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ANTONIO TROVATO

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Position

Professore Associato

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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei" - DFA

Address

VIA F. MARZOLO, 5 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498277159

E-mail

antonio.trovato@unipd.it

PROF. ANTONIO TROVATO - CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Born in Rovigo (Italy), February 2, 1972: married
Degree in Physics “cum laude”, University of Padua, July 1996.
PhD in Condensed Matter Theory “cum laude”, SISSA (Trieste), October 2000.

SINCE 2014: Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Theory, University of Padua.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

2000-2002 PostDoc, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen.
2002-2004 PostDoc, INFM, Padua Unit.
2004-2006 PostDoc, University of Padua.
2006-2008 Researcher (non permanent) CNISM, Padua Unit.
2008-2014 Researcher (permanent), University of Padua.

OTHER STAYS ABROAD AND DISTINCTIONS:

February 2003 Visiting scientist at SISSA (Trieste).
September 2004 and January 2005 Visiting scientist at EPFL (Lausanne).
2017-2023 National Scientific Habilitation for Full Professorship in Condensed Matter Theory and in
Applied Physics.

RESEARCH TOPICS

Protein folding and aggregation.
Statistical mechanics of polymers and of disordered systems.
Optimization algorithms.
Phase transitions and Efimov effect in DNA physics.
Quorum sensing in bacterial communication.

SHORT SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

58 PUBLICATIONS on peer reviewed scientific journals, total citations: 1450, H-index: 18 (ISI)
18 INVITED TALKS; 3 LECTURES in International Summer Schools.
SUPERVISOR of 2 PostDocs, 4 Ph.D., 12 master thesis, 21 bachelor thesis.

CO-ORGANIZER OF CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

"Protein Physics: Structure, Dynamics, and Function, III”, Bressanone (Italy), February 6-8, 2014.
“Living Systems: from interaction patterns to critical behaviour”, San Servolo - Venezia (Italy),
September 16-19, 2015.
“Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Biomolecules, IV”, Bressanone (Italy), February 3-6t, 2016.
“Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Biomolecules, V”, Bressanone (Italy), February 7-10, 2018.

PATENTS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

The commercial license to use the software called PASTA, that I contributed to develop for predicting aggregation propensities of proteins, was sold by Padua University in 2012 to Bohringer Ingelheim and in 2015 to MedImmune.

Notices

Office hours

  • Monday from 14:30 to 16:30
    at Ufficio 109, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "G. Galilei", Via Marzolo 8, Padova
    Non saro' presente se impegnato in missioni fuori sede per collaborazioni scientifiche o partecipazioni a conferenze o se impegnato a seguire incontri e seminari organizzati nell'ambito dell'universita' di Padova. Per questo motivo si prega di contattarmi preventivamente.

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