Conferences

Select academic seminars and presentations at conferences

2024

  • Invited speaker, Astronomia, Astrofisica, Astrochimica, Astrobiologia symposium, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Oct. 2024.

  • Invited speaker at European Astronomical Society, Padova, Italy, July 2024.

  • Invited speaker, Toward detection of Earth-like planets in the Universe Forum, Beijing, China, June 2024.

  • Plenary talk, Women and Space, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, May 2024.

  • Talk at Exoplanets V conference, Leiden, May 2024.

  • Invited talk at KAVLI-IAU SYMPOSIUM: (Toward) Discovery of Life Beyond Earth and its Impact, Durham, April 2024.

  • Talk at Ariel France annual colloquium, Paris, Jan. 2024.

2023

  • Invited talk, Breakthrough Listen Community Workshop, SKAO Global HQ, Jodrell Bank, Nov. 2023.

  • Talk Ariel consortium meeting, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2023.

  • Invited lecturer, Sagan Summer School, Caltech, Pasadena, US, July 2023.

  • Invited talk, Towards Other Earths III , Porto, Portugal, July 2023.

  • Talk at European Astronomical Society Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 2023.

  • Invited talk, Breakthrough Discussion , Santa Cruz, June 2023.

  • Invited seminar, University of Vienna, Austria, April, 2023.

  • Invited talk Royal Society conference High Resolution Spectroscopy of exoplanets , London, Feb. 2023.

  • Invited talk, RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: Abiotic baselines in astrobiology , Jan. 2023.

2022

  • Invited talk conference Molecules in Extreme Environments: Near and Far, NAOJ, Japan, Nov. 2022.

  • Invited seminar, GPS Caltech, Pasadena, US, Sept. 2022.

  • Talk EPSC conference, Granada, Spain, Sept. 2022.

  • Invited speaker, EAS conference, Valencia, Spain, July 2022.

  • Invited speaker, ADAM 2022, Fredericia, Denmark, June, 2022.

  • Invited speaker, HACK100, Trieste, Italy, June 2022.

  • Invited speaker, McGill Bicentennial Space Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 2022.

  • Invited seminar, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Poland, April 2022.

  • Invited seminar, Centrum Bada? Kosmicznych, Warsaw, Poland, April 2022.

  • Invited speaker, 5th Chianti Topics International Focus Workshop, Florence, April 2022.

  • Eddington Lecture, RAS, UK, April 2022.

  • Eddington Lecture, IoA, Cambridge, UK, March 2022.

2021

  • Invited speaker "PLATO Atmospheres" workshop, Dec. 2021.

  • Invited speaker "Baracchi III" Conference, Nov. 2021.

  • Invited seminar, Earth and Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, US, July 2021.

  • Invited seminar "MoRe-ASI lecture" Italy, June 2021.

  • Invited seminar, UC Santa-Cruz, US, May 2021.

  • Invited seminar, U. of Chalmers, Sweden, April 2021.

  • Invited seminar, Imperial College, London, Feb. 2021.

  • Invited talk ISSI-BJ, Beijing Jan. 2021.

2020

  • Invited talk, oLife Introductory Event, U. of Groningen, Nov. 2020.

  • Invited seminar, INAF Palermo, Italy, Nov. 2020.

  • Talk at EPSC2020, September 2020.

  • Invited talks at JpGU-AGU, Japan, May 2020.

  • Invited seminar, UCL Department of Earth Sciences, London, Jan. 2020.

  • Plenary talk at ARIEL Open Conference 2020, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Jan. 2020.

  • Invited talk, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, Jan. 2020.

2019

  • Invited speaker, World Science Forum, Budapest, Nov. 2019.

  • Invited talk, Konkoly Observatory, Hungary, Nov. 2019.

  • Invited talk, Planet2/RESCEU Symposium 2019, Japan, October 2019.

  • Invited talk, EPSC-DPS Planetary Science Conference, Geneva, September 2019.

  • Invited talk, Conference Stars and their variability, observed from space, University of Vienna, August, 2019

  • Invited Plenary Talk, Portuguese Science Summit Ciência, July, 2019.

  • Public talk, Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, London, July 2019.

