Glamorous Italian nuclear physicist hits back at sexist trolls after being bombarded with abuse for posting video of herself in low-cut dress

Daily Mail​

6 days ago

A leading Italian physicist has clapped back at online trolls who made sexist remarks after she shared a video of herself wearing a low-cut dress.
Nuclear scientist and quantum mechanics expert Gabriella Greison, 51, posted a clip to her Instagram account as she prepared to travel for an academic event in Sicily.
The scientist, who is based in Milan, was shown wearing a pale green dress with a low-cut neckline as she told her followers that she was going to be a guest of honour at a graduation ceremony in the University of Messina.
But Greison's video, which has racked up thousands of views, drew sexist reactions as followers commented on her revealing outfit.
'Indecent clothing, vulgar, undignified,' one critic wrote.
'The inexorable advance of age pushes some women to shoot their last fireworks,' another said.
A third commented: 'You're just an old maid who needs to show off, not having anything to say.'
But Greison responded to her critics in an Instagram post, writing that 'there is no dress code for dignity'.
'If you're looking for decency in an inch of fabric, rather than in the content of words, I recommend an experiment: try using your brain and positioning yourself in the current year, with all the struggles that have been fought by those before me', she said.
'We're in 2025...the world is burning, the glaciers are melting, artificial intelligence reads our minds...and you're upset that a woman talks about science with a beautiful cleavage? Are you serious?', she added.
Greison went on to tell her critics: 'It's not the dress that bothered you. It's the fact that a woman can talk about quantum physics without remembering a man, and therefore without asking for permission.
'Let him get on stage, explain wave function and Schrödinger, and have boobs in the meantime. Oops.'
She later appeared at the graduation ceremony in a strappy red dress which she jokingly said was 'even worse' than the first one.
Despite the trolls, several Instagram users have defended the glamorous scientist and have expressed admiration for her response.
One user commended the 'exceptional professor' and praised her for being a 'great example for young girls who still live [in] this bitter conflict between beauty and intelligence'.
Another said: 'If anyone is outraged by this video, relax the Victorian era is over for a while, stay calm and live in today's reality.'
'Maximum respect, huge admiration and full support... Against the hardcore haters', a third wrote.
Greison graduated from the University of Milan with a degree in nuclear physics. She previously worked at the research centre at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
She is currently the director of the first Festival of Physics in Italy and was included in Forbes Magazine's '100 successful women of 2024' list.