Education
1994-1999: Undergraduate fellowship from the Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy
Nov 1999: Laurea (MSc) in Chemistry from the University of Pisa, Italy.
Sept 2003: PhD in Chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy.

Professional experience
Jan 2003-Aug 2004: Post-doc research fellowship at the CNR-INFM S3 (now CNR-NANO Institute of Nanoscience), Modena, Italy.
Sept 2004-Jan 2009: Tenure track research scientist at CNR-INFM S3, Modena, Italy
Jan 2009-Dec 2009: Tenured research scientist at CNR-NANO, Modena, Italy
Jan 2010-Jan 2017: Senior research scientist at CNR-NANO, Modena, Italy
Mar 2014-Sept 2014: Visiting Professor in Research USI/ETH Lugano (CH)
Feb 2016: RMIT Visiting Fellow, Melbourne (AUS)
Since Feb 2017: Full Professor, Dept. Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

Research projects
2022-2026: Unit PI of the project EU EIC-Pathfinder iSenseDNA (Italy, Sweden, Spain, France)
2021-2023: Unit PI of the project EU FET-H2020 ProID (Italy, Luxemburg, Germany)
2018-2022: PI of the project MIUR-FARE Plasmo-Chem
2016-2021: PI of the EU ERC Consolidator grant TAME-Plasmons
2014-2017: Unit PI of the project MIUR-PRIN Assessing protein system dynamics and thermodynamics
2010-2014: PI of the project SEED IIT MOPROSURF
2009-2012: Unit PI of the project EU ERANET PLUS "NanoSci-E+" MaECENAS - Nanoscale Optical-to-Mechanical Energy Conversion (Italy, Germany, Israel)
2006-2009: Unit PI of the project EU FP6 NEST Prosurf-Computational Toolbox for Protein-Surface docking (Italy, Germany, Israel)

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