  • Talk at EWASS Conference, Lyon, June 2019.

  • Invited talk workshop on Planetary Atmospheres, University of Leeds, UK, June 2019.

  • Invited seminar, University of Vienna, Austria, May 2019.

  • Invited seminar, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, US, May 2019.

  • Invited seminar, Columbia University, US, April 2019.

  • Invited seminar, Yale University, US, April 2019.

  • Invited seminar, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, April 2019.

  • Invited seminar, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, April 2019.

  • Invited seminar University of Exeter, March 2019, UK.

  • Invited seminar, IIA, Bangalore, India, March 2019.

2018

  • Invited seminar, Nanjing University, Nov. 2018.

  • Invited seminar, Sun Yat-Sen University, Nov. 2018.

  • Invited talk, ISSI workshop Understanding the Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres, Bern, Nov. 2018.

  • Invited talk, University of Lisbon, Nov. 2018.

  • Invited talk, University of Oslo, Nov. 2018.

  • Invited seminar, Sapienza University, Rome, Oct. 2018.

  • Invited lecture, UCL Alumni, Oct. 2018.

  • Invited seminar, Instutute of Astronomy, Cambridge, Oct. 2018.

  • Invited seminar, Lund University, Oct. 2018.

  • Invited talk, ARIEL Italian workshop, Rome, Oct. 2018.

  • Invited talk, CASE Site visit - JPL, Pasadena, Sept. 2018.

  • Talk ARIEL workshop, University of Leuven, Sept. 2018.

  • Invited talk, Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, June 2018.

  • Invited seminar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, May 2018.

  • Invited seminar, GPS Caltech, Pasadena, May 2018

  • Invited talk, workshop Stars, Planets and Galaxies, Harnack-Haus, Berlin, April 2018.

  • Invited seminar, Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, April 2018.

  • Invited talk, ARIEL workshop, CEA, Paris, March 2018.

  • Talk at EWASS NAM, Liverpool, March 2018.

  • Invited talk, Physical Society, London, Feb.2018.

2017

  • Invited seminar, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, Dec. 2017.

  • Invited talk, 13th Appleton Space Conference, UK, Dec. 2017.

  • Invited seminar, RESCEU symposium, University of Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2017.

  • Invited seminar, ANU Canberra, Australia, Sept. 2017.

  • Invited seminar, UNSW, Sydney, Sept. 2017.

  • Invited seminar, USQ, Toowoomba, Australia, Sept. 2017.

  • Talk EPSC conference, Riga, Sept. 2017.

  • ESA M4 public presentations, Paris, July 2017.

  • Invited seminar University of Manchester, June 2017.

  • Invited seminar University of Edinburgh, April 2017.

  • Invited talk, conference Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, Venice, Italy, March 2017.

  • Talk at Astronomical Society of India conference in Jaipur, India, March 2017.

  • Invited seminar, CEA Paris-Saclay, France, Feb. 2017.

  • Invited seminar, University of Trento, Italy, January 2017.

2016

  • Invited talk, FMF symposium, University of Groningen, November 2016.

  • Invited seminar, ETH, Zurich, November 2016

  • Invited seminar, University of Liverpool, UK, November 2016.

  • Invited seminar at ELSI, Tokyo, Japan, September 2016.

  • Invited seminar at ISAS, Tokyo, Japan, August 2016.

  • Oral presentation, SPIE conference, Edinburgh, June 2016.

  • Oral presentation, NAM conference, University of Nottingham, June 2016.

  • Invited seminar, Open University, UK, May 2016.

  • Invited talk, Conference Water in the Universe, ESTEC, April 2016.

  • Invited seminar, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), March 2016.

2015

  • Invited talk, Royal Society, London, Dec. 2015.

  • Invited seminar, Diploma Club, UCL London, Nov. 2015.

  • Invited talk, Astrobiology Society of Britain, UK, Sept. 2015.

  • Invited talk, conference Pathways to habitable planets, Bern, July 2015.

  • Oral presentation, National Astronomy Meeting, Llandudno, UK, July 2015.

  • Invited talk, conference In the spirit of Lyot , Montreal, Canada, June 2015.

  • Invited seminar, University of Insubria, Italy, May 2015.

