I was deeply tempted to call this webpage “Selected Ambient Works”, as an homage to Aphex Twin’s masterpiece album. Unfortunately, that would have confused my readers, and as a professional communicator I care about being clear.
Here you can find some of the articles I have published, or at least some of the ones that brought me the most joy. I’ll do my best to keep this page updated.
Feature articles for Swissinfo
Swissinfo is a public platform dedicated to people outside Switzerland who want to stay up to date on our country. It is part of the SSR SRG family, just like RSI, RTS, SRF, RTR, and SwissTXT. For Swissinfo, I sometimes write long feature articles.
In late spring 2025, I joined Swissinfo’s AI beat as a freelancer. I finally got the chance to dive deep into one single topic, and AI is really trendy at the moment, as you have all probably noticed. In particular, I chose the perspective of AI and healthcare. My topics range from the help AI can bring where resources are scarce, to AI as a tool for helping people with physical disabilities, or for pushing excellence even further. These articles are in English.
09 July 2025 Can AI bridge the access to healthcare gap in sub-Saharan Africa?
02 October 2025 Is AI for sign language promising or futile?
30 October 2025 Major new initiative aims to bring AI to cancer treatment in Switzerland
My first publication for this outlet was an interview with Carlo Rubbia for his 90th birthday, in the same year as CERN’s 70th anniversary and the 40th anniversary of his Nobel Prize. To my great surprise, I was one of the few journalists who covered the occasion, and the only one who managed to interview him for it.
02 aprile 2024 Carlo Rubbia e il CERN: due vite intrecciate
For Radiotelevisione Svizzera, hosted on live radio
I regularly write for Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI), and sometimes I get to present my stories live on the radio, typically on Rete Uno, and every three weeks on Instagram too. It is a nice way to make the most of journalistic research: the same content is presented to the public through two or three different channels, which add value to each other. Pretty neat, isn’t it?
6 March 2026 Una molecola unica ricostruita con un computer quantistico
21 November 2025 L’enigma della materia oscura: da Ginevra nuove rivelazioni
12 September 2025 A Basilea un passo in avanti nella ricerca sulla memoria delle cellule
27 February 2025 Il prezzo ambientale dello sci (this is now a bit old, but I really care about the topic so I want to keep it here. This was a small investigation of mine)
I will also include here some articles for RSI that I enjoyed writing, without any radio contribution. This is what I typically do every week.
14 March 2026 In che senso la matematica è democratica?
03 September 2025 Google zero, ecco come navigheremo nell’internet del futuro
9 May 2025 La fisica che regola i mercati azionari (same as before, it is slightly outdated but I love the topic)
Long-standing collaboration with Ticino Scienza
Ticino Scienza is a small platform by the IBSA Foundation. It focuses solely on science news from Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland. Pedantic note: Italian is also spoken in Grigioni, but it is not dominant there. The region is so small that sometimes we write about talks at universities, which typically do not have press representatives in the audience. The editorial line focuses mostly on people and institutions, rather than on scientific mechanisms. Yet another perspective on academia.
2 luglio 2025 Quei meccanismi antichi che legano la quantità di cibo alla longevità
16 settembre 2024 Il prestigioso Premio Balzan passa anche dal Ticino (dove è di casa dal 1956)
23 agosto 2024 Locarno chiama (anche) la Ricerca. E spunta la proposta di usare i video al posto degli articoli accademici
Other articles, a bit older
Toward the end of my PhD, I had the chance to write a “Minifocus” article about Ticino for the prestigious magazine Horizon by Swiss National Science Foundation. You’ll never believe it, but it was thanks to this article in English that I started my collaboration with Ticino Scienza and, later, RSI.
23 february 2023 Of supercomputers and chestnut forests: a trip to Ticino
I want to share with you, dear reader who has scrolled all this way down, one of my first articles. At the very beginning of my career, between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, I wrote for the local newspaper Il Corriere del Ticino. My very first article is not available online, unfortunately. We still used printed paper back then! But I want to share here another important little piece of my life: the very first time I went into the field for an interview. I was, and still am, sincerely passionate about metrology, the science of measurement, and in order to write about the silent “measurement unit revolution”, I went to METAS to interview its research director. It was an incredibly exciting experience.
15 June 2019 La rivoluzione invisibile delle unità di misura