PROJECTS
Ottavia:
i dati intorno a noi
Work in progress!
FRODE!
Storie di bugie scientifiche
FRODE! is a collaborative, narrative podcast developed by the class of 2025 of the Master in Comunicazione della Scienza “F. Prattico” at SISSA.
Forgotten mathematicians
(TriesteNext)
Work in progress!
On A Tangent:
Stories of Mathematics Münster
On A Tangent is a podcast focusing on the stories of early-career mathematicians at the Cluster of Excellence “Mathematics Münster”. Each episode featured an interview that I hosted and produced, as part of the Science Communication team of the Cluster.
WRITING
29.08.2025
ICTP Website
Two Diploma Students Share 2025 Shafi Prize
Two of this year’s Postgraduate Diploma Programme’s top students have been chosen as recipients of the Qaisar and Monika Shafi Prize, an annual award given to the most outstanding scholars in the programme…
28.08.2025
DMV Mitteilungen
“You have to really care for the world”
Science communication is about building platforms to amplify the voices that might go unheard…
26.08.2025
ICTP website
Extreme Experiments on Solid Foundations
When ICTP alumni Keshav Shrestha began his PhD at the University of Houston in the autumn of 2010, he realized that his strong foundation in theoretical physics made both his coursework and research progress smoother…
20.08.2025
ICTP website
“There is nothing uninteresting in maths”
Abdilaziz Komilov’s interest in maths started before his university time, back when he was still in high school. “My interest was mainly in maths olympics,” he explains…
18.08.2025
ICTP website
“It wasn’t just maths or physics, it was about more”
Solafa Fadlallah’s studies have brought her to three different countries, four if you include Italy. She obtained a bachelor’s in chemical engineering at the University of Khartoum…
13.08.2025
ICTP website
Harmonic analysis in Eastern Africa
Every year, ICTP and the Eastern African Universities Mathematics Programme (EAUMP) come together to organize a summer school on important mathematical topics...
05.08.2025
ICTP website
Uniting African physicists
When G. Gebreyesus Hagoss joined the African School for Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA) for the first time, he came from a completely different physics background. “For me, the principle was always straight. Science is about community…
12.06.2025
Newsletter
“Mathematics was never enough for me”
To some mathematicians, mathematics’ distance from reality is a coveted quality. Abstraction and elegance speak directly to them. To others, it leaves an intellectual itch that can’t quite be scratched by mathematics itself. Roberta Sirovich sits firmly amongst the latter...
28.05.2025
Scienza in Rete
Un CERN per l’intelligenza artificiale: siamo già in ritardo?
L’Europa del secondo dopoguerra aveva un problema: i principali centri di ricerca in fisica si trovavano negli Stati Uniti, dove i talenti avevano accesso a fondi e strumenti per portare avanti esperimenti anche piuttosto costosi...
18.03.2025
La Falla del Cassero
Lynn Conway, fra rivoluzioni tecnologiche e attivismo
Quando nel 1964 viene assunta dall’IBM per collaborare alla creazione di uno dei primi supercomputer, Lynn Conway ha già tentato di iniziare il percorso di affermazione di genere…
20.05.2024
Chalkdust Magazine
We Don’t Talk About The Integers
Looking for structure comes naturally for human beings. Gazing over a landscape and identifying patterns; reading poems and feeling where the beat lies; staring at paintings and figuring out the stories being told...
09.12.2023
Mitteilungen DMV
Stories make us human
Each one of us has a unique story, a unique path that has led us to research, a unique set of reasons to pursue it. And yet, there is always a common denominator, a shared experience: the dreaded moment…
11.11.2023
The PhD Place
Being gay in academia
Growing up as a gay man in rural Catholic Italy is a game of mixed signals. In the early 2000s, when I was a kid, representation of queer people in media was always along a certain stereotype…
OTHER MEDIA
“I wanted to learn how nature really works”
Videointerview