A double feature with Kai Riehle

Sometimes, when you give a presentation, it just feels right and when you are done, you know that you delivered well. Doesn’t happen all the time, but sometimes, I’m that lucky.

Last week I was very happy to present a joint talk with archaeologist Kai Riehle on Local pottery production and imports at Monte Iato: A Chemical Perspective. The venue was the COLLOQUIA ON PORTABLE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE, a series of such joint lectures planned and organized by the The Global p-XRF Network. And yes, that is a network focusing on portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, which I usually don’t use and am no expert in. However, Michaela Schauer, one of the initiators of this network kindly asked me to present on Neutron Activation Analysis. I hope I did not dissapoint.

The presentation was recorded and I’m happy to link it here:

As I said, I’m very happy about this talk myself, but Kai did really great as well. The discussion afterwards was very interesting, so all in all, it was a very nice evening. Thank you very much to the chair, Prof. Ioannis Liritzis and to Keelie Rix, who took the brunt of the organisation, herding Kai and me :-).

A short visit to Greece 

This last few days I was able to flee the approaching bad weather in Vienna and travel to Greece. My first stop was at Aegina, an island only 70 minutes by ferry from Athens. There I visited the famous archeological excavation at Aegina Kolonna and was allowed to take samples from to pieces of pumice found there […]

Invited Talk in Dresden

[bibshow] Scientific insights into arts and cultural heritage The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden and the Hochschule der bildenden Künste Dresden cooperate to host a series of evening lectures where scientists from France, Germany and Austria will present their research on cultural artefacts dating from the stone age to the modern era to the […]

SAAGAS 25

On sunday night I arrived in Aachen for this year’s Seminar on Activation Analysis and Gamma Spectroscopy (SAAGAS 25). It’s good to meet with all my colleagues again and I’m very happy to have Veronika present her work on the Szilard-Chalmers Effect of Molybdenum. She’s giving her talk right now and is wowing all those […]