Biosketch:
Education: PhD in Chemistry (2003) University of Cagliari, Italy – Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden, The Netherlands, Ph. D. student with a one year Marie Curie Fellowship Grant (04/07/2022 – 04/07/2023) – Degree in Chemistry (2000) University of Cagliari, Italy
Work Experience: Postdoctoral researcher CNR – Institute for the Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy 01/02/2024 – present
Postdoctoral researcher Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 01/04/2021 – 31/03/2023
Postdoctoral researcher Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy 19/12/2019 – 19/12/2020
Postdoctoral researcher Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy 03/07/2017 – 03/07/2019
Senior research associate University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom 07/01/2014 – 30/06/2017
Research associate University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America 01/09/2010 – 27/07/2013
Postdoctoral researcher University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America 05/01/2009 – 30/08/2010
Postdoctoral researcher Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland 07/01/2007 – 31/12/2008
Research associate University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America 01/02/2006 – 30/11/2006
Postdoctoral researcher University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America 07/05/2004 – 31/01/2006
Awards:
Emory University Lectureship Award, Poster presentation award Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 03/04/2006
Poster’s title: Preliminary Models of Spheroidal HDL particles through Molecular Dynamics
Authors: Andrea Catte, James C. Patterson, Martin K. Jones, Denys Bashtovyy, Feifei Gu, Marcela P. Aliste, Stephen C. Harvey, Ling Li, Gilbert Weinstein and Jere P. Segrest
Career Enhancement Awards Fall 2005-2006 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA 10/10/2005 research funds employed for an internship in Prof. Siewert-Jan Marrink’s Molecular Dynamics Group of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (01/06/2006 – 30/06/2006)
Editorial Activity: guest editor of a Special Issue of the MDPI open access journal Life (title: Advances in G Protein-Coupled Receptors Biophysical and Medicinal Chemistry) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/special_issues/GPCRs_Life
Bibliometric Data: 25 articles; 713 citations; h-index:13 (source Scopus 6/11/2024)
Research interests: MD simulations of biologically relevant macromolecules, Molecular docking of small molecules, Study of protein-lipid and protein-ligand interactions using all atom and coarse grained MD simulations
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