Giancarlo Franzese leads the group of Statistical Physics of Complex Matter at UB. PhD in Physics with honors (Naples 1998), Associate Researcher at Roma 3 Un., Boston Un., Naples SUN, La Sapienza Un. Rome, Ramón y Cajal at UB 2003, since 2002 Visiting Professor at Universities of Boston, Cambridge, UC-Dublin, Beijing, Porto Alegre, he is UB Tenured Professor since 2008 and Guarantor for Inst. of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology UB. He won the Young CNR Research Abroad prize 2000, the UB Incentive Program for Research 2012, the Royal Soc. of Chemistry-UK selection as Emerging investigator in soft matter 2012, the Nola prize for academic merits 2016, the ICREA Academia prize 2016. He ranks within the Top Scientists in Spain in Phys., Fluid & Plasmas, Math. Phys., Multidiscipl. Phys., the Top Italian Scientists in the World, and he is in the Top 2% worldwide for production, citations, h-index, g-index, and L-index (exaly.com/author/8620246/giancarlo-franzese). With more than 100 publications, he gave more than 100 Invited Talks, directed 8 PhD theses and 14Master theses, collected EU/ES funds for over 2,5 millions of euros, organized 23 conferences and chaired 14.
Research interest
His group develops a multi-scale approach to simulate hydrated nanobio interfaces under realistic conditions (e.g., nanoparticles injected in blood protein solutions). They combine different numerical and theoretical techniques to simulate complex biological processes, e.g., protein folding and protein design or the proteins' self-assembly before the uptake through the cell membrane. They verify their predictions in collaboration with several experimental groups with the ambitious goal of contributing to find answers for fundamental questions (Why water is so important for life? Which properties make water unique for biological processes?) and applications (Can we design better drugs? How can we implement nanotheranostic? Can we limit protein-aggregations causing degenerative deseases?).
Key words
Biological Physics. Biological Water. Bio-Nano Interactions. Protein Folding. Protein Design. Self-Assembly. Complex Liquids. Soft Matter.
ResearcherID: A-9655-2009
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-3006-2766
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BOOK: Aspects of Physical Biology www.springer.com/978-3-540-78764-8
ISSUE: Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Confined Systems mdpi.com/si/7262
WEB: https://spcmub.wordpress.com/ (with PDF of publications)
