Death Valley, Arizona. Photo taken with my camera.
Outreach events
Bennu: An asteroid full of surprises. (SETI Talk series, Aug 2022)
Dr. Saverio Cambioni Tells Us WHY Are There So Many ROCKS on Bennu (Weekly Space Hangout, Dec 2021)
Earth Trojans: The Phantom Asteroids (SpaceDraft Tucson, Oct 2017)
Looking for Asteroid Families using Machine Learning (Thank-you donor video, Nice Sep 2019)
Press activities
NASA DART and the asteroid system Dydimos-Dimorphos
Asteroid Psyche: a mysterious metal-rich world
New maps of asteroid Psyche reveal an ancient world of metal and rock (MIT News, 2022, link)
Astronomers reveal the most detailed map of the asteroid Psyche yet (Ars Technica, 2022, link)
Highest-resolution measurements of asteroid surface temperatures ever obtained from Earth (Science Daily, 2021, link)
Mappa termica dell’asteroide metallico 16 Psyche (Media INAF, 2021, link)
Asteroid Bennu: Why was its surface so rocky?
Most Asteroids Likely Have Rough, Rocky Surfaces Like Bennu, Says New Paper (Forbes, 2021, link)
Why there is hardly any dust on some asteroids (CNRS, 2021, link)
L'intelligenza artificiale risolve l’enigma degli asteroidi Bennu e Ryugu (ANSA Italy, 2021, link)
Highly Porous Rocks Responsible for Bennu's Surprisingly Craggy Surface (UArizona press, 2021, link)
Selected invited talks
Feb 2025. Planet Formation to the Extreme: High-density Worlds. UC Riverside.
Jan 2025. Planet Formation to the Extreme: High-density Worlds. University of Chicago.
Jan 2025. Planet Formation to the Extreme: High-density Worlds. GeoAzur, Universite` Cote` d'Azur, France
Feb 2024. Planet Formation to the Extreme: High-density Worlds. SouthWest Research Institute, Boulder (CO)
July 2023. Understanding planet formation through remote sensing of metal-rich worlds. Hampton University
Feb 2023. New insights into planet formation using thermal remote sensing of metal-rich surfaces. Rowan University
Oct 2022 ‘Collisional formation and evolution of metal-rich planetary bodies’. TAP Colloquium, The University of Arizona, AZ, USA
Sep 2022 ‘Collisional formation and evolution of metal-rich planetary bodies’. Giant Collisions Workshop, DLR, Berlin, Germany
Sep 2022 ‘Formation and geophysics of metal-rich planetary bodies’. Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge, UK
May 2022. ‘Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity’. Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
April 2022. ‘Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity’. Division of Planetary Sciences, Caltech, CA, USA
Feb 2022. ‘Studying the Geology of Asteroids with Machine Learning’. Dept. of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, VA, USA
Nov 2021. ‘Rock Porosity Controls How Asteroids’ Surfaces Look’. IPAC, CA, USA
Oct 2021. ‘Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity’. Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
Oct 2021. ‘What drives planetary diversity?’. Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, MA, USA
Oct 2021. ‘DPS 53 Wednesday Press Conference’. DPS 53 meeting, virtual (presenting Cambioni et al. 2021, Nature)
July 2021. ‘Planetary Science and Machine Learning’. Geodetic Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
June 2021. ‘Small Bodies, Big Data, Big Science: Machine Learning as an Essential Tool’. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
June 2021. ‘Machine Learning: An Essential Tool for Future Discoveries in Small Body Science’. (Early Career talk), 25th NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group
Feb 2021. ‘Planetary Diversity: What is the Role of Giant Impacts?’ Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, MA, USA
Feb 2021. ‘Beyond Perfect Merging: The Application of Machine Learning to Giant Impacts’. Origins seminar series, Tucson, AZ, USA
Nov 2018. ‘Machine Learning applied to Planetary Science’. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Boulder, CO, USA
July 2018. ‘Machine Learning applied to Planetary Science’. Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
Jul 2015, HORUS constellation - The celestial convoy, 3rd UNISEC-Global conference, Tokyo JP