  • Invited seminar, University of Leicester, May 2015.

  • Invited seminar, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, May 2015.

  • Invited talk, Venus, Earth and Rocky exoplanets, Pasadena, US, May 2015.

  • Invited talk, conference Atmosphere Science in the Context of CHEOPS, TESS, K2 and PLATO, DLR Berlin, March 2015.

  • Inaugural Professor Lecture, University College London, March 2014.

2014

  • Invited talk, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Sept. 2014.

  • Invited talk, Kent branch of the IoP, University of Kent, Canterbury, Sept., 2014.

  • Invited talk, Spectroscopy for astrophysics and planetology at PAMO/JSM, Reims, France, July 2014.

  • Invited talk, conference Unsolved problems in astrophysics, Budapest, Hungary, July 2014.

  • Oral presentations, National Astronomy Meeting, Portsmouth, UK, June 2014.

  • Invited talk, Workshop on SPICA, Leiden, NL, May 2014.

  • Invited talk, conference Science Goals of a Sub-arcsec. Far-IR Observatory, Rome, Feb. 2014.

  • Invited talk, Colloque de l’AEIS, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, Feb. 2014.

2013

  • Invited talk, Institute of Physics, London, Dec. 2013

  • Invited talk, RAL Space - 9th Appleton Space Conference, Dec. 2013

  • Invited talk, Japan Embassy, London, Dec. 2013

  • Invited seminar, University of Cardiff, Nov. 2013

  • Talk RAS special meeting, The Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory, Oct. 2013

  • Talk workshop EChO2013, ESTEC, July 2013

  • Invited seminar, University of Birmingham, Feb. 2013

2012

  • Invited seminar, University of Sussex, Nov. 2012

  • Invited lecture, Astronomy Ireland, Dublin, Dec. 2012.

  • Invited talk, ROPACS conference, Garching, Nov. 2012

  • Invited talk, National Space Science Center, Beijing, Sep. 2012.

  • Invited speaker in Discussion about Space Economy, World Economic Forum, Tianjin, Sep. 2012.

  • Invited talk, HITRAN conference, Reims, France, August 2012.

  • Invited talk, Euroscience Open Forum 2012, Dublin, July 2012

  • Oral presentation, SPIE conference, Amsterdam, July 2012.

  • Invited seminar, UCL-MSSL, July 2012.

  • Invited talk, Planetary origins & frontier of exploration, Weizmann Institute, Israel, May 2012.

  • Invited seminar, MPS, Lindau, Germany, May 2012.

  • Invited talk, National Astronomy Meeting, Manchester, UK, March 2012.

  • Invited seminar, MPE, Garching, Germany, March 2012.

  • Plenary session invited talk, Royal Society URF Research Conference, Feb. 2012.

  • Invited talk, APEX seminars, UCL, Feb. 2012.

  • Invited seminar, University of Nottingham, January, 2012

2011

  • Invited seminar, Geneva Observatory, Oct. 2011.

  • Invited speaker, conference Extreme Solar Systems II, US, Sep. 2011.

  • Invited talk, ROPACS meeting, Cambridge, July 2011.

  • Invited talk, IOP, Institute of Physics, London, May 2011.

  • Invited seminar, RSSD program, ESA-ESTEC, June 2011.

  • Invited speaker, conference Exploring Strange New Worlds, Flagstaff, May 2011

  • Invited speaker, Schuster Colloquium, University of Manchester, March 2011.

2010

  • Invited seminar, Earth Science Dep., UCL, Dec, 2010.

  • Invited seminar APEX, UCL, Dec. 2010.

  • Invited talk, conference Hubble anniversary, Venice, Italy, Oct. 2010.

  • Invited talk, IAU symposium 276, Turin, Italy, Oct. 2010.

  • Oral presentation, AAS-DPS, Pasadena, US, Oct. 2010.

  • Invited seminar, University of Heidelberg, May 2010.

  • Invited talk, The Faraday discussion, France, May 2010.

  • Invited talk, UK Astrobiology conference, April, 2010.

  • Oral presentation, EGU, Vienna, 2010

  • Invited talk, conference Theory & Observation of Exoplanets, Santa Barbara, US, April 2010.

