Senior research staff member at CNR-NANO-S3, Modena, Italy (02/2010-), Senior research staff at CNR-INFM-S3, Modena, Italy (04/2009-01/2010), Research staff member at CNR-INFM-S3, Modena, Italy (06/2006-04/2009), Tenure Track Researcher at CNR-INFM-S3, Modena, Italy (01/2003-05/2006), Fixed-term Researcher, INFM Unit of Modena, Italy (12/1999-12/2002), INFM postdoc, Modena, Italy (12/1997-11/1999), DARPA postdoc, Xerox Palo Alto Research Laboratory, CA, USA (01/1996-01/1998). 1992-1995: PhD in Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy. Defense 17/10/1996, 1986-1992: BSc & MSc in Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Summa cum Laude. Defense 10/04/1992. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA (3 weeks 05/2010), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA (3 weeks 09/2008), Hebrew Univ. Of Jerusalem, Israel (1 week 07/2008, 1 week 08/2007), University of São Paulo, Brazil (3 weeks 12/2004, 3 weeks 12/2003, 4 weeks 12/2002, 2 months 04-05/2011).

Theoretical biophysics, structure and electronic properties of DNA and proteins, conformational flexibility and thermodynamics, charge transfer in biological systems, molecule/surface interactions, biomolecular nanostructures, protein-DNA binding, hybrid materials and bio-nano-systems, Density Functional Theory, Molecular Dynamics, Quantum Computation applied to problems in nanosciences and biology.