Personal Information

Fields of Interest and Expertise

Lipid Membranes, structure and properties.

Self-Assembling Systems.

Physics of Macromolecules.

Diffusion-Controlled Reactions.

Chiral Systems.

Chemical and Biochemical applications of the Fluctuation Theory.

Molecular Dynamics.

Poisson-Boltzmann equation in complex systems.

Curriculum Vitae

1974: Degree in Chemistry at the University of Catania, Italy (110 cum laude/110).

1976-1986: Research Associate and Assistant Professor, University of Catania, Italy.

1983-1985: Research Associate, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.

1987-2003: Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry. University of Catania, Italy.

1993: Visiting Professor, Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN.

1995: Visiting Professor, Australian National University, Canberra.

2003-present: Full Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Catania, Italy.

• Catania

• A Fokker-Planck equation for a piecewise entropy functional defined in different space domains. An application to solute partitioning at the membrane-water interface. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (2014)
• Out of equilibrium divergence of dissipation in an oscillating bubble coated by surfactants. Langmuir (2014)
• α-Helical structures drive early stages of self-assembly of amyloidogenic amyloid polypeptide aggregate formation in membranes. Scientific Reports (2013)
• Anomalous viscosity effect in the early stages of the ion-assisted adhesion/fusion event between lipid bilayers: A theoretical and computational study. Journal of Chemical Physics (2013)
• Analytical model and multiscale simulations of Aβ peptide aggregation in lipid membranes: Towards a unifying description of conformational transitions, oligomerization and membrane damage. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2013)