Curriculum vitae et studiorum

Place and date of birth: Pelago, Italy, 28 April 1969
Citizenship: Italian
Title: PhD in Chemistry
Current position: Associate Professor in Chemical Physics at the University of Firenze (Italy)
Internet home page: www.chim.unifi.it:/u/chelli

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--- EDUCATION and EMPLOYEMENTS ---

1996. Degree in Chemistry at the University of Firenze, UniFi (Italy). Thesis: Structure and rotational dynamics of the NaCN crystal in the plastic phase. Supervisor: Prof. Salvatore Califano.

2000. PhD in Chemistry at UniFi. Thesis: Numerical experiments: methods and applications. Supervisor: Prof. Salvatore Califano.

2001 - 2009. Postdoctoral position at the Department of Chemistry of UniFi.

2009 - 2015. Researcher in Chemical Physics  at the Department of Chemistry of UniFi.

2015 - Today. Associate Professor in Chemical Physics  at the Department of Chemistry of UniFi.

--- FELLOWSHIPS and RESEARCH STAGES ---

2003. Department of Energy Engineering of UniFi. Project: a physico-mathematical model to study the wax deposition in a boundary layer for a waxy crude oil flowing in a pipe in turbulent regime.

2004. Visiting Researcher at the Dept. of Chemistry of the University of California, Irvine, USA (host Prof. Shaul Mukamel).

2005. International Consortium for Advanced Design of Firenze and Department of Energy Engineering of UniFi. Project: a FORTRAN parallel code for computational fluid dynamics.

2012. Visiting Researcher at the Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques of the University René Descartes, Paris, France (host Dr. Nohad Gresh).

2014: Visiting researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics and Theoretical Chemistry of the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France (host Prof. Jean-Philip Piquemal).

--- EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES ---

Member of the Editorial board of the following scientific journals:
Molecules (MDPI Publishing Group)
Journal of Chemistry (Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
Journal of Theoretical and Computational Science (OMICS Publishing Group)
International Journal of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry (Science Publishing Group).

Reviewer for international scientific journals:

American Journal of Physical Chemistry Journal of Chemical Physics
Biochemistry Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Biophysical Journal Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Carbohydrate Research Journal of Computational Chemistry
Chemical Physics Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modeling
Chemical Physics Letters Journal of Molecular Modeling
Journal of Chemistry Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Journal of Physical Chemistry B Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of Theoretical and Computational Science Letters in Drug Design & Discovery
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering Molecular Simulation
Molecules Nature Communications
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Physics Letters A
PLOS ONE Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics
European Biophysical Journal

--- MEMBERSHIPS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and OTHER ACTIVITIES ---

1999 - Today. Member of the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.

2009 - 2014; 2017 - Today. Member of the College of Teachers of the PhD School of Chemistry of UniFi.

2016 - Today. Member of the Direction Council of the Department of Chemistry of UniFi.

2016 - Today. Member of the Council for Direction Politics and Self-Evaluation of the Department of Chemistry of UniFi.

2019 - Today. Member of the Council of the Schoool of Human Health Sciences of UniFi.

2002. Engagement in discovering historical sources for a book, entitled “The University of Firenze 1924-2004” (published in 2005), on the history of UniFi.

2014. National Scientific Qualification for the role of Associate Professor in the areas “Modeling and Methods in Chemistry” and “Theoretical Physics of Matter”.

Supervisor of undergraduate and graduate students and postdoc.

--- TEACHING (at UniFi) ---

2011 - Today. Ceramic and Glass Materials (First Degree in Chemistry)
2012 - Today. Computational Chemistry (Advanced Degree in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technologies)
2009, 2015 - Today. Theoretical Chemistry (Advanced Degree in Chemistry)
2019 - Today. Molecular Solids: Structure, Dynamics and Optical and NMR Spectroscopies (Advanced degree in Chemistry).

1996 - 1997. Tutor for the course: Chemistry of the environment
2002 - 2003. Tutor for the course: Numerical calculation
2001 - 2007. Tutor for the course: Informatics in chemistry