February 2024
Davide Barbiero won the prestigious Grazioli Master degree prize issued by the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere thank to his thesis work titled "Anharmonicity and quantum effects in the vibrational spectroscopy and kinetics of challenging molecular systems" under the supervision of Riccardo.
February 2024
Congratulations to Michele Gandolfi for successfully definding his Ph.D. theses. Cheers!
July 2023
Congratulations to Hampus Karlsson for winning the prestigious Marie Curie European Individual Fellowship! The title of the project is "Semiclassical Spin Dynamics in Condensed Phase" (SCSD). Hampus will spend two years in our group.
October 2023
Congratulations to Luca Corneo that defended successfully his master theses. Cheers!
September 2023
Our friend and collaborator Eli Pollak from Weizmann Institue is visiting our group. Thank you Eli!
September 2023
Cecilia Lanzi is presenting a poster at the Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry at ETH Zurich.
September 2023
Davide Moscato is presenting a poster at the Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry at ETH Zurich.
July 2023
Congratulations to Davide Barbiero that defended successfully his master theses. Cheers!
July 2023
Congratulations to Chiara Aieta for winning the prestigious Marie Curie Global Individual Fellowship! The title of the project is "Post Born-Oppenheimer Approximation for Semiclassical Spectroscopy Investigation of Proton-Coupled
Electron Transfer Processes" (NEOSC). Chiara will spend two years in Princeton at Sharon-Hammes Schiffer's group and one year back in Milan.
September 2022
Congratulations to Cecilia Lanzi that defended successfully her master theses. Cheers!
January 2022
Congratulations to Alessandro Rognoni that defended successfully his Ph.D. theses. Cheers!
October 2021
Congratulations to Davide Moscato that defended successfully his master theses. Cheers!
January 2021
Cecilia won the prestigious bachelor degree prize Italo Martina 2021, issued by the Rotary Club Milano Duomo. Cecilia has an excellent GPA and she did a thesis about adiabatic switching molecular dynamics under the supervision of Riccardo.
February 2021
La Statale News, under the section "Research and Innovation" published an article about our work recalling a twitter poll about the smallest water droplet.
January 2021
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January 2021
The review by Emma Lockyer of our latest paper “How many water molecules are needed to solvate one?”
has become the most read article in the research section of Chemistry World.
January 2021
Giacomo won the prestigious Grazioli Master degree prize issued by the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere thank to his thesis work about the calculation of organic reaction thermal rate constants. Giacomo implemented a novel algorithm for anharmonic constant calculations in Multiwell.
January 2021
The editors at Nature Communications have put together an Editors' Highlights webpage of recent research called “Inorganic and physical chemistry” and they chose to feature our article, entitled “Anharmonic quantum nuclear densities from full dimensional vibrational eigenfunctions with application to protonated glycine”
January 2021
Our latest paper “How many water molecules are needed to solvate one?”
has made news! Emma Lockyer wrote an article about our paper and our group.
January 2021
Our latest paper
“How many water molecules are needed to solvate one?”
has been selected for the "2021 Chemical Science HOT Articles" by Chemical Science.
Congratulations to Alessandro, Riccardo and Michele for these achievements!
November 2020
Welcome to Michele, Giacomo e Giacomino, new PhD students of the group.
Giacomo's webpage
Giacomino's webpage
August 2020
La Statale News, under the section "Research and Innovation" published an article about our work.
August 2020
Our latest outreaching activity
“Quantum-GlyH+”
has been published on Nature Research Community website.
A step forward into quantum nuclear importance awareness!
August 2020
Our latest paper
“Anharmonic quantum nuclear densities fromfull dimensional vibrational eigenfunctionswith application to protonated glycine”
has been published on Nature Communications.
Congratulations to Chiara, Gianluca, Marco and Michele for these achievements!
February 23rd, 2019
Congratulations to Fabio and Giovanni for their final PhD discussion and commencement!
Januray 22nd, 2019
Prof. Dimitrii V. Shalashilin from University of Leeds (UK),
gave a seminar titled “Trajectory guided basis sets of Coherent States for quantum dynamics”
hr. 15.30, Aula G15, Settore Didattico Golgi
December 2018
Congratulations to Giacomo Buccella, Erika Fallacara, and Lorenzo Parma that defended successfully their master theses. Cheers!
November 2018
Our latest paper
“Protonated glycine supramolecular systems: the need for quantum dynamics”
has been selected as "ChemSci Pick of the Week" by Chemical Science. The article has been featured also on the front cover of the Journal.
Congratulations to Fabio, Giovanni, Riccardo and Michele for these achievements!
Open Access full paper
November 2018
Welcome to Alessandro, who re-joins the group for his PhD studies.
October 2018
Many congratulations to Alessandro Rognoni and Francesco Moriggi for getting their Master Degree in Chemistry,
and to Alessandro Fasan for getting his Bachelor Degree in Chemistry.
September 26th, 2018
Fabio gave a talk titled
“Ab-initio and force field molecular dynamics applied to vibrational spectroscopy: the case of Deoxyguanosine and Ac-Phe-Met-NH2”
at the MolSimEng 2018 meeting held in Milan.
The talk is part of the dissemination of the ERC project outcomes. Giovanni, Chiara and Marco Cazzaniga presented their posters.
April 17th, 2018
Riccardo gave a talk titled
“Semiclassical vibrational spectroscopy: the importance of quantum anharmonicity in supramolecular systems”
at the AMOC (Anharmonicity in Medium-Sized Molecules and Clusters) workshop held in Budapest on April 16-19th, 2018.
The talk is part of the dissemination of the ERC project outcomes.
April 13th, 2018
Prof. Matteo Tommasini from Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiale e Ingegneria Chimica “Giulio Natta”,
Politecnico di Milano, gave a seminar titled “Vibrational fingerprints of molecular structure: the case of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons”
hr. 11:00, Aula Montanari, Dipartimento di Chimica
February 28th, 2018
Prof. Chiara Castiglioni from Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiale e Ingegneria Chimica “Giulio Natta”,
Politecnico di Milano, gave a seminar titled
“Spettroscopia vibrazionale per la scienza dei materiali: sinergie tra l’osservazione sperimentale e la modellazione teorica dello spettro”
hr. 11:00, Aula Bianchi, Dipartimento di Chimica
February 16th, 2018
Riccardo gave a talk titled
“Investigating molecular quantum vibrational frequencies with semiclassical dynamics:
theory and application to systems of astrochemical interest”
at the ASTRO-Winter modeling workshop held in Bologna on 15-16th February 2018.
The talk is part of the dissemination of the ERC project outcomes.
February 2nd, 2018
Congratulations to Chiara for her final PhD discussion and commencement.
February 2nd, 2018
Dr. Frank Grossmann from Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Technische Universitaet Dresden,
gave a seminar titled “Semiclassical initial value representations: Basics and applications to quantum dissipation”
hr. 11:00, Aula Montanari, Dipartimento di Chimica
October 2017
Congratulations to Giacomo Botti and Stefano Americo for getting their Bachelor Degree in Chemistry. Good Job!
September 2017
Welcome to Jaime, Max, Marco, and Gianluca who join the group as postdoctoral fellows.
Max's webpage
Marco's webpage
Gianluca's webpage
March 14th, 2017
Dr. Lorenzo Mino from University of Turin gave a seminar titled
“Catalysis and photocatalysis on TiO2 nanoparticles: a surface science approach”
hr. 14:30, Aula 302, Settore Didattico Celoria
January 19th, 2017
Dr. Huaqing Li gave a seminar titled “Keep Dynamical Quantum Effect in Multi-dimensional MD”
hr. 14:30, Aula Bianchi, Dipartimento di Chimica
November 28th, 2016
Dr. Jaime Suarez gave a seminar titled “GridTDSE: Cartesian coordinate-based wave packet propagations in QMD”
hr. 14:30, Aula Bianchi, Dipartimento di Chimica
November 1st, 2016
Marco Micciarelli joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
September 30th, 2016
Riccardo gave a talk on glycine vibrational frequencies at MolSimEng 2016 workshop held at Politecnico di Milano.
The talk is part of the dissemination of the ERC project outcomes. Chiara and Giovanni have presented their posters.
September 19th, 2016
Chiara's poster entitled "A Quantum Approximate Method for the Calculation of Thermal Reaction Rate Constants" has been selected for a Lightning Presentation at "Reaction Rate Theory: Faraday Discussion" held at Cambridge University. Good job, Chiara!
August 3rd, 2016
Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy's most important economic newspaper, has pointed out the importance of the Nobel lecture held by Martin Karplus: "Events like this
one are essential for promoting scientific culture in Italy" is the journal opinion on the meeting organized by Michele.
June 2016
Giovanni's poster titled "Accurate and Efficient Prefactors for the Semiclassical Initial Value Representation Propagator" presented at the Path Integral Quantum Mechanics: Theory, Simulation and Application school in Lausanne has been selected and awarded a prize as one of the best posters.
June 2016
Michele has co-organized the CECAM meeting "Different routes to quantum molecular dynamics" held in Lausanne. The group has participated to the meeting.
June 1st, 2016
Huaqing joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
April 1-10th, 2016
Professor Martin Karplus spent ten days in Milan and gave a lecture.
March 1st, 2016
Ágnes joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
November 1st, 2015
Fabio and Giovanni start their PhD and Riccardo joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
October 12th, 2015
The Università degli Studi di Milano website announced Michele's promotion to Associate Professor.
April 16th, 2016
Prof. N. Serpone gives a seminar titled "Four Decades of Heterogeneous Photocatalysis: Where are the much promised Solar Fuels?"
hr. 14:30, Aula 403, Settore Didattico Celoria
April 9th, 2015
Corriere della Sera published a detailed article about all ERC grants won by researchers belonging to Milan universities this year. Michele Ceotto has achieved the only ERC grant in our institution, Univerità degli Studi di Milano.
April 1st, 2015
Corriere della Sera, one of the most important Italian newspapers, published an interview with Michele Ceotto.
Michele speaks about his life and the ERC grant he has just won.
March 23rd, 2015
The Università degli Studi di Milano website announced our ERC grant.
March 16th, 2015
Michele Ceotto has just won a 2 million € European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant.
The group congratulates him on this important achievement!
February 2nd, 2015
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