Education

Master’s degree in Chemistry (summa cum laude), University of Perugia (Italy), 1993

“Abilitazione” to the chemical profession, University of Perugia (Italy), 1995

PhD in Chemistry, University of Perugia (Italy), 1998
Research interests
  • Astrochemistry and molecular astrophysics
  • reaction dynamics of gaseous systems
  • ion-molecule reactions
  • astrobiology
  • atmospheric chemistry
  • plasma chemistry
  • photodissociation and photoionization of molecules
  • mass spectrometry
Memberships in societies and scientific committees
  • Member of SCI (Italian Chemical Society)
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee of SASP (Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics)
  • Member of the Scientific Board of SIA (Italian Society of Astrobiology) https://astrobiologia.weebly.com/

Chairperson and organizer of XXIV SASP Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics, Andalo (TN) 28th January - 2nd February 2024

Program Committee Member of the Computational Astrochemistry (CompAstro) Workshop
of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications
(ICCSA 2018, http://www.iccsa.org/), July 2 - 5, 2018, Melbourne (Australia)

Representative of the Physics Department in the University of Trento Committee
for Gender Equality and Diversity, Oct. 2015 - to date

Member of the Executive Board of the Physics PhD program at University of Trento (2014-2017)

Delegate of the Physics Department for the stage and placement of students in the
Bachelor and Master degrees in Physics at University of Trento, 2009 - 2023

Chairperson and organizer of MOLEC XVI European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems, Levico 11-15 september 2006

Reviewer for peer-reviewed international journals: Journal of Physical Chemistry, Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys., International
Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Journal of the Americal Chemical Society, Analyst

Reviewer for funding agencies: National Science Foundation (USA) and ASI (Italian Space Agency)