Valentina Tozzini CNR Scientist phone. +39-050-509.433 E-Mail: v.tozzini@sns.it web site: www.nest.sns.it/tozzini

Education
1993: Laurea (Degree) in Physics, Università di Pisa, Italy
1993: Diploma di Licenza in Fisica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
1997: PhD in Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore
1999: Medical Physics Specialization, Università di Pisa

Career
1997 - 1999: Post-Doc felloship (INFM-SNS, Pisa)
1999 - 2000: Visiting researcher  at the University of Nijmegen (NL)
2000 - 2003: research staff at NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
2003 - 2004: Visiting Scholar at the University of California - San Diego
2003 - 2009: scientist at NEST-CNR-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore
2010 - present: scientist at NEST-CNR-Istituto di Nanoscienze, Scuola Normale Superiore

Research Activity
Multi-Scale modeling of biological systems

Modeling Intrinsically Fluorescent Proteins:

• Study of the relationship between structure and vibrational/optical properties in the GFPs
  
• Statistical study of the structure-function correlations in the FP family
• Coarse Grained models for the study of FPs interactions, aggregation and diffusion dynamics

Coarse Grained and Multi-Scale Modeling:

• Multi-scale modeling of HIV-1 replication: study of the viral DNA integration and virion maturation
• Coarse-Grained and multi-scale models of processes involved in DNA replication: Slow dynamics of nucleosomes and plasmids
• Development of Coarse Grained models for the structural transitions in polypeptides and nucleic acids and for protein-protein recognition processes

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