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Raffaello Potestio
Coordinator
Doctoral programme – Physics
Associate professor
Department of Physics
Associate professor:
Doctoral programme – Physics
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Education |
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Academic career and teaching activities |
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Research interests |
My main research interest since during the PhD has been the development and application of coarse-grained models and coarse-graining strategies for soft matter, in particular biologically relevant systems. The two-sided, complementary goals of this approach are to understand the most fundamental and/or universal features of a system and, at the same time, to improve the computational efficiency of a simulation. I also work on the study of topologically self-entangled biopolymers, namely knotted proteins and DNA. To this end, I make use of standard and ad hoc coarse-grained models developed specifically for the systems under examination. |
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