Curriculum Vitae

Current position: Postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Naples in the context of a research agreement with Procter & Gamble. Focus of the research: characterization of the aggregation processes of hydrophobically modified polyacrylates

2010/12/21: Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences-Physical Chemistry at the University of Naples

Sept - Dec 2012: Research fellowship at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry at the University College of London. Focus of the research: crystallization of complexes between G-quadruplexes and ligands, crystallographic studies of duplex-quadruplex interfaces in telomeric sequences 

2011-2014: Postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Naples. Focus of the research: spectroscopic and crystallographic studies of thrombin-aptamer complexes 

2007-2010:  Doctoral research scholarship at the Department of Chemistry “Paolo Corradini” at the University of Naples. Focus of the research: structural studies of G-quadruplexes, protein-quadruplex complexes, pancreatic ribonucleases with antitumor or angiogenic activities

Mar - Oct 2007: Postgraduate research fellowship at the Department of Chemistry “Paolo Corradini” at the University of Naples. Focus of the research: structural characterization of non-covalent dimeric antitumor ribonucleases

2007/3/26, Italian Laurea Degree (MSc equivalent) in Chemical Sciences at the University of Naples (110/110 cum laude)

2004/12/16, Italian Laurea Degree in Chemistry (Eurobachelor Certification) at the University of Naples (110/110 cum laude)

Awards

2011: winner of the Research fellowship of Italian Crystallographic Association to support young crystallographers in their education abroad 

2011: Best PhD thesis prize of the Italian Crystallographic Association

Unit

• Naples

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