Personal Information

Date of Birth: July 30, 1962 in Feltre (Bl)
Nationality: Italian
Marital Status: Married with three children

Academic Position

Full Professor
Address: CNISM - Department of Physics - University of Padua

Academic Titles

PhD in Physics (with highest distinction) officially obtained on September 23, 1992 in Rome.
Bachelor's degree in Physics "cum laude", obtained on July 10, 1987 at the University of Padua.
Positions and Foreign Stays

November 1991 - present: Researcher and later Associate Professor (2002) and Full Professor (2016) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padua.
March 1992 - February 1994: Post-doctoral position at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Oxford, UK, benefiting from a fellowship from the European Community.
October 1988 - November 1991: PhD student at the University of Padua.
Specialization Areas

Statistical Mechanics
Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
Renormalization Group
Biological Physics
Research Areas

Critical and multicritical properties of linear and branched polymers.
Critical properties of random surfaces, membranes, and vesicles.
Monte Carlo enumerations and extensions. Series analysis. Transfer matrix techniques.
Magnetic models with competitive interactions.
Dynamic properties of interfaces. Growth phenomena.
Optimization problems in disordered environments.
Protein folding. Protein design. Membrane proteins. Heteropolymers.
Protein aggregation and amyloid fibrils.
DNA models.
Models for studying communication among bacteria.
Publications and Invited Talks

120 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
50 invited talks at international conferences.
Referee for various international journals, including: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, B, and E, Journal of Physics A, Journal of Chemical Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Febs Letters, Proteins, Journal of Molecular Biology.
Teaching and Academic Organization Activities

Professor of Quantum Mechanics, Mathematical Methods, Biological Physics, and Theory of Critical Phenomena in the undergraduate programs in Physics, Materials Science, Molecular Biology, and Medicine in the PhD program in Physics.
Coordinator (2008-2011) of the CNISM Unit in Padua.
(2011 - ) Elected member of the Board of Directors of CNISM.
(2013 - 2016) Coordinator of the Scientific Commission of Area 02 - Physical Sciences.
(2015 - 2019) Vice-Director of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
(2019 - present) Director of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

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