Leonardo Guidoni PhD, MD

Leonardo Guidoni graduated with honors in Physics in 1996 with a thesis on strongly correlated electron models. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2000 at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Carloni and Vincent Torre, carrying out a thesis on the chemical-physical mechanisms that regulate the molecular behavior of membrane ion channels. From 2000 to 2002 he worked as a postdoctoral student in the group of Prof. Ursula Röthlisberger in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). In 2002 he followed the same group in the Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry Laboratory of the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (EPFL), where he worked until the end of 2004. During these years he learns and develops computational techniques from first and mixed quantum / classical principles to apply them to the study of photoreceptors and to the design of biomimetic compounds. In December 2004 he won a four-year contract "Rientro Cervelli" and became an Adjunct Professor in Biochemistry and Computational Biophysics at the Physics Department of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He has invited a professor in 2005 at the EPFL in Lausanne and in 2006 at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. In February 2007 he obtained the qualification as a university professor in Chemistry in France. In December 2008 he became Associate Professor in Chemical Foundations of Technologies at the University of L'Aquila. His scientific activity covers a wide area of ​​theoretical and computational chemistry and is aimed at the quantitative study of systems of chemical and biochemical interest. Of particular importance are the development and innovative use of first principle methods (such as Car-Parrinello dynamics and Quantum Monte Carlo) together with classical molecular dynamics techniques. These quantum-classical methodologies find promising applications in the study of chemical, dynamic and spectroscopic properties of inorganic molecules in solution and of biological macromolecules. He has participated as a speaker at about thirty international conferences. His scientific production is of excellent quality and is published in international journals of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, including numerous high-impact factor journals such as Angewandte Chemie, JACS, and Physical Review Letters, Proteins, and Biochemistry. According to the ISI database, his 26 works have collected more than 450 citations to date. Leonardo Guidoni has taught degree courses in Chemistry (at the EPFL in Lausanne and at the University of L'Aquila) and in Physics (at "La Sapienza" in Rome) at different levels (I and II level degree, Doctorate). He was co-supervisor of doctoral theses at the EPFL and supervisor of numerous Bachelor's and Specialist degree theses at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. From 2006 to 2007 one of his research projects was funded by the CASPER computer center in Rome with a post-doctoral position that carried out a scientific activity under his direction. In April 2007 he was the principal organizer of an International Workshop on the development of computational spectroscopy in chemistry and biochemistry. He is the spokesperson for the biological simulations section of the European Psi-K network. From 2007 to 2008 he was a member of the steering committee of the European Community program “Erasmus Mundus ATOSIM” in collaboration with the Lyon Normal School and the University of Amsterdam. Since January 2009 he has been a member of the teaching staff of the doctorate "Physical-mathematical engineering and modeling" at the University of L'Aquila. From 2007 to 2008 he was a member of the steering committee of the European Community program “Erasmus Mundus ATOSIM” in collaboration with the Lyon Normal School and the University of Amsterdam. Since January 2009 he has been a member of the teaching staff of the doctorate "Physical-mathematical engineering and modeling" at the University of L'Aquila. From 2007 to 2008 he was a member of the steering committee of the European Community program “Erasmus Mundus ATOSIM” in collaboration with the Lyon Normal School and the University of Amsterdam. Since January 2009 he has been a member of the teaching staff of the doctorate "Physical-mathematical engineering and modeling" at the University of L'Aquila.