Presentations

Since October 2022, I have been invited as a guest speaker to present my work on astrophysical constraints on ALPs and on SMBH spins at national and international level on 10 occasions. These presentations were and will be delivered to current and future telescope mission collaborations, as well as international Astronomy Departments (20-60 minutes each):

11. TBC - Invited Talk for the AGN Seminar at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, MD, US.

10. March 2024 -  “Using high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy to unveil fundamental physics” (Virtual).

Invited Seminar to the High Energy Astrophysics Division at the CfA | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, US.

9.  December 2023 - “Using X-ray Astronomy to Probe Fundamental Physics” - Tea Talk for KIPAC and SLAC members at Stanford University, Stanford, US (Virtual).

Talk on the two areas of my thesis research: astrophysical axion searches and supermassive black holes.

8. September 2023 - “Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Future X-ray Observatories”

Solicited talk at the NewAthena UK 2023 Community Science Meeting at the Royal Edinburgh Observatory, Edinburgh, UK.

7. May 2023 - “Constraining Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Current and Future X-ray Observatories” (Virtual).

Invited talk for the Cosmology Subgroup of the STROBE-X Collaboration.

I became a Working Group member of the STROBE-X Probe-Class mission shortly after.

6. March 2023 - ”Using the Hot and Energetic Universe to constrain Beyond the Standard Model Physics: A case for light ALPs & first results with AXIS”.

Invited monthly seminar to Working Group members of the Probe-Class AXIS mission (Virtual).

5. December 2022 - ”Using the Hot and Energetic Universe to constrain Beyond the Standard Model Physics: A case for light ALPs & first results with LEM”.

Invited talk at the IGM Working Group Meeting of the LEM Probe-Class Concept (Virtual).

4. October 2022 - “Using the X-ray Transparency of Galaxy Clusters to constrain Axion-Like Particles”. 

Invited speaker for the Working Group members of the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope based at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, MD, US.

3. October 2022 - “Using the Hot and Energetic Universe to constrain Axion-Like Particles and Black Hole Spin”. 

Invited talk to the Chandra/HETG Working Group at MIT Kavli Institute, Cambridge, MA, US.

2. October 2022 -  “Using the Hot and Energetic Universe to constrain Axion-Like Particles and Black Hole Spin”. 

Invited Special Seminar to the High Energy Astrophysics Division at the CfA | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, US.

1. October 2022 - “Using the Hot and Energetic Universe to constrain Axion-Like Particles and Black Hole Spin”. 

Invited Seminar for The Astronomy Department at The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US.

Contributed Presentations

Since May 2022, I have given 11 contributed presentations at workshops and conferences at national and international level (10-60 minutes each):

11. September 2023 - “A Bayesian study of the SMBH spin distribution from X-ray reflection”.

At the New Results in X-ray Astronomy UK 2023 Conference at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

10. July 2023 - “Constraining ALPs with current and future X-ray missions”.

At the National Astronomy Meeting in Cardiff, UK. Parallel Session on “The future of X-ray astronomy in the UK”.

9. June 2023 - “Constraining ALPs with NewAthena and other future X-ray missions”. 

At the X-ray Universe 2023 Triennial Conference in Athens, Greece. Parallel Session on “Current and future missions”.

8. June 2023 - “A Bayesian study of the distribution of SMBH spins from X-ray reflection”.

At the X-ray Universe 2023 Triennial Conference in Athens, Greece. Parallel Session on “AGN and high-z”.

7. April 2023 - “SMBH spin constraints with X-ray reflection methods: An overview”.

Review-type talk at the RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting on “Evidence for SMBH Binaries” in London, UK.

6. November 2022 - “Constraining Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Athena”. 

At the 3rd Scientific Meeting for the Athena X-ray Observatory in Barcelona, Spain.

5. October 2022 - “Using AGNs to probe Physics Beyond the Standard Model“. 

At the 9th Mid-Atlantic Radio-Loud AGN Meeting at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, US.

4. September 2022 - “Using cluster-hosted galaxies to constrain very-light ALPs”.

Seminar-style talk at the “Recent Progress in Axion Theory and Experiment Workshop” at Durham University, Durham, UK.

3. July 2022 - “Tightest bounds on light ALPs from Chandra observations of H1821+643”. 

At the EAS 2022 Annual Meeting in Valencia, Spain. Parallel Session on “The Athena X-ray Observatory”.

2. June 2022 - ”Evidence for a moderate spin of the high-mass SMBH H1821+643”. 

At the “Black Hole Accretion Under the X-ray Microscope” Annual Meeting by XMM-Newton at ESA, Madrid, Spain.

1. May 2022 - ”Evidence for a moderate spin of the high-mass SMBH H1821+643”. 

At the New Results in X-ray astronomy UK 2022 Conference at The University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.