Rohan — Outreach

Outreach and Professional Activites

I always strive to use my experience and technical knowledge to generate solutions, work towards goals that benefit general public and contribute to aiding growth of the astronomical community. Here are some of the awsome opporunities I have had to learn, participate and support scientific outreach.

Golden Webinar in Astrophysics

Panelist on webinar series wherein I interact with prominent speakers from distict field of Astrophysics, ask audience questions to the speaker and provide resources to audience members through networking and scientific resources realted to their questions. Youtube Page
European Astronomy Society

Volunteered 12+ hours at the EAS 2021 virtual meeting. As a host of zoom sessions I was reponsible for setting up presentation, monitoring and managing speakers. I was also speaker host and conductor for the PubQuiz social event and developed the game night map on GatherTown.
American Astronomy Society

Volunteered 12+ hours at the 235th meeting to be Plenary session (>100 attendies) monitor, Press office assistant and Exhibit Hall helper (>50+ Posters). Recieved complementary meeting registration for my efforts and opportunity to engage with plenary speakers.
Public Outreach at Ritter Observatory

Was reponsible for setting up and conducting public observation nights to present guided tour of Toledo's night sky thorugh showing of stars and/or planets. Also answered astronomy related questions of young and adult participants. Website

Outreach and Professional Activites

Golden Webinar in Astrophysics

European Astronomy Society

American Astronomy Society

Public Outreach at Ritter Observatory