In September 1999 I began to work in Prof. Di Nola's  group to prepare my thesis.

I performed Molecular Dynamics Simulations of HIV-1 aspartyl protease with inhibitors.

I took my degree in chemistry cum laude on February 14, 2001, discussing
the thesis: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of  HIV-1 Protease  and the  complex  HIV-1
Protease -  inhibitor ; study of the native form and some mutants".

In years 2001-2004 I  worked in this laboratory as a PhD student in Biophysics. 

  I took my PhD on Genuary 28, 2005 discussing the thesis
"Conformational Fluctuations in Proteins: a Molecular Dynamics based study".
(you can find the pdf version here)

Currently I am collaborating with Dr. R. Benigni and Dr. A. Giuliani
 in the "Istituto Superiore di Sanita'" of Rome.

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