PROFILE

Giacomo Melani

Fixed-Term Researcher

Contacts

Email: giacomo.melani@pi.iccom.cnr.it

Phone: +39 050 621 2454

Site: Pisa

Address: Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa

Biosketch:

Education: Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry magna cum laude, Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, DE (2019); Advisor: Peter Saalfrank. M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry, University of Pisa, IT (2015); Advisor: Maurizio Persico. B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Pisa, IT (2013); Advisor: Maurizio Persico.

Work Experience: Fixed-termi researcher at CNR-ICCOM, working under the Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing – HPC (Centro Nazionale 01 – CN0000013), since July 2023; Postdoctoral Researcher, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, USA (2022-2023); Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2019-2021);  Ph.D. Researcher in Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Germany (2015-2019); IMPRS Ph.D. Research Fellow, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin Germany (2015-2019).

Awards: “Forschungskredit” Fellowship for Postdoc Researchers, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2020); Ph.D. Scholarship by the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) on “Functional Interfaces in Physics and Chemistry”, Fritz-Haber Institute of the MPG, Berlin, Germany, 2015.

Professional Affiliations:  Member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE); Member of the Italian Chemical Society (Physical and Didactics Divisions); Member of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics (SIFS); Member of the American Physical Society (APS); Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Areas of Interest; Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations; First-principles electronic structure methods; Theoretical vibrational spectroscopy; Surfaces, interfaces, and aqueous systems.

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