Invited & Contributed talks

Invited & review talks

• Invited: The LEWIS project, at the Workshop entitled "10 Years of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies: Past Perspectives and Future Prospects", 18-22, August 2025, Benasque, Spain

• Invited colloquium: The integral-field spectroscopy of Ultra-diffuse galaxies with MUSE: the LEWIS project, at Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, May 28, 2025

• Invited colloquium: The integral-field spectroscopy of Ultra-diffuse galaxies with MUSE: the LEWIS project, at INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari, Italy, March 6, 2025

• Invited colloquium: The integral-field spectroscopy of Ultra-diffuse galaxies with MUSE: the LEWIS project, at Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, October 17, 2024

• Review panelist: LSB galaxies: observations versus simulations, at ''A new dawn of dwarf galaxy research'' workshop, Lorentz Center, Leiden (The Netherlands), 8-12 Apr 2024

• Invited colloquium: The integral-field spectroscopy of Ultra-diffuse galaxies with MUSE: the LEWIS project, at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, March 6, 2024

• Invited: The assembly history of galaxies in a cluster environment, at the 109° Congresso Nazionale SIF, September 11-15, 2023, Salerno, Italy

• Invited: The assembly history of galaxies in the Hydra I cluster, at the 23rd Gamow International Astronomical Conference (virtual), August 21-25, 2023, Odesa, Ukraine

• Invited: Intragroup & Intracluster light, at the Symposium S11@EAS2021 on "Low Surface Brightness Universe”, virtual conference, July 2021

• Review: The Zoo of Galaxy Components at the workshop "Dynamical Reconstruction of Galaxies”, Lorentz Center, Leiden (The Netherlands), 17 - 21 February 2020

• Invited: Stellar halos and intracluster light from the Fornax Deep Survey at the Conference "Light in the suburbs: structure and chemodynamics of galaxy halos”, in Sexten Center for Astrophysics, Sexten (Italy), 9 - 14 June 2019

• Invited colloquium at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna. Title: The Deep (photometric and spectroscopic) Surveys of the Fornax Cluster. May, 2019

• Invited: VEGAS: VST survey of Early-type GAlaxieS at the Conference ”VST in the era of the large sky surveys”, Naples (Italy), 5 - 8 June 2018

• Review: Narrow Polar Rings vs Wide Polar Rings/Disks Galaxies at the Conference on "Multi-Spin Galaxies”, Naples (Italy), INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Sept 30 - Oct 3, 2013

• Invited: Galaxy interactions and merging: the several stories for Polar Ring/Disc galaxies at the Special Session on "Morphology and Kinematics of Interacting Galaxies”, at EWASS2012, Rome (Italy), Pontificia Università Lateranense, July 201

Contributed talks:

1. Unveiling the Connection: Intra-cluster Light and HI Mass as Tracers of Environmental Processes?, at the PHISCC workshop 2025, 22 - 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy

2. Low-Surface Brightness research in the Next Era of Astronomy, at the Symposium S11: "European astronomy: science vision beyond 2040" of the European Astronomical Society 2025, University College Cork, Ireland, 23-27 June, 2025

3. Unveiling the structure of low-surface brightness galaxies with SHARP, at the workshop on "Unveiling the Universe with SHARP: a Spectrograph Proposal for MORFEO@ELT", Milano, Italy, September 30 - October 2, 2024

4. Integral-field spectroscopy of ultra-diffuse galaxies with MUSE: the LEWIS project, at the Conference on "The physical processes shaping the stellar and gaseous histories of galaxies", Pisa, Italy, 27-31 May 2024

5.  The “role” of the VST in the era of next-generation surveys, at the 6th Chianti Topics – International Focus Workshop on "Use of small telescopes in the giants era II", Firenze, Italy, 26-29 February 2024

6. The assembly history of the Hydra-I cluster of galaxies, at the ESO Workshop on "A Decade of ESO Wide-field Imaging Surveys", Garching, Germany, 16-20 October 2023

7. Looking into the faintEst WIth muSe (LEWIS): on the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster, at the SS9@EAS2023 on "The universe in 3D: past, present, and future of integral field spectroscopy", 10-14 July 2023, Kraków, Poland

8. Looking into the faintEst WIth muSe (LEWIS): on the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster, at the conference entitled "Hiking through the unexplored Universe: the sunrise of ultra-diffuse galaxies", 26-30 June 2023, Sexten (BZ), Italy

9. Integral-field spectroscopy of ultra-diffuse galaxies, at the workshop entitled "Science with the future WideField Spectroscopic Telescope", 23-26 May 2023, Wien, Austria

10. First Data Release from the VST survey of Early-type GAlaxieS (VEGAS), at the SS14@EAS2021 on "Legacy and stewardship of astronomical archives towards multi-instrument, multi-wavelength and multi-messenger science", Leiden 28 June - 2 July 2021

11. VEGAS-LSS: Mapping the large-scale structure of the Fornax-Eridanus & Hydra I-Centaurus superclusters, at the INAF workshop "VST Beyond 2021”, 10-12 June 2020

12. The deep face of the Fornax cluster: galaxy structure, stellar halos and ICL at the IAU Symp. N. 355, "The Realm of the Low-Surface-Brightness Universe”, Tenerife, 7 - 12 July 2019

13. Stellar halos and low surface brightness features from deep VST surveys at the Conference ”Stellar Halos Across the Cosmos”, Heidelberg, 2 - 6 July 2018

14. A deep look at the outskirts of bright galaxies in the Fornax cluster with VST at the Conference “On the origin (and evolution) of Baryonic galaxy halos”, Galapagos Islands, 13-17 March 2017

15. Unveiling the faint stellar halos of the early-type galaxies in the Fornax Cluster at the Conference ”Baryons at low densities: the stellar halos around galaxies”, ESO Garching, 23-27 February, 2015