Podcasts
On A Tangent: Voices of Mathematics Münster was my main project as part of the Science Communication Team of the Cluster of Excellence “Mathematics Münster”. I hosted and produced seven episodes, featuring interviews of early career mathematicians working at the Cluster.
Frode! Storie di bugie scientifiche is a podcast written and produced by the students of the 2024-2025 class of the Master in Science Communication “F. Prattico”. Together with A. Arduino, F. Dattilo, M. Gialanella and M. Merletti, I wrote the episode Le panchine non esistono.
Visualizations and infographics
GIALANELLA, MERLETTI, RAMELLO
Parole e immagini dell’evoluzione
Parole e immagini dell’evoluzione è un’infografica che esplora l’uso di metafore ed espressioni nella spiegazione e divulgazione della biologia evoluzionistica.
Workshops
RAMELLO, VOLPATTO, ZECCHINO
Corso di autodifesa matematica
L’incontro era rivolto a insegnanti della scuola primaria e mirava a offrire esempi di strumenti matematici per la cittadinanza.
Telling mathematical stories
The workshop was part of the Mathematics Münster Graduate School Retreat 2024 and it aimed at discussing and acquiring the important skills for communicating research to peers and to the public. Around fifteen PhD students in mathematics were involved.
Journalism and writing
SCIENZA IN RETE | 28/05/2025
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. Un tipo di risorse che i singoli stati europei non erano in grado di offrire, ma che un ente internazionale avrebbe potuto mettere insieme...
LA FALLA DEL CASSERO | 18/03/2025
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. Una decina di anni prima, quando era studentessa del MIT, aveva incontrato una totale mancanza di supporto medico e sociale, e vi aveva rinunciato. Fiduciosa nel supporto dell’azienda, annuncia nuovamente di voler intraprendere il percorso e viene subito licenziata…
CHALKDUST MAGAZINE | 20/05/2024
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. Structure both guides us and reassures us. Structure lies at the core of mathematics. We look for abstract patterns and scaffolding in all sorts of mathematical phenomena…
MITTEILUNGEN DER DMV | 09/12/2023
Stories make us human
Mathematicians come from all walks of life. 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 when somebody, who does notdo mathematics professionally, asks “So, what do you do?” Or, even worse, “Why do you do it?” We all attempt to answer in one way or another…
THE PHD PLACE | 11/11/2023
Being gay in academia: unraveling suffocating contradictions
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, playing on campness for laughter: many will remember television personality Platinette (and her recent right-wing swerve). In a culture that never quite came to terms with its macho undertones, there was exactly one way to be gay, and that was bound to end up in mockery...