Conferences & seminars

I have given 68 oral and poster presentations at international workshops, conferences and schools, 3 times as keynote speaker, 28 times as invited speaker, 10 times as invited lecturer. The complete list of my talks (updated on 02/12/2025) is available for download as pdf document.

Teaching activity

• Lecturer at the “ICTP School on Synchrotron Radiation and Applications” (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, May 2004 and 2006);
• Lecturer at the “Advanced School on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Sources and their Multidisciplinary Applications.” (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016,2018)
• Lecturer at the “SILS School on Synchrotron Radiation” (Trieste 2007-2019), an international school organized by the Italian Society for synchrotron Radiation (SILS).
• Lecturer for the Ph.D. course in Nanotechnology organized by the University of Trieste (2005,2008,2009)

Event Organization

• Chair of the international workshop LEEM-PEEM6 (6th international workshop on LEEM-PEEM, 7-11 September 2008, Trieste, Centro Congressi della Stazione Marittima)
• Editor of the LEEMPEEM6 proceedings and member of the International Advisory Board of LEEM-PEEM;
• Member of the advisory board of IVC-19 (19th International Vacuum Congress), Paris, 2013 and co-organizer of the Special Symposium “Frontiers in Photoelectron Full-field Imaging and Spectromicroscopy"
• Co-chair of the workshop “Probing Magnetic Dynamics with Ultra-Short Coherent X-ray pulses”, at Elettra's XIV Users' Meeting (Trieste, December 16-18, 2009).
• External co-organizer of the international symposium ALC conference series (International Symposium on Atomic Level Characterizations for New Materials and Devices).
• Co-organizer of the XII European Conference of Surface Crystallography and Dynamics - ECSCD 12 (Trieste, October 18-21, 2015).
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the EMRS Spring Meeting, Symposium CC on Nanomaterials “In situ studies of functional nano materials at large scale facilities: from model systems to applications” (Lille, May 2-6, 2016).
• Organizer of the HERCULES 2019 Local session and practicals @ Elettra/Fermi, April 1-5, 2019. Deputy and co-organizer of the 2018 edition.
• Member of the organizing committee of 17th edition of the school "Gilberto Vlaic: Synchrotron Radiation: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications”.
• Chair of the Workshop QUEST (QUantum matErials for Sustainable Technologies) at Elettra's XXIX Users' Meeting (Trieste, December 2-3, 2024).
• Member of the organizing committee of the thematic workshop NelQMat (New Light for Quantum Materials at FISMAT 2025 (Venezia, July 7-11, 2025).