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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
2016 Double (joint) Ph.D. 1) Ph.D. in Physics and Chemistry of Materials with top marks. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne, Paris (France). 2) Ph.D. in Advanced Technologies for Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Electromagnetic Modelling with top marks. University of Messina (Italy).
2012 Master’s degree in Physics (110/110 cum laude). University of Messina (Italy).
2012 Research stay at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne, Paris (France).
2010 Summer School on “Atomistic simulation techniques” organised by and held at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste (Italy).
2009 Bachelor’s degree in Physics (110/110 cum laude). University of Messina (Italy).

CURRENT POSITION
2019 – ongoing Researcher at the Institute for Chemical-Physical Processes of the National Research Council (IPCF-CNR), Messina (Italy).

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2018 – 2019 Researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IBP-CAS), Brno (Czechia).
2016 – 2018 Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IBP-CAS), Brno (Czechia).

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2018 Rutherford International Fellowship Programme (RIFP) conferred by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Harwell Oxford, UK) for the project “In silico prebiotic chemistry”.
2018 Seal of Excellence conferred by the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium) for the high score (>85%) obtained by the project “COMETS” presented to the 2017 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF).
2016 Doctor Europaeus mention for the PhD thesis conferred by the University of Messina (Italy).
2013 Bando Vinci 2013 award for the PhD project “Ab initio simulations of aqueous systems under an electric field” conferred by the Università Italo-Francese/Université Franco-Italienne (UIF/UFI) (Turin/Grenoble, Italy/France).

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2020 Tutor for the Master degree of 1 graduate student at the University of Messina (Italy).
2018 – 2019 Assistant Tutor of 1 PhD student at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IBP-CAS), Brno (Czechia).
2016 – 2017 Assistant Tutor for the Master degree of 1 graduate student at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IBP-CAS), Brno (Czechia).
2015 Assistant Tutor of 1 graduate student during his Erasmus project for the Master degree at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne, Paris (France).

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2015 Organisation of the Symposium “Water” as deputy-dean of the European Physical Society (EPS) Young Minds section of Messina (Italy) and the Appunti di Fisica group, Messina (Italy). Chair of the first session. About a hundred of participants.

REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2021 – Co-editor of a book for the Royal Society of Chemistry (it will be released in June).

2020 – Topic Editor of the journal “Applied Sciences”, MDPI.
2015 – ongoing Reviewer for the American Physical Society (PRL, PRB); the American Chemical Society (JACS, JPCL, JPC/A/B/C); the American Institute of Physics (JCP); the Royal Society of Chemistry (Chem. Soc. Rev., PCCP); Springer.

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2013 – 2016 EPS Young Minds Deputy-dean of the Messina Section.

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
2020 – ongoing Group of Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison, Pittsburgh University (Pennsylvania, USA).
2016 – ongoing Group of Prof. Jiri Sponer, Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Brno, Czechia).
2016 – ongoing Group of Dr. Martin Ferus, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czechia).
2013 – ongoing Group of Prof. A. Marco Saitta, Sorbonne (Paris, France).