Organizational contribution
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Giulia enjoys taking part in workshop/seminar series, and in their organisational aspects. She was an active member of Astronomy on Tap Copenhagen and she is a member of the Scientific Organising Committee of Astrochemistry Discussions. She is involved in projects bridging across science and art such as astromusic, and she was also part of the Niels Bohr Ungdomslaboratoriet (ULAB). The latter designed an experiment to explain the transit exoplanet detection methods to undergraduate students.
Additionally, she is the founder of StarXiv, a weekly journal club of StarPlan, whose aim is to keep researchers updated about the exciting research carried out in the different StarPlan sub-groups, and therefore to promote interactions among them. At Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), she was co-organizer of the Königstuhl Colloquim (KoCo), a joint colloquium of MPIA and the Landessternwarte (LSW) of the ZAH, where scientists from both institutions as well as their guests present new results.
Giulia is passionate about astrobiology, and she was a member of Cosmocrops, the iGEM team of the University of Copenhagen. Team Cosmocrops designed a co-culture system to produce a bioplastic (poly-lactic acid) to 3D-print machinery parts on the International Space Station.
She is part of the movement Astronomers for Planet Earth, and she was a scientific writer for duegradi, a web magazine on climate change.
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A sharper view: celebrating 3 years of JWST observations of planet-forming disks
Giulia recently initiated and organised together with Andrea Banzatti, Valentin Christiaens, Thomas Henning, Melissa McClure, Ilaria Pascucci and María Claudia Ramirez-Tannus a Ringberg workshop on JWST observations of Class II disks.
Below is a list of future perspectives identified by the participants.
Observations:
JWST spectroscopy revealed plenty of new chemical species as well as unexpected features in the spectra. There are significant spectral differences as function of stellar mass.
There is a need for looking for trends in the archival data as well as for extending the sample size (!) to obtain more robust statistical conclusions. Populations studies should be
carried out in nearby regions as well as in regions kpc away (ongoing).
Mid-IR spectra of disks are variable: what causes this variability? The community should identify which disks are the most interesting to monitor.
JWST imaging: finding protoplanets is challenging (e.g., TW Hya, AS 209).
VLT/MATISSE: Mid-IR interferometry is capable of resolving sub-structures in the innermost disk regions.
There is a need for large sample of mid-IR interferometry observations to interpret JWST spectra.
The synergy between JWST and other currently operating (e.g., VLT/MATISSE/CRIRES+, ALMA) and upcoming (ELT/ANDES/METIS, POEMM, PRIMA) facilities is crucial.
Modelling:
There is a need for new laboratory experiments for the analysis of unidentified dust, ice and gas features.More computational resources are required for better interpretation of the data.
Disks are not static: models combining disk evolution + dust dynamics + chemistry are missing.
The community should start thinking about new generation observatories capable of tackling JWST’s limitations. Community-wide efforts / collaborations are needed.