Leadership experience (past and ongoing):
- Selected as group facilitator for the “Management Matters” class organized and offered by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Stanford University
- Co-chief & Executive producer of TEDxSSC 2015: led the entire organization of a TEDx event (250 guests, 12 speakers, 30 organizing team members, $20k budget). Event theme: Nevertheless
- Chief organizer of TEDxSSCLive 2014
- Chief organizer of TEDxSSC 2014: led the entire organization of a TEDx event (200 guests, 15 speakers, 18 organizing team members, $20k budget). Event theme: From the exception to the standard
- President of the SSC Alumni Association (Associazione Alumni Scuola Superiore di Catania) from 2011; Member of the Executive Board and Vice-President from 2009 through 2010. As President of the association, I run and lead the organization of all the events and activities; I interact with the academic and students representatives; I organize an yearly fund-raising campaign to support the Association activities; I interact with all the alumni members to involve, motivate, and support their active participation; I am the administrator of the Association website, Facebook and LinkedIn groups, Twitter and YouTube accounts.
- Member of the Stanford iFarm team (Winter 2014)
- Coach at the Stanford Leaders in Communication club (from 2013)
- Selected by the Director of the Stanford Interdisciplinary Life Science Communications as a facilitator for a scientific pitch training workshop for 3rd year Stanford grad students (Spring 2014)
- Mentor for students attending Scuola Superiore di Catania (from 2013)
- Laboratory Safety Coordinator for the Boston University Research Compliance – Environmental Health & Safety (2011 – 2013)
- Representative of Ph. D. Students in the Physics and Astronomy Department Council of the Catania University (2008 – 2009)
- Webmaster of brongersma.stanford.edu from 2013
- Webmaster of www.matis.imm.cnr.it (2006 – 2011)
- Webmaster of www.laboratoriodellapolitica.it (2008 – 2011)
- Blood donor member of Avis
Leadership formation:
- Admitted at Adventures in Design Thinking: A d.school Experience class offered by the Stanford Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education (Summer 2015)
- Admitted at the full time Stanford Ignite program by the Stanford Graduate School of Business (Summer 2015)
- Admitted at “The Improviser’s Mindset” class offered by the Stanford Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education
- Negotiation skills class, offered by the Stanford Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
- iRite/iSpeak course, offered by the Stanford Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
- Stanford future leaders: Mentoring Workshop, offered by the Stanford Office of Postdoctoral Affairs