Ciao! My name is Simone (he/him) and I am an Italian mathematician and science writer. I am currently based in Trieste.
I grew up near the Alps, then did my PhD in Germany (at the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster). I am currently a student of the Master in Comunicazione della Scienza Franco Prattico at SISSA, in Trieste.
I like to tell stories. My main interests are data, tech and society, the politics of research, and how all of this intersects with civil rights and the queer community.
Recent pieces
Lynn Conway: fra rivoluzioni tecnologiche e attivismo
La Falla del Cassero
Being gay in academia: unravelling suffocating contradictions
The PhD Place
Science communication and writing
Writing
- Comunicazione della matematica: il punto dall’estero, on MaddMaths!
- We Don’t Talk About The Integers, on Chalkdust (Issue 19)
- Being gay in academia: unravelling suffocating contradictions, on The PhD Place
- Stories make us human, su DMV Mitteilungen
- Changing the narratives in mathematics, on FancyComma
- How hard is it to tell dynamical systems apart?, on MathStatBites
Public speaking and events
- Corso di autodifesa matematica, a workshop for primary school teachers (with D. Volpatto and A. Zecchino)
Content creation
- Master in Comunicazione della Scienza, where I was part of the team that curated the content for the month of February 2025 (with E. Gallo, M. Merletti and M. Vadilonga Gattermayer)
- Come Volevasi Divulgare, an Instagram account about mathematics (with M. Morbello, R. Tarditi, D. Volpatto and A. Zecchino)
Podcast
I was the host and producer of a podcast called On A Tangent, where I interviewed early-career researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster.