Giovanni Bussi
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)

Biography: During my PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Elisa Molinari at the Università di Modena and Reggio Emilia, my research was focused on the ab initio computation of optical properties in low-dimensional systems. Afterwards, I joined the group of Prof. Michele Parrinello at ETH Zurich and started working in the field of computer simulation of molecular systems, with a special focus on rare events and biological problems. I then spent an additional year in Modena, working on the modeling of nonequilibrium experiments. Since September 2009 I have been working at SISSA as an assistant professor (tenured in 2014, full professor in 2020), where I have started a project on the simulation of nucleic acids. My research has been supported by an ERC starting grant (2012) and by a PRIN grant (2023). My research is mostly focused on (a) the study of RNA dynamics and (b) the development of the open source software PLUMED. In addition, I am interested in the development of fundamental algorithms for molecular dynamics, including thermostats and barostats.

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