About me

Education and Qualifications

1986:
 Diploma di maturità scientifica (High school degree)
1992:
 Awarded the degree of "Dottore in Chimica" cum laude at the University of Rome, discussing a thesis on the Structure determination of Aquatrisimidazolecopper (II) sulfate using Molecular Dynamics and XANES spectroscopy under the supervision of Prof. A. Di Nola and Prof. M. Barteri.
1993-1996:
 Doctoral research in chemical sciences under the supervision of Prof. A. Di Nola. During the doctoral (period 1995-1996) I was research fellow at the University of Groningen in the group of Prof. H.J.C. Berendsen.
1997:
 Awarded with the degree of "Dottore di ricerca in Chimica" (equivalent to PhD) at the University of Rome, with a thesis on Study of complex molecular systems using molecular dynamics advanced techniques [ 28 ].

Work Experiences

1993:
Received a grant from CASPUR (Consorzio per le Applicazioni di Supercalcolo per Università e Ricerca) for the developing of Molecular Dynamics program on parallel computer "Quadrics" (Alenia-Italy).
1996-1999:
TMR European Community grant postodoc in the Prof. H.J.C. Berendsen MD group at University of Groningen on the projects Structure and Dynamics of Intermediate States in Protein Folding and PROMOD.
1999-2000:
Postodoc on renewed Protein Folding TMR EC grant in the group of Prof. A.E. Mark at University of Groningen.
2001-2003:
Research associate position in the group of Prof. F. Mazza Dipartimento di Chimica, Ingegneria Chimica e Materiali at the University of L'Aquila (Italy).
2003-2005:
 Research Associate position in the group of Prof. Martin Zacharias at School of Enginnering and Science of Jacobs University (former International University of Bremen) (Germany).
2005-
2009:
 Lecturer in Chemistry, Computational Chemistry and Biotecnologies at Jacobs University (former International University of Bremen) (Germany).
July 2009- Assistant Professor in Biochemical Engineering, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.