I studied chemistry at the University of Milan. During my Master’s, I specialized in physical and computational chemistry, graduating in 2020 with a thesis on the nature of π bonds. I then moved to Chalmers University of Technology to pursue my PhD, where I used computational modeling to study the role of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life.
As a postdoc in InterCat, I will continue my research in the broad field of the origin of life, now focusing on the chemistry that occurs on interstellar dust grains. Working closely with experimentalists, I investigate how the fundamental building blocks of life, such as amino acids, form in space and contribute to the origin of life. My computational workflow combines DFT methods with modern machine learning techniques.
