NORA
Founded the non-profit foundation Nora – Center for Science Communication
COURSE
Created the course Storytelling and Science Communication
BOOK OF INTERVIEWS
R. Mulas.
Stories Behind Theorems: Conversations with Mathematicians
Springer, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-96078-9 (2025)
BOOK FOR CHILDREN
C. Bick, P. Mulas and R. Mulas. Bear Networks
Zenodo, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11186892 (2024)
OUTREACH ARTICLES
Would you speak to me this way if I were a man?
Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 5/27 nr.3 (2026)Being different doesn't make you odd
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 16(1):444–444 (2026)The Aleph of Borges and the Paradise of Cantor
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 12(2):404–410 (2022)Oroscopo 2022 per Matematici e creature simili (2022 Horoscope for Mathematicians and similar creatures)
Published by MaddMaths!, the outreach website of the Italian Mathematical Union.Oroscopo 2021 per Matematici e creature simili (2021 Horoscope for Mathematicians and similar creatures)
Published by MaddMaths!, the outreach website of the Italian Mathematical Union.Matematica e cultura - Recensione di "Imagine Math 7"
Published by MaddMaths!, the outreach website of the Italian Mathematical UnionA Survey on Wild Mathematics
arXiv:2005.01128Neuroscienze, Topologia e Intelligenza Artificiale
written together with Luca Pani and published by the Italian magazine "Formiche" (2017)
INTERVIEWS WITH MATHEMATICIANS
Side by side: interview with Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage and Heather Harrington
Side by side: Interview with Cristiana De Filippis and Tuomo Kuusi
OUTREACH TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS
A few stories
Taster Day for highschool students, VU Amsterdam, 2026Math on Stage: A Storytelling Experiment
Mezrab House of Stories, 2025Teaching and Storytelling
VU Centre for Teaching & Learning, 2025Don't shrink for a stereotype!
Weekend of Science, 2025Dancing out of the box
TEDxVUAmsterdam, 2025How shall we popularize mathematics?
The Netherlands Mathematical Congress, Science Communication Panel, 2025The Royal Society's roundtable on the interdisciplinarity and AI, 2023
La matematica danzante
Comunicamat Conference, University of Camerino, 2022Why and how shall we pupularize mathematics?
Nearly Carbon Neutral Geometric Topology (NCNGT) Conference, 2021Mathematics, Simplicity, Symmetry and Art
Cagliari, Italy, 2019Meine Doktorarbeit in Mathematik
Science Slam, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2018A nice application of Topology to Neuroscience
Conference "Visions in Science VII, Science & Society", Max Planck Society PhDnet, Berlin, Germany, 2018
ORGANIZED OUTREACH EVENTS
Science speaks: Stories that move minds (VU Griffioen Theater, Amsterdam, 2025)
Outreach activities of the VU Mathematics Department at the Weekend of Science (jointly with Gabriele Benedetti and Magnus Botnan, 2025)
Realization of promotional videos for the VU Mathematics Department (jointly with Alessandro Zocca, 2025)
Master Open Days (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, jointly with Gabriele Benedetti, 2023–2024)
Abel Prize Event 2023 for high school students (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, jointly with Gabriele Benedetti)
Celebration of Women in Math (MPI MiS, jointly with Chiara Meroni, 2022)
I have been the organizer and moderator of the Science Slam at the N^2 Conference 2019. Four hundred PhD students took part to this big event.
OUTREACH VIDEOS (MOSTLY IN ITALIAN)
Graph theory, networks, and Paul Erdős - Published by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gli uomini sono più bravi delle donne in matematica? on stereotypes about mathematics and mathematicians. Published by ANSA, the leading news agency in Italy.
La mia ricerca sui network - About networks. Published by the Italian newspaper L'Unione Sarda.
The following videos were published by MaddMaths!, the outreach website of the Italian Mathematical Union:
Il Teorema della palla pelosa - About the Hairy Ball Theorem.
La sfera selvaggia di Alexander - About the Alexander Sphere.
Un minuto di dinamica - About dynamics.
La quarantena perfetta - About Newton.
Quando torna il 2020? - About calendars.
Scacchi e matematica - With Samuele Golfetto, about the connection between chess and mathematics.
Perché i numeri primi sono infiniti? - About mathematical beauty and prime numbers.
Parliamo di nodi - About knot theory.
Perché divulgare la matematica? - On the importance of communicating mathematics.