  • Invited seminar, Oxford University, March 2010.

  • Invited seminar, University of Florence, Italy, March 2010.

  • Invited talk, THESIS workshop, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Feb. 2010.

  • Invited seminar, University of Keele, Jan. 2010.

  • Oral presentation, AAS, Washington DC, Jan 2010.

  • Invited seminar, Imperial College, Dec. 2009.

  • Invited talk, THESIS workshop, Paris, Dec. 2010.

2009

  • Invited review talk, Symposium on Galileo, Keck Institute Space Studies, Pasadena, Nov. 2009.

  • Invited talk, Study week on Astrobiology, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Rome, Nov. 2009.

  • Invited talk, Spitzer Conference, Pasadena, Oct. 2009.

  • Invited seminar, University of Leicester, Sep. 2009.

  • Talk at the Blue Dot Team conference: Pathways to habitable planets, Barcelona, Sep. 2009.

  • Invited talk, High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, Castellamare, Sep. 2009.

  • Invited talk, workshop Water on Earth and Beyond, Durham, Sep. 2009.

  • Invited talk, XXVIIth International Astronomical Union General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 2009.

  • Invited talk, Dep. of Astrophysics, Oxford, June 2009.

  • Invited talk, Observatory of Trieste, May 2009.

  • Invited talk, La Sapienza, Rome, May 2009.

  • Invited talk, ARENA meeting on telescopes in Antarctica, Frascati, Italy, May 2009.

  • Invited talk, Observatory of Pino Torinese, Turin, Italy, April 2009.

  • Talk, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science conference, Hatfield, UK, April 2009.

2008

  • Invited talk University of Southampton, UK, Nov. 2008.

  • Invited talk, Special Session Exoplanets, AAS-DPS, Ithaca, US, Oct. 2008

  • Invited talk workshop on Habitability in our Galaxy, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Oct. 2008.

  • Invited talk, Cool Stars 15, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 2008.

  • Oral presentation, International Workshop on Super-Earths, Nantes, June 2008.

  • Invited talk, NASA Astrobiology Institute director seminar, NASA Ames, May 2008.

  • Invited review talk, IAU symposium on Transiting Planets, Harvard, US, May 2008.

  • Invited talk, ARENA meeting on telescopes in Antarctica, Granada, Spain, April, 2008.

  • Solicited talk, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, April 2008.

  • Oral presentation, National Astronomy Meeting, Belfast, April, 2008.

  • Invited seminar, IAS, Orsay, Feb. 2008.

  • Invited seminar, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, Jan. 2008.

  • Invited APEX talk, University College London, Jan. 2008.

  • Invited talk, Imperial College, London, Jan, 2008.

  • Invited seminar, LUTH, Observatoire de Paris Meudon, Jan. 2008.

2007

  • Invited talk, Royal Astronomical Society Meeting on Astronomy from the Moon, Dec. 2007

  • Invited talk, University of Exeter, UK, Oct. 19th, 2007.

  • Invited talk, University College London, Earth Science Dep., 16th Oct. 2007

  • Invited talk, Royal Astronomical Society meeting, Oct. 12th, 2007.

  • Oral presentation, AAS/Division of Planetary Science, Orlando US, Oct. 2007

  • Invited talk, University College London, Astronomy Dep., Oct. 8th 2007

  • Invited talk, Queen Mary University, London, Oct. 5th, 2007.

  • Invited talk, ARENA meeting on telescopes in Antarctica, Potsdam, Sept. 2007.

  • Invited talk, European Planetary Science Congress, Potsdam, Aug. 2007.

  • Invited talk, Caltech, July 2007.

  • Oral presentation, Bioastronomy, July 2007, Puerto Rico

  • Invited talk, University of Turin, 25 May 2007

  • Oral presentation, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, April 2007

  • Invited talk, Geneva Observatory, 28 March 2007

  • Invited talk, Observatory of Paris Meudon, 20 March 2007

  • Oral presentations, ESO workshop, Santiago, Chile, March 2007

  • Invited talk, École Normale Supériore de Lyon, France, 15 Feb. 2007.

  • Invited talk, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France, 26 Jan. 2007.

