Experience:
Ph.D. in molecular science at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2009. From 2010 to 2016 I was a postdoc and research associate at the University of Liege (Belgium) and a Marie Curie fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). In 2016, I moved back to the University of Padova under the program for the recruitment of young researcher “Rita Levi Montalcini” of MIUR. From December 2019, I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry at UNIPD.
Research:
Early research interests focused on stochastic modelling for predicting two-dimensional electron spin resonance response in ordered fluids like liquid crystals. During the PhD, I worked on the problem of the emergence of statistical thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems, and the process of thermalization under unitary Schrödinger dynamics. In the following years, I worked on computational modelling of molecular systems (DFT and classical molecular dynamics) and the design of molecular logic architectures.
My current research conjugates computational modelling of molecular systems with a statistical approach to quantum states and dynamics to understand how quantum dynamics enables functional properties in molecules and nanostructures.
Specific topics of current interest are:
- Modelling of exciton topology and dynamics in molecular aggregates, influence of the environment, spectroscopic response
- Design of nanoscale devices for molecular logic
- Quantum computing and its applications in Chemistry
- DFT modelling of excited states of metallic and semiconductor clusters, interaction with organic ligands and interactions among clusters