Teaching staff

Academic Career

• 2002: Laurea in Chimica e Tecnologia Farmaceutiche (Degree in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry) at the Università degli Studi di Parma (110/110 cum laude).
• 2006: Dottore in Ricerca in Chimica Farmaceutica (PhD in Medicinal Chemistry) at the Università degli Studi di Pavia.
• 2005: Ricercatore (Researcher) at the Facoltà di Farmacia (Faculty of Pharmacy), Università degli Studi di Parma.
• 2008-2013: Ricercatore confermato (Researcher) at the Facoltà di Farmacia (Faculty of Pharmacy),
• Università degli Studi di Parma.
• Since Oct. 2014: he is Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Dipartimento di Farmacia before and after at the Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti e del Farmaco Università degli Studi di Parma.

Research experiences outside the Italian University

• Visiting Scientist (2006, 2007) at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (UK), in the computational chemistry group of Prof. Adrian Mulholland (https://mulhollandgroup.wordpress.com).
• Visiting Scientist (2008) and Scientific Consultant (2010) at the Drug Discovery and Development Department of the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, led by Prof. Daniele Piomelli.
• From 2013 to 2016 he has been Visiting Fellow at the "Faculty of Health and Life Sciences" of the Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.

Other Duties:

• Member of the Drug Design and Discovery Group at the Università degli Studi di Parma
• Member of the Board of Teachers for the PhD Program in Drugs, Biomolecules and Health Products at Università degli Studi di Parma
• Member of the Committee for International Mobility for the Department of Food and Drug of the University of Parma
• Member of the Editorial Board of PloS One (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/) 
• Co-Chairman of the First Congress on the Eph/ephrin System, supported by the Italian Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the SCI (Parma, May 2016)
• Member of the organising committee of the 21st European Symposium on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship - EuroQSAR 2016 (Verona, September 2016)
• Member of the scientific committee of the 12th European Workshop in Drug Design (Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, May 2019)

International Awards

• Recipient of the New Investigator Award 2009 at the Gordon Rearch Conference on "Cannabinoid Function in the CNS", delivered at the University of New England, Biddeford, (ME), USA, August 2-7, 2009.
• Runner-up of the EFMC Prize 2010 for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia, conferred on occasion of the XXIst International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC), held in Brussels on September 5-9, 2010.
• Plenary speaker at the Gordon Research Conference in Computational Chemistry (Girona, Spain July 2016).
• Opening lecturer a the conference SBDD2017 - Computational Advances in Drug Discovery  (Lausanne, CH,  September 2017) 

Scientific production

• The research activities of Dr. Lodola have led to more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Lodola possesses the following bibliometric indicators of scientific production (January 2019, Scopus): H-index = 27; total citations = 2237.