Outreach with Elementary, Middle and High-School Pupils
- Italy - From the 2020/2021 school year, I am participating to Penne Amiche Della Scienza. From 2024, Penne Amiche della Scienza became a registered society and I am one of the founding members and part of the board. Within this Project, I carried out an outreach activity in person with the kids from the Elementary School Venuti in Cortona. With the same School, we realized the experiment of the synchronization of metronomes. Outside of the project, I visited the High School Marco Polo in Florence to talk to students about Mathematical Modeling (Feb 2024).
- Belgium - In the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 school years, I participated to activities of Mathematics and Philosophy with high-school students of the Commonauté scolaire Sainte-Marie, Namur and to Math en jeans, open day of mathematical games for high school students, at University of Namur.
- USA - In the 2023/2024 school year, I participated to Letters to a Pre-Scientist.
Other Outreach and Public Events
- I was a speaker at the 3rd Symposium of the AIRJ (Association of Italian Researchers in Japan) held on Oct 4th 2024 at the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo (Japan) and part of the "Italy Innovation Days" cycle, with a talk (in Italian) titled "The importance of being periodic: phase reduction approach to synchronization, from Huygens' pendula to brain dynamics".
- On Dec 21st 2024 I gave a talk (in Italian) at the Museum of Natural History of Grosseto (Italy) titled "Self-organization in complex systems: the phenomenon of synchronization, from fireflies to heartbeat".
- I was an online speaker at the XIX Conference of Italian Researchers in the World, to held at the EU Parliament in Brussels (Belgium) on May 23rd 2025.
- On Jul 28th 2026, I participated in the Falling Walls Lab Tokyo event, where early-career researchers present the impact of their work in three minutes, and I was awarded third place.
Engagement for Equality and Diversity
- Together with my colleagues Lorena Ballesteros Ferraz (who conceived and founded the first online edition in 2021), Sébastien Mouchet and Aishwarya Saxena, I helped establish the in-person workshop Women and Girls in Science at University of Namur (Belgium) in 2022. Since then, the workshop has become an annual event on Feb 11th.
- With colleagues from Namur, we wrote a column on Europhysics News on the Matilda Effect and the editorial for the 2024 calendar of Inspiring Women in Physics, featured in Europhysics News, where I was also interviewed (full interview here).
- We wrote a short article on the Belgian Mathematical Society Newsletter on how we can help the advancement of Mathematics in developing countries. Recently, we also wrote an opinion article on what Early Stage Researchers can do against inequalities on SPIE news, the journal of the International Society for Optics and Photonics.