Outreach

🎤 Public Events

• Voir l’invisible : comment observe-t-on le boson de Higgs avec le détecteur ATLAS (Seeing the invisible: how do we observe the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector) Les Mercredis du LAPP et du LAPTh. (2026)

• Il bosone di Higgs in un bicchiere d’acqua (The Higgs Boson in a glass of water) A popular science conference targeting students, presented in numerous Italian high schools and public events (and virtually held in 2020!). (2015–present)

• Soirée “10 ans du boson de Higgs” au LAPP
  Public conference celebrating the anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery. (2022)

• Da dove viene il 99% della massa della materia ordinaria? (Where does 99% of ordinary matter come from?)
  Virtual conference for the Leeds EN-IT Interpreting Practice Sessions. (2020)

• Misurare le proprietà del bosone di Higgs (How to measure the Higgs boson properties)
  Virtual conference for the “La Via delle Scienze” Spring 2020 series. (2020)

• Mattoncini elementari (Elementary Bricks)
  Virtual workshop at the 2020 INFN Kids Summer Camp. (2020)

• Comunicare la fisica al tempo dei social? (How to communicate physics in the social network era?)
  Public seminar at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. (2017)

• Il compendio delle teorie squinternate (The compendium of tattered theories)
  Conference at the Festival della Comunicazione, Camogli, Italy. (2016)

• Explaining the Higgs Boson with LEGO bricks
  Conference at the Festival delle Scienze, Rome, Italy. (2015)

• The dance of science
  Invited presentation and roundtable on LHC physics at Orvieto Scienza 2015, Orvieto, Italy. In collaboration with INFN. (2015)

• Si può spiegare il bosone di Higgs? (Can the Higgs boson be explained?)
  Conference at the Festival della Comunicazione, Camogli, Italy. (2015)

• Looking for the Immeasurably Small
  TED talk at TEDx Lake Como. (2012)

• CERN Outreach Volunteer (2005–present)
  ATLAS guide in Italian, English, and French
  Participated in CERN Open Days (2013, 2019)

🌐 Blogs and Podcasts

• Borborigmi di un fisico renitente (Rumbles of a resistant physicist)
  A popular-science blog in Italian focused on particle physics communication (2006–present)

• Tu che sei un fisico (You who are a physicist)
  A podcast answering physics-related questions from the audience (8 episodes, 2020)

• Blogging ICHEP 2010
  Collective blog for the 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics in Paris (2010)

📚 Books

• Particelle familiari (Familiar particles)
  Laterza, Italy, 2014
  A popular science book unveiling the job of a particle physicist looking for the Higgs boson in dialogues with his five-year-old daughter, his wife, and other family members.
  Award: “Maria Antonia Gervasio” Literary Award – Le Due Culture, Best popular-science book (2014)

  

📺 TV and Radio

• Inside CERN
  Participation in the BBC 2 Horizon documentary. (2016)

• It’s all Einstein’s fault! (Tutta colpa di Einstein)
  Appearance on the Italian TV show aired on Italia 1. (2015)

• Numerous interviews and panels on Italian and Swiss public radio, discussing developments in particle physics. (2010–present)

  • What happens during the LHC shutdown? — Le Oche, Radio Popolare Milano (14/02/2019)
  • The practical value of science — Millevoci, RSI (08/06/2017)
  • Interview by BreakingLab podcast — Radio Statale (28/02/2017)
  • Interview with It’s all Einstein’s fault! conductor — RSI (17/09/2016)
  • Einstein’s garden: the electroweak force — RSI (30/01/2016)
  • The history of the Higgs boson — StoccolmaRoma podcast (10/02/2015)
  • The science of Interstellar — Radio 3 Scienza, Radio 3 (11/11/2014)
  • Interview about Familiar particles book — Radio 3 Scienza, Radio 3 (05/08/2014)
  • Seeing the invisible — Memos, Radio Popolare Milano (08/10/2014)
  • A nearly-Nobel Prize for CERN — Scintille, RSI (16/10/2013)
  • Particle physics and LEGO bricks — Scintille, RSI (26/06/2013)
  • Emotions and reactions after the Higgs discovery — Radio 3 Scienza, Radio 3 (05/07/2012)
  • Rumours and scientific communication — Radio 3 Scienza, Radio 3 (02/07/2012)
  • Superluminal neutrinos? — Scienza Speciale 42, RSI (25/10/2011)
  • What’s behind superluminal neutrinos? — Radio 3 Scienza, Radio 3 (05/10/2011)
  • What else is there in the cosmos? — Millevoci, RSI (09/05/2011)
  • The particle physics “commune” — Radio 3 Scienza, Radio 3 (05/04/2010)

📰 Press

• Paperino e Paperoga al CERN! (2015)
  A story by Francesco Artibani with yours truly in Disney format, on Topolino n. 3136

  

• Comics & Science @ CERN (2014)
  Organizer and co-author of the comic book OraMai (NeverNow), in collaboration with the CERN Internal Communication Office.

  

• Numerours articles and interviews in newspapers and magazines
  Selected contributions:
  • The crackpot index, Il Manifesto (Alias) (03 Sep 2016)
  • Something new at the LHC? Only time will tell, Le Scienze (19 Dec 2015)
  • Little Einsteins, Style Piccoli (interview)
  • 09 Oct 2013 — A model Nobel, La Nazione Ticino (10 Sep 2015)
  • Sixty years of CERN, La Nazione Ticino (interview) (04 Feb 2014)
  • Imagine a night at CERN, Meridiani Svizzera (interview) (Dec 2013)
  • Elementary physics of everyday time, Camminiamo Insieme (interview) (Sep 2013)
  • Scientists and navigators, D la Repubblica n. 813 (interview) (Oct 2012)
• Author of the science section of DafDaf (Italian monthly magazine for children aged 6–11) (2012-2015)
  Selected articles:
  • Why do metal boats float, and metal spoons sink?, DafDaf n. 56 (May 2015)
  • My name is Philae, and I ride a comet, DafDaf n. 53 (*Feb 2015)
  • Measuring time, DafDaf n. 49 (Aug 2014)
  • Finding the way among the stars, DafDaf n. 46 (Jun 2014)
  • Why is it dark at night?, DafDaf n. 43 (Apr 2014)
  • Bits of cosmic honey, DafDaf n. 39 (Dec 2013)
  • Colors appearing, colors disappearing, DafDaf n. 34 (Jul 2013)
  • Mathematics and soap balls, DafDaf n. 29 (Feb 2013)
  • Water, DafDaf n. 23 (Aug 2012)
  • Air, DafDaf n. 22 (Jul 2012)