Writing Experience

I have writing experience in different areas, such as professional scientific writing and writing for the general public, for example for science outreach blogs.

Writing aimed at the general public

Star Trek

In 2019 I had the pleasure of writing a guest blog post for the official Star Trek website about galaxies. You can find the blog post here: “What even is a galaxy, exactly?”

CANDELS

In 2012, my colleagues from the CANDELS collaboration and I started an astronomy outreach blog for the CANDELS project to which a large number of the team members contributed. You can follow the CANDELS collaboration also on Facebook and Twitter. The blog was active between 2012 and 2016 and covered many different topics, such as the research results of the project, life of an astronomer, astronomy 101 and more general astronomy/space news. A collection of the blog post I wrote can be found under this link.

These are the topics and direct links to each of my posts:

Scientific Publications

First and second author publications

Photometric redshifts for galaxies in the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS)
J. Pforr, et al., 2019, MNRAS

Recovering galaxy stellar population properties from broad-band spectral energy distribution fitting II. The case with unknown redshift
J. Pforr, C. Maraston & C. Tonini, 2013, MNRAS

Recovering galaxy stellar population properties from broad-band spectral energy distribution fitting
J. Pforr, C. Maraston & C. Tonini, 2012, MNRAS

Stellar masses of SDSS-III BOSS galaxies at z~0.5 and constraints to galaxy formation models
C. Maraston, J. Pforr et al., 2013, MNRAS

Star formation rates and masses of z ~ 2 galaxies from multicolour photometry
C. Maraston, J. Pforr et al., 2010, MNRAS

Other publications

A full list of my scientific publications can be found on the arXiv.