Given at schools, universities, international conferences, and to the public
A big part of my work is devoted to deliver the results of my research to the public.
I have travelled to many countries to tell people about the latest results about supermassive black holes, their winds, and the enigmatic quasi-periodic eruptions in the nuclei of galaxies. I have given 30 scientific talks at international conferences, a half of which were under invitation of the scientific organising committees.
I have given many seminars at Universities and Research Institutes all around the world, including Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, and the USA.
I also regularly visit schools in the region where I live (Community of Madrid, Spain) to give talks to students of any age (6-18 and beyond).
I had the privilege of speaking in public about our Universe in several occasions, the most special for me being in an elementary school in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in 2019, in an eco-aldeia in the Brazilian forest in 2018, and most recently in my hometown, Jesi (Italy), at the end of 2024.
Some of my experience as a speaker at international conferences:
- “An observational overview of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions” — invited talk at the “X-ray Quasi-Periodic Eruptions & Repeating Nuclear Transients” conference (ESAC, Spain, June 2025)
- “Winds around supermassive black holes” — invited talk at the “Winds across the Universe” workshop (ESAC, Spain, September 2024)
- “X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions: what’s new” — invited talk at the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) 45th Scientific Assembly, Research in Astrophysics from Space E 1.10 “Extreme accretion events in supermassive black holes” (Busan, South Korea, July 2024)
- “A review of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions in galactic nuclei” — invited talk at the COSPAR 45th Scientific Assembly, Research in Astrophysics from Space E 1.8 “Solving the accretion/ejection puzzle in AGN: synergies and clashes in the central kiloparsec” (Busan, South Korea, July 2024)
- “X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions: the EMRI-TDE connection?” — invited talk at the “Loss Cones in Como” workshop (Como, Italy, February 2024)
- “X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions: a potential electromagnetic counterpart of extreme mass ratio inspirals” — invited talk at the “IV Gravi-Gamma-Nu Workshop – From multiwavelength to multimessenger: The new sight of the universe” conference (L’Aquila, Italy, October 2023)
- “The possible connection between X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions and tidal disruption events” — contributed talk at the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2023 – Special Session 35d : “Supermassive Black Hole Transients and Their Host Galaxies” (Krakow, Poland, July 2023)
Some talks available on YouTube:
- “Unexpected signals in the X-ray sky: quasi-periodic eruptions from galactic nuclei”
Athena X-ray Advances: ASST & ACO Science Webinars, 16/03/2022- “The discovery of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions”
University of Rome Tor Vergata Astrophysics Seminars, 24/22/2021- “Active Galactic Nuclei: orientation versus evolution”
AGN Tourney 2020: Accreting AGNs: triggering, super-Eddington, and more, 13/10/2020- “The discovery of X-ray Quasi-Periodic Eruptions”
Seminar at the Centro de Astrobiología, 17/07/2020
Margherita Giustini 