I was born in the beautiful city of Vasto in the Abruzzo region of Italy. After high school I attended the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa where I graduated with a laurea in chemical physics. After a summer fellowship in the group of Prof. Schaefer at the University of Georgia (2003) I moved from Pisa to Athens for graduate school. In the Schaefer group I met Prof. Jürgen Gauss, who later became my postdoctoral advisor and host when I moved to Mainz, Germany for an Alexander von Humboldt Junior Fellowship. Later I moved to New Haven, Connecticut to start a second postdoc with Prof. John Tully. In summer 2013 I joined the Chemistry Department at Emory University as an assistant professor.
Academic Background
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Yale University Postdoctoral Associate in the Tully group, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
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Alexander von Humboldt Junior Fellow in the Gauss group Mainz, Germany |
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Gauss Group, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany |
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Ph.D. in Chemistry Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA |
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M.S. in Physical Chemistry University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy |
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Diploma in Chemistry Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy |