Curriculum

Curriculum

Current position:
Tenure-track researcher (RTD B), Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra (MIFT), Università degli Studi di Messina, SSD FIS/03 – Physics of the Matter.

Teaching Assignments:
- Holder of the course “Analysis and models of biomedical signals”, 1st year of the Master's Degree course in Physics, specialization in Applied Physics.
- Holder of the course "Theoretical and computational physics of the liquid state of the matter", 1st year of PhD course in Physics.

Education:
- 10/07/2005: Laurea cum laude in Physics, Università degli Studi di Messina. Thesis title: “Studio teorico e simulativo di proprietà strutturali di miscele di liquidi molecolari”.
- 06/03/2009: PhD in Physics, Università degli Studi di Messina. Thesis title: “Improvements of RISM theory in molecular liquids investigations”.

Post-doctoral scientific activities:
- 15/01/2011 - 15/05/2011: Scholarship holder for research activities within the research program "Integral equations for tetrahedral fluids" in the group of prof. Francesco Sciortino at Sapienza, Università di Roma.
- 01-12-2011 - 30-11-2013: Research fellow in the group of prof. Francesco Sciortino, Sapienza, Università di Roma, within the ERC project "Patchy colloidal particles: a powerful arsenal for the fabrication of tomorrow new super-molecules. A theoretical and numerical study of their assembly processes".
- 01-12-2013 - 31-05-2015: Research fellow in the group of prof. Carlo Caccamo, Università degli Studi di Messina, within the PRIN MIUR 2010-2011 project "Build with DNA: a theoretical, simulation and experimental approach".
- 01/06/2015 - 01/12/2015: Holder of research contract within the project "Development of FORTRAN numerical codes suitable for solving integral equations, and computer simulation, of the structure of molecular fluids" in the group of prof. Carlo Caccamo at the Università degli Studi di Messina.
- 01/03/2016 - 01/08/2016: Scholarship holder for research activities within the project "Development of FORTRAN numerical codes for computer simulation of self-aggregation processes of colloidal particles resulting in the formation of hollow structures suitable for the encapsulation of proteins and other macromolecules "in the group of prof. Carlo Caccamo at the Università degli Studi di Messina.
- 02/05/2017 – 30/04/2018: Research fellow in the group of prof. Giuseppe Milano, Università di Salerno, within the PRIN MIUR 2015-2016 project "Molecular Organization in Organic Thin Films via Computer Simulation of their Fabrication Processes".
- 02/05/2018 – 30/04/2019: Research fellow in the group of prof. Giuseppe Milano, Università di Salerno, within the ERC project “Intelligent bulk MAterials for Smart TRanspOrt industries (MASTRO)”.
- 01/02/2020 - 28/12/2020: Scholarship holder for research activities within the project PON "Use of innovative technologies, materials and models in the aeronautical field (AEROMAT)" in the group of prof. Salvatore Magazù, Università di Messina.

Academic Achievements:
- 03/04/2018 – 03/04/2027: National scientific qualification (abilitazione scientifica nazionale) as associate professor, competition sector 02/B2, Theoretical Physics of the Matter.
- 05/04/2018 – 05/04/2027: National scientific qualification (abilitazione scientifica nazionale) as associate professor, competition sector 03/A2, Models and Methodologies for the Chemical Sciences.

Workshops, schools and conferences attended and organized:
- 16/05/2012: Invited speaker to the workshop "Sesta giornata con la Fisica Teorica a Messina", Università di Messina.
Title of the talk: "Processi di aggregazione in sistemi colloidali con interazioni fortemente direzionali".
- 15/09/2013 – 19/09/2013: Member of the local organizing committee of the “3° International Soft Matter
Conference”, Sapienza Università di Roma.
- 22/05/2014: Invited speaker to the workshop "Ottava Giornata con la Fisica Teorica a Messina", Università di
Messina. Title of the talk: "Dimeri colloidali con interazioni antagoniste: come il processo di self-assembly compete
con la separazione di fase".
- 23/07/2015: Invited speaker to the workshop "Soft interactions in bio-nanostructures", Roccalumera (ME). Title of
the talk: "Modelling self-assembly of patchy and Janus colloids into micelles, tubes and bilayers".
- 23/06/2016 – 24/06/2016: Speaker of the workshop "Italian Soft Days, 2° Edition", Politecnico di Milano. Title of the
talk: "Encapsulation of spherical nanoparticles by colloidal dimers".
- 04/09/2016 – 09/09/2016: Speaker of the conference "30° Conference on the European Colloid and Interface
Society", Sapienza Università di Roma. Title of the talk: "Self-assembly of colloidal dimers around spherical
nanoparticles: a simple model for encapsulation".
- 12/12/2016 – 15/12/2016: Speaker of the conference "Materials.it 2016", Catania. Title of the talk: "Self-assembled
bio-nanostructures from Janus dimers".
- 12/12/2016 - 15/12/2016: Speaker of the conference "Materials.it 2016", Catania. Title of the talk: "Density and
structural anomalies in soft-repulsive dimeric fluids".
- 11/01/2017: Invited speaker to the Università di Salerno. Title of the talk: "Self-assembly of patchy colloids: a
theoretical and numerical approach".
- 01/10/2017 – 05/10/2017: Speaker of the conference "Fismat 2017", ICTP-SISSA, Trieste. Title of the talk: "Hybrid
particle-field molecular dynamics study of Silica-Polystyrene nanocomposites".
- 07/06/2018: Invited speaker to the Università di Messina. Title of the talk: “Effective interactions in polymer
nanocomposites”.
- 22/10/2018 – 26/10/2018: Speaker of the conference “Materials.it 2018”, CNR-ISMN, Bologna. Title of the talk:
“Molecular structure and multi-body interactions in polymer nanocomposites”.
- 30/09/2019 – 04/10/2019: Speaker of the conference “Fismat 2019”, Catania. Title of the talk: “Interactions between
nanoparticles in a polymer melt: effects of chain polydispersity and multibody terms”.
- 02/12/2019 – 03/12/2019: Speaker of the conference “International Conference on Atmospheric Monitoring Modeling
and Simulation”, Messina. Title of the talk: “Use of innovative aeronautical technologies, materials and models”.
- 06/07/2021 – 07/07/2021: Invited speaker to the workshop Advances in Functional Materials: Fundamentals,
Technology and Sustainable Energy Production, 6/7 July 2021, Erice (TP). Title of the talk: “Design of functionalized
colloidal particles for targeted self-assembled structures”.

Funded and/or approved research project:
17/11/2017 - 17/08/2018: Principal investigator of a grant of 465000 core hours to the CINECA-ISCRA Super
Computing Application and Innovation Department with a project entitled "MOdeling of NAno COmposites".