Outreach

Giulia enjoys taking part in outreach activities, and in their organisational aspects. She was an active member of Astronomy on Tap Copenhagen and she is a member of the Scientific Organising Committee of Astrochemistry Discussions. She is involved in projects bridging across science and art such as astromusic, and she is also part of the Niels Bohr Ungdomslaboratoriet (ULAB). The latter designed an experiment to explain the transit exoplanet detection methods to undergraduate students.

Additionally, she is the founder of StarXiv, a weekly journal club of StarPlan, whose aim is to keep researchers updated about the exciting research carried out in the different StarPlan sub-groups, and therefore to promote interactions among them. At Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), she is co-organizing the Königstuhl Colloquim (KoCo), a joint colloquium of MPIA and the Landessternwarte (LSW) of the ZAH, where scientists from both institutions as well as their guests present new results.

Giulia is passionate about astrobiology, and she was a member of Cosmocrops, the iGEM team of the University of Copenhagen. Team Cosmocrops designed a co-culture system to produce a bioplastic (poly-lactic acid) to 3D-print machinery parts on the International Space Station.

Finally, she is part of the movement Astronomers for Planet Earth, and she was a scientific writer for duegradi, a web magazine on climate change.

In her free time, besides doing public outreach, she is learning to play the cello.

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