Present position (from October 1st, 2014):
Associate Professor (permanent position) at the Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences, University of Parma.
Academic degrees
• Laurea (MSc) in Physics (Biophysical pathway), University of Parma, February 1992.
• Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnologies, University of Bologna, June 1998.
• Researcher (permanent position) in the area of Applied Physics (SSD FIS/07) at the Department of Physics, University of Parma (July 2006 - September 2014).
• National Scientific Qualification to Associate Professor in the areas of both Applied Physics (02/B3) and General Biochemistry and Clinic Biochemistry (05/E1) (2012).
Past positions
1998 - 2000: post-doctoral fellow of the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia
2001 - 2002: research associate of the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia
2002 - 2006: research associate at the Department of Physics, University of Parma
Research activity
Structural and dynamics studies of protein systems by means of computational techniques (Molecular Dynamics, Molecular Docking, protein Modelling).
Participation to funded Projects
- FONCICYT Europe-Messico: “Investigación básica en nanomateriales innovadores avanzados: aplicaciones a la solución de desordenes neurológicos” (2010-2011).
- Network of the European Science Foundation (ESF): “Myelin Autoimmunity Research in Europe - MARIE” (2004-2006)
Several national and international collaborations, in particular with Prof. George Harauz, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Guelph, Canada and with Chiesi Farmaceutici S.l.r.
Other scientific activities
• Teacher at national and international specialization courses.
• Member of the SIBPA - Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura e Applicata
• Access as Visiting Scientist to the High Performance Computing facility SHARCNET (Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network: www.sharcnet.ca), of Compute/Calcul Canada (from 2009).
• Member of the Scientific Commettee of the 85° SIBS Congress of the Italian Society of Experimental Biology (Parma, 2012)
•Member of the Steering Commettee of the European Science Foundation Scientific Network "Myelin Autoimmunity Research in Europe – MARIE" (2004-2006).
•Reviewer for the research programme proposals of the European Science Foundation (from 2006) and of the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society (FISM) (2008 and from 2012).
•Editor of the italian version of the book "Fundamental concepts of Bioinformatics" of D.E. Krane and M.L. Raymer, published by Pearson Education Italia (2007).
Supervisor (directly) of 44 degree theses and 3 Ph.D. thesis in Physics
Other present educational offices at the University of Parma
• Vice-president of the degrees in Physics, Unversity of Parma (from 2014)
• Responsible and webmaster of the web site of the degrees in Physics (from 2014).
• Member of the Comitato di Indirizzo of the degrees in Physics (from 2014).
• Tutor-teacher for the Master Degree in Physics (from 2016)
