Alessio Valentini Ph.D.
I am a passionate researcher that lives at the interface between theoretical chemistry and computer science.
My resume
Some of my work!
My background
In my career I have continuously delivered high level software to solve chemistry problems. I am an eager learner and I love to tackle new challenges.
Associate researcher
Project leader and main package developer of Retropaths, a brand new package to discover chemical reactivity using graph theory. Developed several protocols to interface the program to reaction discovery and ab initio calculations.
PostDoc
Project leader and main developer of a package to perform Quantum Dynamics (and relative analysis) for Attosecond time-scale events.
PostDoc
Streamlined the modelling of photoactive proteins to automatize the study of their excited state dynamic behavior (fluorescence and non radiative decay).
PhD in computational chemistry
I got my PhD in Spain, Alcala de Henares. I focused on surface hop semiclassical molecular dynamics applied to natural and synthetic photoactive systems.
Master in Chemistry
I got my master degree in Italy, University of Siena (hosting lab in Bowling Green state university, OH). My research was on the automatic generation of QM/MM models for photoactive proteins.
Bachelor in Chemistry
I got my batchelor degree at the University of Siena (hosting lab University of Wageningen, NL). I studied the prediction of protein folding using bioinformatics tools.
My tools
I leveraged many programming languages and techniques to deliver prime chemistry software. My workhorses are Python and Bash, but I also employed pure functional programming, like Haskell, or extremely optimized routines in CUDA, cython, fortran and C++. I have a passion for data analysis and video effects.