CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Lorenzo Gontrani
Born: Palermo, Italy, on April 6th, 1974
Professional Experience:
May 2014-present
Research Associate – Chemistry department of Rome Sapienza University. Project:”Preparation and structural, dynamical and thermodynamical characterization of ionic liquids obtained from natural sources. Study of the interaction between natural ionic liquids”, Computational Chemistry/Modeling of the liquid phase with classical and ab initio molecular dynamics
May 2011-Apr 2014
Temporary researcher (3 years) at CNR-Istituto di Struttura della Materia ( Tor Vergata), FIRB project RBFR086BOQ_001, “Structure and dynamics of ionic
Liquids”. Computational chemistry expert – simulation of bulk ionic liquids and solutions
Jul 2010-Apr 2011
Collaborator of EDXD group, Chemistry department of Rome Sapienza University
Computational chemistry expert – development of computer code sto calculated theoretical diffraction patterns from simulations of ionic and molecular liquids
Jul 2009-Jun 2010
Research Associate-Earth Sciences department of Rome Sapienza University. Project: thermal stability, order/disorder processes and phase transitino kineticsof mineral and synthetic equivalents using Powder XRay Diffraction: sulphates and oxides. Computational chemistry expert
Nov 2007-Mar 2009
Postdoctoral fellowship, Università di Cagliari (Department of Chemistry)
Collaboration with CASPUR to implement post-processing algorithms into MD codes (GROMACS, Metadynamics) to predict alkali ion - DNA interactions
Jun 2006-Nov 2007
Resarch Associate, CASPUR Fortran code (X-ray data analysis) development; code parallelization (OpenMP, MPI, hybrid). Quantum chemistry (Gaussian, Molpro) and molecular dynamics calculations (i. e. UV spectra of organic molecules).
Oct 2002-May 2006 Research Fellow, C4T - Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata; Participation in various computational/medicinal chemistry projects with universities and pharmaceutical companies. Extensive use of MD simulation and pharmaceutical chemistry codes (ligand docking, homology modeling, similarity search, database management).
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Educational Background:
18/2/2002 PhD: Dottorato di ricerca in scienza chimiche - XIV ciclo Università di Pisa. Doctoral thesis (PCM - polarizable continuum method - Prof J. Tomasi group)
7/4/1998 Degree in Chemistry: Università di Roma - "La Sapienza" Laurea in Chimica (degree in Chemistry) c/o EDXD diffraction lab - Prof. R. Caminiti
1992 Diploma di Maturita' Scientifica - italian scientific high school degree c/o Liceo scientifico Augusto Righi - Roma.