Interessi di ricerca

My research is focused on quantum-chemical investigations of chemical reactions, molecular interactions and properties of chemical species involved in fields of astrochemistry, planetary chemistry and prebiotic chemistry. These investigations include a wide range of molecular species from small inorganic molecules to biomacromolecules like nucleic acids. The applied methods involve dinamica molecolare ab initio quantum-chemical methods, DFT methods and molecular mechanical force-fields. Currently, I am a research fellow in the “Exo-planetary Cloudy Atmospheres and Stellar High energy (Exo-CASH)” PRIN project and studying sulfur-containing species spectroscopically detected in atmospheres of exoplanets. My role is to investigate possible chemical pathways leading to observable amounts of these species in exoplanets’ atmospheres at specific physical conditions.

Parole chiave: Quantum chemistry, Exoplanets, Astrochemistry, Chemical reactions, Prebiotic chemistry, Molecular interactions