Matematica, teatro e metafore - With Francesca Arici, about theater and mathematics.
Aleph zero - About Cantor's Paradise.
Numeri triangolari - About triangular numbers.
Tons of holes - With Érika Roldán, about polyominoes and mechanical puzzles.
Un problema di teoria dei grafi - About the Kuratowski's Theorem.
Teniamo le distanze! - About the concept of distance in mathematics.
I colori della matematica - With Josè Stancarone.
IN THE MEDIA
Platform Wiskunde Nederland (the Dutch platform for coordination and promotion of mathematics) published this article about my outreach activities. 2025
Interview for Fratelli Cellino. 2025
MaddMaths!, the outreach website of the Italian Mathematical Union, published this article about my book "Stories behind theorems". 2025
Daniela Molinari wrote this article (in Italian) which also discusses my TEDx talk. 2025
Mathematician Przemysław Grabowski (aka Chemy) interviewed me for his podcast. 2025
BeyondTheEdge published this article in occasion of my talk at the Dutch Mathematical Congress. 2025
This article written by Jasmine Natalini for OpenIMT features one of my mathematical illustrations. 2025
Article on Wired. 2025
VU Amsterdam published this article in occasion of the AIDDA Prize. 2024
The AIDDA association published this article in occasion of the AIDDA Prize. 2024
The Italian newspaper L'Unione Sarda published this article in occasion of the AIDDA Prize. 2024
Video interview for the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (University of Cambridge), in occasion of the HTA satellite programme that I co-organized. 2024
CTA2 published this article about my VENI grant. 2024
The Royal Society's roundtable on interdisciplinarity and AI. Invited by The Royal Society. 2023
Video interview for De Agostini Scuola, in occasion of the International Day of Mathematics 2022
Interview for "Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery"
(Chris Edwards, Communications of the ACM, March 2022, Vol. 65 No. 3, Pages 12-14)The MPI MiS published this article in occasion of the launch of my Minerva Group
MaddMaths!, the outreach website of the Italian Mathematical Union, published this article about my first prize at the MATHS=E+D+I competition
Interview at the UNESCO Italian Youth Forum 2021
Interview for the Italian TV Channel "TeleSardegna", in occasion of the International Women's Day 2021
Rudi Matematici, the greatest Italian popularizers of mathematics, talked about my outreach videos in one article published by Le Scienze. 2021
I appeared in the researcher spotlight series of the Alan Turing Institute. 2021
Interview for MaddMaths!, the outreach website of the Italian Mathematical Union. 2020
Interview for the Italian TV Channel "TeleSardegna", in occasion of the European Researchers' Night. 2020
Video for ANSA, the leading news agency in Italy, on stereotypes about mathematics and mathematicians. 2020
Published also on the website of the Italian newspaper il Fatto QuotidianoInterview for ANSA, the leading news agency in Italy, in occasion of the Prize "Donna di Scienza Giovani". 2020
Published also on La Nuova Sardegna and SKY tg24Appearance in the Italian news TV program TGR (starting from minute 15:50), in occasion of the Prize "Donna di Scienza Giovani". 2020
Interview for the Italian newspaper L'Unione Sarda in occasion of the Prize "Donna di Scienza Giovani". 2020
Interview for the Italian radio channel Unica Radio in occasion of the Prize "Donna di Scienza Giovani". 2020
The MPI MiS published this article in occasion of the Prize "Donna di Scienza Giovani". 2020
Interview for the Italian newspaper L'Unione Sarda about my PhD. 2020
The MPI MiS published this article in occasion of my PhD defence. 2020
In 2018 I wrote a post on the passing of Stephen Hawking that went viral in Italy. In 2020 it has been published in the book Effetto Quarantena (L. Pani and M. E. Capitanio).
Interview for the book Nonlinear Algebra People 2017-2018 edited by Özde Bayer and Bernd Sturmfels. 2018
Interview (in German) for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Hochschulanzeiger Nr. 153 about my PhD at the MPI MiS. 2018
Interview for European Women in Mathematics written by Francesca Arici, about the non-linear algebra group at the MPI MiS in Leipzig. 2018
Video interview for the Italian TV Channel Videolina. My interview became an episode of the documentary series "Fuori Sede". 2016
Interview for the Italian newspaper L'Unione Sarda about my first position at the regional finals of the International Math Games organized by Università Bocconi. 2004.
OTHER INTERVIEWS: