Personal Information

Fields of Interest and Expertise

Study of degradation processes and preservation of Cultural Heritage by means of NMR spectroscopy.

Investigation of metabolic properties of biological matrices by means of NMR spectroscopy.

Investigation of thermodynamic properties of water and aqueous systems (confined water, protein hydration water, water solutions) at different conditions.

Measurements  by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) of food matrices properties.

Curriculum Vitae

2009: Master Degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies at University of Messina (91/110). Thesis title: "The role of water in the activity of biomolecules. Experimental evidence by NMR calorimetry"

2012: Fellow at Istituto Zooprofilattico della Sicilia A. Mirri

2015: Fellow at University of Messina

2015: PHD at University of Messina. Thesis title: "Characterization of food matrices by NMR spectroscopy"

• Energy landscape in protein folding and unfolding. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2016)
• Toxic and essential metals determination in commercial seafood: Paracentrotus lividus by ICP-MS. Natural Product Research (2016)
• Dynamical properties of water-methanol solutions. Journal of Chemical Physics (2016)
• Dynamics of water clusters in solution with LiCl. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (2016)
• Energy landscape in protein folding and unfolding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2016)