Antonino Famulari

Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano,Italy

Antonino Famulari graduated in Chemistry with merit at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 1994 with the thesis: ”Parallel calculation in Quantum Monte Carlo” (supervisors: Prof. G. Morosi and Dr. P. Cremaschi). In 1998, he completed his PhD in the field of Molecular Modelling at the Università degli Studi di Milano.

Title of the thesis: “Development of ab initio theoretical methods for the study of intermolecular interactions” (Supervisor Prof. M. Raimondi, Coordinator Prof. C. Scolastico). During his PhD, he spent more than 9 months working in foreign countries. In particular, he visited the Department of Chemistry of the University of Liverpool (Prof. D.L. Cooper), the Department of Chemistry of the Iowa State University (Prof. M. S. Gordon) and the Department of Chemistry of the University of Copenhagen (Prof. S. Rettrup).

He earned a post-doctoral research grant by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (1998) and later a Contract of Research in the field of Chemical Science at the Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica ed Elettrochimica, Università degli Studi di Milano (1999-2001).

In 2000, he was appointed to a Permanent Research position by the CNR centre ISTM (Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari) of Milan. In December 2001, he moved as an Assistant Professor to the Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica “Giulio Natta” of the Politecnico di Milano, joining the research group of Prof. Allegra and Prof. Meille. Since 1 November 2014, he has been appointed to an Associate Professor position.