  • Invited talk, Observatory of Nice, France, 9 Jan. 2007.

2006

  • 24th Winter School in Theoretical Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem Dec. 2006.

  • Oral presentation at the AAS/Division of Planetary Science, Pasadena, Oct. 2006.

  • Invited talk, University College London, UK, October 2006.

  • Oral presentations at the European Planetary Science Congress, Berlin, Sept. 2006.

  • Invited presentation at the Europlanet N2 meeting, Helsinki, August 2006.

  • Invited talk, Department of Astrophysics, Jet Propulsion Lab, US, May 2006.

  • Invited talk, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech, US, May 2006.

  • Invited talk, NASA-Goddard, US, May 2006.

  • Oral Presentation, American Geophysical Union, May 2006, Baltimore, US.

  • Oral Presentation, Astrobiology Science Conference, Washington DC, March 2006.

  • Invited talk, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Tor-Vergata, Italy, March 2006.

  • Invited talk at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 22nd, 2006.

2005

  • Presentation at the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 2005, San Francisco, US.

  • Oral presentation at IPAC Symposium, Pasadena, Sept. 2005, US.

  • Poster Presentation, AAS/Division of Planetary Science, Cambridge (UK), Sept. 2005.

  • Invited talk, Imperial College, London, July 2005.

  • Oral Presentation, NASA Astrobiology Biennal meeting, Boulder, Apr. 2005, US.

  • Invited talk, Department of Planetary Sciences (GPS), Caltech, Feb. 2005, US.

2004

  • Oral Presentation, AAS/Division of Planetary Science, Louisville, Nov. 2004, US ,

  • Oral Presentation, Bioastronomy 2004, Habitable words, Iceland, July 7-11, 2004.

  • Poster presentation, TPF and Darwin, July 2004, San Diego US.

  • Invited talk, Department of Planetary Sciences (GPS), Caltech, June 2004, US.

  • Poster presentation, EGU annual conference, Apr. 2004, Nice, France.

  • Invited talk, IPAC symposium, Caltech, Apr. 2004, US.

  • Oral Presentation, Annual Conference of Astrobiology, March 2004, NASA-Ames.

  • Invited talk, University of Pisa, Department of Mathematics, Italy, January 2004.

  • Invited talk, Astronomical Observatory of Torino, Italy, January 2004.

  • Invited talk, University of Torino Faculty of Physics, Italy, January 2004.

  • Poster presentation, Astrobiology Science Conference 2004, March 2004, NASA Ames.

2003

  • Poster presentation, AGU annual conference, December 2003, San Francisco.

  • Poster presentation, AAS-DPS meeting, Monterey, September 2003.

  • Poster presentation, the Astrobiology Science Conference, February 2003, Tempe. US.

1998-2001

  • Poster presentation, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002, April 2002, NASA Ames.

  • Non Extensive Thermodynamics and physical applications, Villasimius, Italy, March 2001.

  • Poster presentation, SIAM, Pacific Rim Dynamical Systems Conference, Aug. 2000, Maui, US.

  • Invited talk, EEC Carnet annual meeting, Balaton Lake, Hungary, June 1999.

  • Invited talk, EEC Carnet annual meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, April 1998.

Conference Scientific Organising Committees

  • SOC member COSPAR 2020, Exoplanet event, Sydney, Australia.

  • SOC member Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VI, Stockholm, Sweden, April, 2020.

  • SOC member ARIEL Open Conference, ESTEC, NL, Jan. 2020.

  • Session co-convener at EPSC conference in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

  • SOC member, DPS/EPSC conference, Pasadena, US, October 2016.

  • SOC member, EPSC 2015, Nantes, France, Sep. 2015.

  • SOC member, Pathways to Habitable Planets II, Bern, July 2015.

  • SOC member EPSC 2014, Portugal, Sep. 2014.

  • SOC member Hubble Conference, Rome, March 2014.

  • SOC member EPSC 2013, London, Sep. 2013.

  • Session co-convener with J. Cho, EPSC Conference 2012, Madrid.

  • Session co-convener (with G. Micela and A. Coustenis), COSPAR, India 2012.

  • Session convener, AAS-DPS annual conference, Nantes 2011.

