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.

My Curriculum Vitae

Academic Background

	Yale University Postdoctoral Associate in the Tully group, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
	Alexander von Humboldt Junior Fellow in the Gauss group Mainz, Germany
	Gauss Group, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
	Ph.D. in Chemistry Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
	M.S. in Physical Chemistry University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
	Diploma in Chemistry Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy