Selected conferences
- Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV: Looking to the Future, conference at the Academia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, March 17-20, 2014
- Co-organizer and LOC Chair for the Surveys 2012 workshop at ESO, Garching, 15-18 Oct 2012
- Invited review: "The Milky Way Galaxy" at the ESO@50 - the first 50 years of ESO workshop, Garching, 3-7 Sep 2012
- Aspen workshop on the Milky Way Bulge and Bar, 21.Aug - 11.Sep 2011
- LOC member for the ESO workshop "Fornax, Virgo, Coma, et al.: Stellar systems in nearby high density environments", Garching, July 2011
- Invited review "Globular Cluster Luminosity Function as distance indicator" at the conference "The Fundamental Cosmic Distance Scale: state of the art and the Gaia perspective", Naples, Italy, 3-6 May 2011
- VVV Science Team Meetings, Vina del Mar, Chile, Dec 2010 & Mar 2012
- SOC Co-Chair for the Super VOSS 09: "Astronomy: A Common Ground for Sharing Humanity's Concerns", 21-26 June 2009, Sassone, Rome, Italy
- SOC member for the conference "The Many Faces of Centaurus A", the first conference
dedicated to Centaurus A/NGC 5128, 28 June - 03 July 2009, Sydney, Australia
- Talk on the stellar halo in NGC 5128.