Articles and essays:
My essay ‘Unseen possibilities: on entanglement and the story of Schrödinger’s Wife’ about quantum physics is in Glasgow Review of Books
My essay ‘A Walk in Berlin’ is in the Climate Action Almanac, edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn and published by the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University
My essay/memoir ‘Foreign Bodies’ is included in Mapping the Posthuman, edited by Grant Hamilton and Carolyn Lau and published by Routledge
My memoir ‘Here Lived’ is in the Golden Hours anthology published by the Edinburgh Literary Salon
My article about the astronomical Euclid mission is in the Frankfurter Rundschau (German only)
My essay on poetry and astronomy ‘We are not special: white pages and dark matter’ is in Corroding the Now, edited by Francis Gene-Rowe, Stephen Mooney and Richard Parker, and published by Veer Books
My essay on the visual aesthetics of astronomical images ‘The Webb telescope shows the Universe as we hope to see it‘ is at ArtReview
My essay Thirty-six Views of the Berlin Wall is at The Real Story
My essay about Frankfurt as an uncanny city is in The Drouth
My memoir The Penelope Stitch about my mum, knitting machines and astronomy is in Quince magazine
My memoir about being a student Studying the Universe from Blackford Hill is at Elsewhere, A Journal of Place
My hybrid essay Alternative Geometries about Valentina Tereshkova, Lise Meitner and my grandmother is in Litro
My flash essay ‘Q is for Quasar’ is in the March 2020 issue of Mslexia
An essay I wrote about my application for German citizenship was published in the Scottish Review of Books
My essay ‘A random walk between Germany and Scotland’ is included in the anthology A Place They Called Home, edited by Donna Swarthout and published by Berlinica
My essay about European astronomers working in Chile during the Pinochet regime was first published in the New York Times and included in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 anthology
My article in the Independent explores the link between literature and Einstein’s general theory of relativity. I also wrote a Q&A for the Guardian on the same subject.
My article in The Scotsman is about my personal experiences of being an astronomer and how it feels to do this sort of work, standing on a mountaintop staring at the sky.
Reviews:
I regularly review for the Times Literary Supplement and the Sky at Night magazine as well as other publications:
‘Totality’ by Mark Littmann and Fred Espenak in the Sky at Night
The documentary ‘Fire of Love’ in ArtReview
The art exhibition ‘Human Is’ at the Berlin Schinkel Gallery in ArtReview
‘Hidden Wyndham’ by Amy Binns in the TLS
‘Wonders of the Night Sky’ by Bob King in the Sky at Night
‘The Sunlight Pilgrims’ by Jenni Fagan in The Bottle Imp
‘The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension’ by Mark Blacklock in the TLS
‘Hidden Figures’ by Margot Lee Shetterly in the Sky at Night
‘The Ghost: A Cultural History’ by Susan Owens in the TLS
’15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Heart of the Sun’ by Lucie Green in The Spectator