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1987, Secondary School Certificate at the
Scientific Liceum of San Severo (FG), Italy.
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1989-1995, Undergraduate studies in Physics (Mathematical Physics)
at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy.
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October 1995, Degree in Physics at University
"La Sapienza" of Rome, with a thesis entitled:
"Ground State of Fermions in Gravitational Interactions"
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From November 1995 to June 1996, Funded research activity
at the Department of Physics and I.C.R.A (International Center of
Relativistic Astrophysics) of the University of Rome "La Sapienza"
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1996-1999, Ph. D. student at the
School of Mathematics and Physics, "Queen's University of
Belfast", Belfast (Northern Ireland),
with the supervision of
Prof. R.M.Lynden-Bell and Dr.A.Alavi.
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October 1999, Ph. D. Degree in Physics, with a thesis entitled:
"Ab initio Study of Water"
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1999-2003 Postdoc at the
Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in the Theory Group
of Prof.K.Kremer.
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From January 2004 Group Leader at the
Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research.
In particular, from 2005, Coordinator/Leader of the interdisciplinary initiative:"The Multiscale Modeling Project."
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December 2005-February 2006, Visiting Scientist in the group of
Michele Parrinello, Department of Physical Chemistry of the ETH of Zurich
at the ''Universita' Della Svizzera Italiana'', Lugano, Switzerland
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January 2009, Awarded the title of Privat Dozent at the University of Mainz; Title of the thesis: ``Bridging Scales in Condensed Matter via Simulation: Basic Principles and Applications''; Colloquium for the Habilitation procedure with subject:
``Die Stabilitaet der Materie: Eine mathematische Theorie''(Stability of Matter: A mathematical Theory)
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Antrittsvorlesung (Inaugural Lecture at the University of Mainz) April 24th, 2009 subject:
''Die Theorie der Information: Anwendungen in der Physik der Elektronen''
(Information Theory:Application to the Physics of Electrons).
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May 2009, Invited Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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September-October 2009, Visiting Scientist in the group of Giovanni Ciccotti at the University ''La Sapienza'' of Rome.
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January 2011, Awarded the Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Science Foundation)
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July 2011, Heisenberg Fellow at the Institute for Mathematics of the Freie Universität of Berlin
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January 2012-March 2015 Director of the CECAM-DE-MMS node of Berlin
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April 2014, Awarded a one year extension of the Heisenberg Fellowship
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May 2014, Principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Centre " Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems" (SFB 1114) , with the project C01: "Adaptive coupling of scales in molecular dynamics and beyond to fluid dynamics"
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May 2015, Principal Investigator in the European Project E-CAM within the H2020-EINFRA scheme with a project about "Multiscale Molecular Modeling and Quantum-Classical Dynamics"
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July 2015-2018, Guest Professor in " Theoretical and Mathematical Physics in Molecular Simulation" at the Institute for Mathematics of the FU Berlin within the Collaborative Research Centre 1114
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May 2018, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Advanced Theory and Simulations"
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May 2018, Principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Centre " Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems" (SFB 1114) for the second funding period, with the project C01: "Adaptive coupling of scales in molecular dynamics and beyond to fluid dynamics" and the project A07: "Langevin dynamics of particles in membranes"
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July 2018, Permanent Member of the Institute for Mathematics,
in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the FU Berlin
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May 2020, Member of the Editorial Board of "Entropy", section Statistical Physics
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October 2020, Faculty member of the Berlin Mathematics Research Center (Math+) and of the Excellence-Graduate School, Berlin Mathematical School (BMS).
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February 2022, Awarded an Extraordinary Professorship (außerplanmäßige Professur) at the the Institute for Mathematics, in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the FU Berlin.
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May 2022, Principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Centre " Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems" (SFB 1114) for the third funding period, with the project C01: "Adaptive coupling of scales in molecular dynamics and beyond to fluid dynamics"
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May 2022, Speaker of the Integrated Research Training Group in the Collaborative Research Centre " Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems" (SFB 1114) for the third funding period
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May 2022-October 2022, 1st Deputy Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre " Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems" (SFB 1114) for the third funding period
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From October 2022, Co-Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre " Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems" (SFB 1114) for the third funding period
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April 2023, Associate Editor of "Frontiers in Chemistry", section Theoretical and Computational Chemistry