last update September 2014

Selected conference contributions

"Nuclear star clusters in large sample of late-type galaxies from the HST legacy archive" (poster)
June 2013:  "Small Stellar systems in Tuscany, Prato, Italy


"Towards a complete HST catalog of nuclear star clusters" (poster)
March 2013:  "Black Hole Fingerprints: Dynamics, Disruptions and Demographics, Salt Lake City, USA


"Progenitor environment of massive globular clusters - nuclei of dwarf galaxies?" (talk)
Aug. 2012: XXVIII International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly Meeting: "SPS 1 - Origin and Complexity of Massive Star Clusters”, Beijing, China


"Spectroscopic analysis of nuclear and bright globular clusters in nearby dwarf galaxies" (talk)
April 2011, Santiago, Chile,
"Dynamics of Low-Mass Stellar Systems: From Star Clusters to Dwarf Galaxies"

“Formation Efficiencies of Old Globular Clusters: from dwarf to giant galaxies” (poster)
June 2010, Lyon, France, “A Universe of Dwarf Galaxies”

“Nuclear Clusters in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies and Their Connection to Massive Galactic Clusters”
(poster)
Aug. 2009: XXVII International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly Meeting: “IAU 266 Star Clusters Symposium”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"Internal escape velocity of globular clusters: A key parameter for the mass-metallicity relation and the origin of the clusters with hot horizontal branches"
(poster)
July 2008: “Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies and Stellar Clusters”, Garching bei München, Germany

"Properties of Nuclear Globular Clusters in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies from HST/ACS imaging"
(talk)
Feb.2008:Workshop on “Nuclear Star Clusters across the HUBBLE Sequence”, Heidelberg, Germany

"Old Globular Clusters in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies"
(talk)
Dec.2007:Workshop on “Modeling and Observing DEense STellar systems (MODEST-8)”, Bad Honnef, Germany
Aug. 2007: Workshop on “The Globular Clusters - Dwarf Galaxies Connection”, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

"Old Globular Clusters in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies"
(poster)
Jan. 2007: 209 American Astronomical Society Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA

"Low-mass galaxies and their globular cluster systems as probes for galaxy evolution: NGC 1427A, a dwarf galaxy in the heart of the Fornax galaxy cluster"
(poster)
Apr. 2005: Doktoranden-Symposium der Bonner International Graduate School (BIGS), Bonn, Germany

"BVR photometry of M82’s outer regions in search for globular cluster candidates"
(talk)
Nov. 2004: Graduiertenkolleg 787 Meeting: "Galaxy Groups as Laboratories for Baryonic and Dark Matter", Ruhr- Universität Bochum, Germany

"BVR photometry of the outer regions of the starburst galaxy M82" (poster)
Apr. 2004: Serbian-Bulgarian Astronomical Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia