Theme: The Habitat

TEDxUNINA Federico II è un evento tematico organizzato dagli studenti dell'Università di Napoli Federico II, nel centro culturale indipendente L'Asilo situato in Vico Giuseppe Maffei 4 nel centro storico di Napoli.

TEDxUNINA Federico II nasce con l’obiettivo di portare sul palco idee innovative in grado di ispirare un cambiamento. Il tema di quest'anno, “The Habitat”, affronta il concetto di habitat non solo come ambiente fisico, ma anche come spazio sociale e culturale in cui viviamo. Speakers con diversi background, condivideranno le loro idee su come superare il divario tra scienza e società.
Tra i temi trattati:
Inclusività – Tutti apparteniamo allo stesso Habitat e dobbiamo costruire una società più equa.
Responsabilità ambientale e attivismo – Prendersi cura dell’Habitat è una responsabilità collettiva.
Scienza e divulgazione – Colmare il divario tra ricerca scientifica e comunità.
Esplorazione spaziale – Come la ricerca nello spazio può migliorare la vita sulla Terra.

Attraverso 12 talks e uno spettacolo teatrale finale, vogliamo rendere questo evento un momento di connessione e riflessione.

L'Asilo
vico Giuseppe Maffei 4
Naples, Campania, 80138
Italy

Antonello Nolletti

Mechanical Engineer & Volleyball Coach

Antonello Nolletti è un Ingegnere Meccanico napoletano e tecnico di pallavolo classica e paralimpica, per disabilità fisiche ed intellettive relazionali. Ha contribuito, tra i primi allenatori, allo sviluppo del Sitting Volley in Italia. Come tecnico regionale campano, ha vinto il primo campionato maschile per soli atleti paralimpici, reclutato e formato atleti e atlete per le nascenti nazionali italiane. Sogna di dedicarsi alla realizzazione di carrozzine, protesi ed altri ausili sportivi.

Carla Guerriero

Associate Professor of Public Economics

Carla is an Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research explores the intersections between the environment—particularly climate change—health, and economics. Carla’s research specializes in health economics and the interdisciplinary study of environmental health interventions. Her book project focuses on the methodology for conducting cost-benefit analyses of such interventions, integrating insights from economics, public health, and environmental science. Her work explores the economic incentives for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, with a particular emphasis on their impacts on human health. Carla also investigates the dynamics of patient mobility and healthcare quality, with a focus on the Italian healthcare system. Her most recent ongoing research examines the promotion of sustainable and healthy diets for children and the economic implications of fast fashion.

Domenico Salvatore Galluccio

Student of Sociology & Activist

Domenico Salvatore Galluccio is a 22-year-old Sociology student at the University of Naples Federico II. His research interests focus on environmental and territorial sociology, urban commons theory, with particular emphasis on public space reappropriation processes and grassroots environmental justice initiatives. Through a critical lens, he questions established epistemologies in social sciences in the context of the socio-ecological crisis, advocating for situated knowledge production and the politicization of research. He challenges the myth of scientific neutrality, recognizing that knowledge emerges from collective experience through practices of cooperation, conflict and care. He aspires to explore how non-extractive, community-based approaches to commoning knowledge transcend traditional academic boundaries, creating spaces where theory and practice converge to catalyze transformative social change.

Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz

Geodynamicist and Scientific Communicator

Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz is a geodynamicist and scientific communicator from Galicia, in northern Spain (although currently based in Oxford, UK). In her scientific work, she creates computer models of large-scale geological processes like the break-up of continents and formation and evolution of oceans (which are, in turn, used to learn about the direct impact of these events on the evolution of life and climate on Earth). Lucia's interest in scientific communication started during her PhD, when she began experimenting with art and illustration as means to open up scientific discovery to young minds. She has recently published her first children's book, and often runs workshops for scientists where she teaches participants on the power of graphics as a tool to communicate knowledge both inside and outside specialist circles.

Eleonore Cassandra Poli

Analogue Astronaut

La dott.ssa Eleonore Poli è ricercatrice in materiali e ingegneria presso il CSEM in Svizzera, con un dottorato di ricerca in Materiali e Metallurgia presso l'Università di Cambridge, e astronauta analogica. È stata comandante dell'equipaggio di Asclepios I, supporto a terra per FMARS, co-comandante del team GOST di AMADEE-24, ricercatrice per le missioni ICARES-2 e relazioni spaziali per la missione BIODYSSEUS. Ha fondato CHASM, la Community on Human Analogue Space Missions e PARACHASM, un consorzio di ricerca sui parastronauti. È un'atleta dilettante, pianista e fotografa. È membro del consiglio di amministrazione del Museo Spaziale Svizzero e di hepta.aero. Ed è stata addestrata per spedizioni e ambienti estremi.

Eline Goethals

Public Health Activist

Eline Goethals worked as a Strategy Director in the advertising for over eleven years, working with global brands like NIVEA and Carlsberg, and earning awards for effectiveness and creativity. Yet, a nagging question kept growing: What am I doing this for? Wanting to have a more positive impact on the world and feeling trapped in the slot machine of advertising, Eline made the radical decision to quit her career and join the fellowship at the School for Moral Ambition. Now, she uses her influence for good, focussing tobacco control.

Fabio Crameri

Geoscientist & Graphic Designer

Fabio is a geodynamic modeller and graphic designer from Davos, Switzerland. In his scientific work, he creates regional and global numerical models of the Earth’s interior, and focusses on the evolution of plate tectonics and mantle convection in the Earth and in Earth-like planetary bodies. As a free-lance graphic designer, he creates scientific visualisations, illustrations, and artwork, but also logos and webpages via Undertone.design. He offers various numerical modelling and graphic design masterclasses.

Giovanni Covone

Astrophysicist & Science Communicator

Giovanni Covone is an astrophysicist working in the fields of exoplanets and observational cosmology. In particular he is interested in searching Earth-like planets, the study of the astrophysical conditions for life in the Universe and understanding the riddle of dark matter by means of astrophysical observations. He is an active science communicator and an author. He is also interested in the dialogue between physicists and philosophers, in their common effort to understand the external world and our role within as a species.

Mikko Puumala

Postdoc Researcher in Philosophy

Mikko Puumala is a postdoc researcher in University of Turku, Finland. Mikko’s research interests include environmental ethics, space ethics, and philosophy of sustainability. In space ethics, his focus is mainly on ethical and political issues pertaining to space settlements, environmental protection in outer space, and property rights. Mikko is broadly interested in how extreme scenarios, high risks, and complex problems affect our systems of ethics and moral beliefs and what kind of challenges they pose for moral theorizing.

Mykyta Osadchyi

Science Communicator

Mykyta is a science communicator and content creator from Kyiv, Ukraine. He’s been working with the BBC producing science and education reels for Instagram and right now he’s doing his master’s in science communication at University College London. There’s nothing he’d love to do more than to make science and nature documentaries that shed light on real-world issues facing our planet and the people on it. He’s particularly interested in the topics of science misinformation and nature conservation. He’s quite a big fan of oak trees.

Sathesh Raj

Climate & Space Innovation Advocate

Sathesh Raj is passionate about climate action and space innovation. He has participated in movements like Extinction Rebellion, developed climate solutions using space tech, and led the "Peaks of Paradise" project, uncovering Malaysian forest data through visualization. An alum of British Council’s Future News Worldwide, he is part of Time To Rice, an award-winning research team advancing climate science communication. Currently completing his master’s in Astrobiology, Sathesh recently won third prize in China’s MoonStation2050 Global Innovation Competition for his lunar energy system design.

Vito Fiacco

Muncipal Councellor

Vito Fiacco ha 26 anni è uno studente di Giurisprudenza prossimo alla Laurea e Consigliere Comunale di Pomigliano d’Arco. Da quando ha 14 anni è impegnato nell’attivismo politico: è stato rappresentante degli studenti durante gli anni del liceo, membro della consulta provinciale degli studenti di Napoli, membro dell’esecutivo di un sindacato studentesco, candidato a Sindaco della sua città a 24 anni risultando il più giovane candidato sindaco di sempre della sua città e oggi consigliere comunale.