I use computational models for the design and the study of (macro)molecular organisation (including colloidal self-assembly) and (macro)molecular recognition. Since 2013 I have been coordinating a multidisciplinary research activity for the development of novel binders for medical, pharmaceutical, and biological applications.

By training I am a physical chemist (Laurea in Chimica,  2006, University of Trieste, Italy) and I got my PhD from Warwick University (UK) in 2010 with a thesis in “Computational Techniques for the Study of Molecular Self-Organisation”. I then moved back to Italy: I worked in CNR-IOM and SISSA (Trieste), and at the University of Udine. There I met Giacinto Scoles, a physical chemist like me.  He introduced me to nanomedicine and personalised medicine: his vision and approach sparked my interest. I had the opportunity to meet colleagues from very diverse backgrounds,  and I then spent one year at the University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) as a Talents3 fellow to learn more details about antibody fragments, especially from a biological perspective, and then back in Italy to SISSA and the  University of Trieste. I am now at the Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa).

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