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Valentina Tozzini

  • CNR Researcher
  • valentina.tozzini@nano.cnr.it
  • Pisa
  • +39-050-509433
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Education
1993: Laurea (Master 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: Scientist at NEST-INFM, SNS, Pisa
2003 - 2004: Visiting Scholar at the University of California - San Diego
2003 - 2009: Research Scientist at NEST-CNR-INFM, SNS, Pisa
2010 - 2021: Senior Research Scientist at Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, NEST-SNS, Pisa
2021 - present: Research Director at Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, NEST-SNS, Pisa

 

Memberships, assignments, habilitations 

2025 - : Editorial board of “Analysis”, magazine of culture and politics of science
2024 - : INFN research associate, Section of Pisa
2024 - : Speciality Chief Editor of the section “Biological modeling and simulations” of Front Mol Biosci
2023 - : Member of the Scientific board of DSFTM Department of CNR
2021 - : Member of the Interdisciplinary Group on Science, Technology and Society of CNR (Area-Pisa)
2020 - : Member of the Institute Board of Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR
2018 - : Member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA)
2017 - : National Habilitation as Full Professor of Applied Physics and Condensed Matter Physics (Theory)
2010 - : Panel member for grants of national research programmes of EU countries, Remote reviewer for ERC grants
2009 - : Adjunct prof of Biophysics, Numerical methods and Structure of matter dept of Physics Univ of Pisa
2007 - : Panel member for assignment of HPC resources within PRACE and ISCRA programmes
2000 - : PhD and Master degree committees

Research Interests

Development and applications of multi-scale methods for materials and bio-systems, atomistic/coarse-grained potentials and empirical kinetic/stochastic models combining standard methods with machine learning. Recent applications

 

 

See also https://green.nano.cnr.it and https://bio.nano.cnr.it/

 

Full list of publications: Google Scholar  

Selected Recent Projects

MiniBeam Radiotherapy (MIRO), funded by INFN https://www.ct.infn.it/it/on-going-projects/miro.html
NEXT Generation EU, Tuscany Health Ecosystem: Advanced radiotherapies and diagnostics in oncology
NEXT Generation EU, within ICSC: Innovation Grant (Leading Partner: ENI): Accelerating the pace of the energy transition through simulation-guided discovery of advanced green materials

Selected Publications

A. Casale, A. Esposito, G. Menichetti, and V. Tozzini. β-decay spectrum of Tritiated graphene: combining nuclear quantum mechanics with Density Functional Theory. Phys Rev C (2026).

 

M. Bini, G. Brancolini, and V. Tozzini.  Aggregation of Intrinsically Fluorescent Proteins: combining coarse grained molecular dynamics with AlphaFold predictions. ACSOmega  (2025).

 

F. Di Martino, E. Scifoni, V. Patera, P. Montay-Gruel, F. Romano, A. Darafsheh, and V. Tozzini. Editorial: Multidisciplinary approaches to the FLASH radiotherapy. Front Phys (2024).

 

L. Bellucci, F. Delfino, and V. Tozzini. In Silico design, building and gas adsorption of nano-porous graphene scaffolds. Nanotech (2021) .

 

G. Brancolini and V. Tozzini. Multiscale modeling of proteins interaction with functionalized nanoparticles. Curr Opin Coll Int Sci (2019).