| Main fields: | Physical organic chemistry Computational chemistry Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy |
| Current interests: | Quantum Topological (QTAIM | QCT) and Multipole
Analysis of Experimental and Theoretical Electron
Densities Experimental and Theoretical Charge Density Approach (ECDA and TCDA) to Molecular Interaction Energies Molecular Design Modelling and Data Analysis |
| Main project: |
Properties of
Atoms and
Molecules in Molecular
Crystals
The Power Tool for Charge Density Analysis |
I am an independent research scientist. Until 2012 I was a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM) of the National Research Council (CNR), since then I have been retired.
My research projects were in the field of computational chemistry and experimental data analysis, focusing on the electronic structure and properties of molecules and molecular assemblies, and using both first-principles treatments and simplified model systems, in order to establish a link to intuitive chemical concepts.
After retirement I got rid of all the political and
bureaucratic crap of public research I had been involved in, and now I can
devote myself to my research projects and scientific interests, which have
actually become my favorite hobby.
Ultimately, I see myself as a youngish old man of
, who still enjoys
solving problems and learning new things.
My wife and sons don't mind that my scientific interests take up most of my
free time as they too are more or less involved in science.
When in 1970 I began my doctoral thesis work in the laboratory of physical chemistry at the University of Milano, mechanical calculators were still in use and EPR spectra were being interpreted manually by means of rulers. I decided it was time for renewal and so I began to write fortran programs to be applied in solving actual application problems in the laboratory. Since then, while doing fundamental research in a number of different fields, I only consider a task done once a useful program has emerged.