  • SOC member conference "Extreme Solar Systems II”, US, Sep. 2011.

  • Royal Astronomical Society Meeting "Exoplanetary Atmospheres", co-organiser with J. Cho and P. Irwin, Feb. 2011.

  • Session convener, Europlanet 2010, Rome, Italy

  • SOC member, conference Hubble Space Telescope, Venice, Oct. 2010.

  • SOC member, IAU symposium 276, Turin Italy, Oct. 2010.

  • SOC member, Blue Dot Team conference: “Pathways to habitable planets”, Barcelona, Sep. 2009.

  • Co-organiser with A. Aylward, Royal Astronomical Society Meeting, “Exo-solar super Earths: detec- tion, atmospheres and internal structures”, Jan 19th 2009.

  • Co-organiser with J.P. Beaulieu and I. Ribas, conference “Molecules in the atmosphere of extrasolar planets”, Paris, Nov 19th-21st 2008.

  • Session convener with M. Fridlund, European Planetary Science Congress, Munster, Sept. 2008.

  • Session convener with M. Fridlund, “Spectroscopic characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres”, Eu- ropean Planetary Science Congress, Potsdam, Aug. 2007.

Select public talks & lectures

  • Festival della luce, Como, Italy 2021.

  • Invited talk, SETI, September 2020.

  • Invited Bolton lecture, Leeds, Nov. 2019

  • Invited talk at Bristol Astronomical Society, Bristol, Nov. 2019.

  • Public talk, Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, London, July 2019.

  • Invited talk at Marlborough College, Nov. 2018.

  • Invited talk at British Astronomical Association Summer Meeting, July 2018.

  • Public talk at National Astronomy Meeting in Liverpool, April 2018.

  • Invited talk, Flamsteed Society, Greenwich, Feb. 2018.

  • Public talk at Science Festival in Genova, Oct. 2017.

  • DIAS School of Cosmic Physics Statutory Public Lecture, Dublin, Oct. 2017.

  • Public talk University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, Sept. 2017.

  • Public talk Planetarium of Brisbane, Australia, Sept. 2017.

  • Public talk New Scientist, London, UK, Sept. 2017.

  • Speaker at Reflets dans l'eau, Torino, Sept. 2017.

  • Invited talk, Society for Popular Astronomy, London, April 2017.

  • Public talk, Climi planetari - che clima fa la' fuori? DEEP program, University of Torino, April 2017.

  • Public talk Royal Institution, London, January 2017.

  • Public evening talk at DPS/EPSC, Pasadena, US, Oct. 2016.

  • Public lecture at Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London, Oct. 2016.

  • TEDx talk Morgan Stanley, London, Nov. 2015.

  • Invited speaker event Made In, Il Circolo dei lettori, Torino, Italy, Feb. 2016.

  • Invited talk at Bayer, Milan June 2015.

  • Invited talk, Flamsteed Society, Greenwich, Jan. 2015.

  • Invited talk, Now. New, Il Circolo dei lettori, Torino, Italy, May 2014.

  • Invited talk, Planetarium of Milan, May 2014.

  • Invited talk, Società Astrofili di Tradate, Italy, May 2014.

  • Invited talk, Planetarium of Palermo, March 2014.

  • Invited talk, AstroFest, London, Feb, 2014.

  • Invited talk, Planetarium of Rome, Nov. 2013.

  • Invited talk, Planetarium of Rome, July 2011.

  • Invited lecture, Summer Science Academy Fondazione Agnelli, Turin, June 2011.

  • Public lecture Premières lumières de nouveaux mondes, Paris, Oct. 2010.

  • Invited speaker, British Science Festival, Birmingham, UK, Sep. 2010

  • Invited speaker, science debate, Trieste, Italy, June 2010.

  • Invited public lecture, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Hatfield, UK, April 2009.

  • Invited talk, Genova Science Festival 2008, Italy, Oct.

  • Invited cycle of seminars organised by CosmoCaixa/La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, Girona and Lleida, Spain, Feb. 2008.

  • Invited speaker at the Science Festival, Genova, Italy, Oct. 2006.

  • Invited speaker, À la recherche des nouveaux mondes, Jussieu, Paris, May 11th 2006.