, e.g. Star Gazing Days, Night of the Nights, educational events, e.g. weekendschool, collaboration with UNAWE, exhibitions, updating websites regarding Outreach of the institute and the full responsibility of planning, arranging and organising the visits of the Kapteyn mobile planetarium.
• RUG WEBSITE COORDINATOR KAPTEYN ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE: Updating the RUG website of the Kapteyn Institute, hosted by the University of Groningen. Obtaining knowledge from staff members of the institute. Collecting and connecting personal requests from staff members. Designing a new clear structure with renewed articles.

Astronomy Promostudent

• EMPLOYEE FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, VOORLICHTINGSTEAM: Organiser of and assistance during the educational open days at the University of Groningen. Responsible for arranging the speakers, presentations and a proper conduct of the day. Organiser of and assistance during the student for a day at the University of Groningen. Creating educational material for an exoplanet and black hole lecture for high school students.
• EMPLOYEE ’JOUWENERGIEVANMORGEN’ TRUCK: Tutoring and assistance of lectures of Physics to high school students at several high schools located in the Netherlands. Responsible for distribution of Information regarding generating renewable energy e.g. Solar panels, piezo crystals. This responsibility goes together with making students enthusiastic about all Natural sciences as physics, mathematics and chemistry.

ADASS XXIX - The astrometric calibration software system for Euclid’s External Surveys

• DATA SCIENCE For ESA’s Euclid mission multi-band ground-based imaging data will be provided by multiple surveys that need to be combined into a homogeneously calibrated data set that can be combined with Euclid space-based imaging. The “EXT Processing Function” handles calibration and validation of ground-based images by placing them on an evolving Euclid astrometric and photometric reference frames. The EXT PF and the prototype database table handling system that deals with the evolving reference frame are discussed.

ADASS XXIX - Hackathon

• DATA SCIENCE & EDUCATION We organised a Youth Hackathon to attract students with an interest in data science and astronomy. The purpose was to show how important data science is in the field of astronomy, and vice versa. In addition, the students had the opportunity to engage with astronomical programming and data in a practical way. We describe the objectives, implementation, results, and evaluation.

BSc thesis - Calibration of a 11 GHz Pickett-Potter Horn and measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background

• INSTRUMENTATION This project is based on building a 11 GHz radio telescope, with the goal to measure the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The whole project was divided among four students which all focused on different topics. In this thesis the calibration of the telescope is devised and tested.

Introduction to Programming and Computational Methods

• The course is an introduction to techniques which can be applied by a student to solve numerical problems related to astronomy.