your ID: 0010 First Name: Elena Last Name: Jimenez-Bailon Affiliation: Universidad Roma Tre Title: X-ray Evidences of Nuclear Activity in Close Pairs of Galaxies Authors: Elena Jimenez-Bailon Topic: 1 Session: oral Abstract: It is believed that AGN activity in the local Universe maybe triggered by galaxy interactions. Taking advantage of high resolution X-ray spectroscopy, we have studied the nuclear activity of a sample of galaxy pairs in order to investigate the hypothesis that interactions could activate the quiescent nuclear supermassive black holes.