Orbyts is a multi-award-winning movement that partners scientists with schools to empower school students to undertake world-leading research. We aim to address diversity issues in science and to support short-supply science teachers who have extensive time pressures. From 2023 I became an Orbyts fellow and I am leading research activities in remote with the students of the Liceo Scientifico Galileo Ferraris of Torino, Italy. During our meetings I teach them stellar physics, computational methods for population synthesis, and we research together the presence of exoplanets in the Milky Way.

Hosted by Konkoly Observatory at the Benczúr Hotel, Budapest, Hungary, I had the privilege of being a teaching assitant for this school. My role was to prepare a laboratory where students could simulate massive binaries from their birth through mass transfer interactions until the core collapse of the primary star into a neutron star. From there, the laboratory continued through the recalculation of the new binary parameters after the Blaauw kick and consequently the students simulated the evolution of the binary until the initiation of a common envelope events, when they calculated the final outcome of this mass transfer

Just after my Master's degree I didn't want to start a PhD straight away, since I always saw the choice of a PhD as almost a commitment to a specific research topic, and honestly this is on average what happens in research. I therefore decided to apply for the Erasmus Traineeship funds to have a research experience on a completely different topic. For five months in 2019 I worked as a research assistant at MPE in the Infrared group under Reinhard Genzel (he won the Nobel prize in 2020). I worked on the development of a toolbox to analyse the interferometric observations of SgrA*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. Fun experience. Awesome place.

During my Master's degree I did an internship at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels. Among the other projects that I participated to, I worked on the characterisation of the Moon And Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer, which is one of the main instruments onboard of the ESA JUICE spacecraft. In the future, when JUICE will reach the Jovian system, it will help us understand the composition, structure and physical properties of Jupiter's atmosphere and its four major moons.