Ciao! I am Simone (he/him). In another life, I was a research mathematician. Now, I am a freelance science communicator, living somewhere in the intersection of public engagement, science education, and visual storytelling.
🧮 I believe that challenging narratives around mathematics and building a movement of mathematics positivity is crucial for the health of our democracy.
🎡 Most of my daily work involves making complex topics more accessible through a tragic sense of humour, an unhealthy amount of stories, and a lot of sketching.
Some of my work
- Visuals
- Writing
- Education
- Other media
🌍 The theme of ICTP‘s booth at 2025’s Trieste Next was Global Science for a Sustainable Future: in line with this idea, I assembled some names and contributions from the Global South that we often “forget” to include in the history of mathematics. The graphics were displayed on a cube, so that visitors and bystanders could engage with the content.
🎈This stop-motion data visualization was created to showcase the growth of extreme publishing authors in eight countries (including Italy) from 2020 to 2022. It was built as part of an explanatory piece of content on extreme publishing practices for OttaviaLAB. Source: Evolving patterns of extreme publishing behavior across science
23.09.2025
Aula di Scienze (Zanichelli)
29.08.2025
ICTP Website
28.08.2025
DMV Mitteilungen
26.08.2025
ICTP website
20.08.2025
ICTP website
18.08.2025
ICTP website
13.08.2025
ICTP website
05.08.2025
ICTP website
12.06.2025
Newsletter
28.05.2025
Scienza in Rete
Un CERN per l’intelligenza artificiale: siamo già in ritardo?
20.05.2024
Chalkdust Magazine
09.12.2023
Mitteilungen DMV
11.11.2023
The PhD Place
🧮 Ottavia: I dati intorno a noi è un percorso di avvicinamento all’utilizzo dei dati per indagare la realtà, sviluppato da OttaviaLAB. Unisce statistica, igiene dell’informazione e arte, per fornire a studentesse e studenti gli strumenti necessari a dissezionare e verificare gli input ricevuti dal mondo social. Nell’anno scolastico 2025/2026, il laboratorio è ospitato dal Liceo Artistico Statale “Enrico e Umberto Nordio” di Trieste, e finanziato dalla SISSA e dal Comune di Trieste.
“I wanted to learn how nature really works”
Videointerview
Some of the people I have worked with
