Born in Catania on 09. 11. 1967. July 1992: Degree in Chemistry c/o University of Catania. September 1992-March 1993: Stage c/o laboratories of research and development in S. I. F. I. (Societ Industria Farmaceutica Italiana) (Catania). March 1995-March 1997: Study grant on: "Stability, structure e dynamic of protein and Conformational and thermodynamic studies of cellulases c/o biothermodynamic laboratory of Institute of Macromolecules (IMAG), CNR, Genova. May 1997-November 1997: Research collaborator with IMAG-CNR on: Develop of software programs for the analysis of electrophoretic migration and titration calorimetric experimental dates and theoretical analysis of experimental dates on the conformational stability of protein structures. Dicember 1997 October 2000: Fellow researcher (non permanent position) c/o Institute of Macromolecules, CNR, Genova, european grant CE BIO4 97 2303. October 2000 November 2001; research collaborator with IMAG-CNR on: analysis of calorimetric, spectrophotometric and fluorimetric dates of proteins. December 2001 October 2004: Fellow Researcher c/o Institute of Macromolecular Studies, National Council of Research (ISMAC-CNR), Genova. From november 2004: Fellow Researcher c/o Institute of Biostructures e Bioimages, National Council of Reserch (IBB-CNR), Catania. COURSES: First National School of Chemical-Physical Methodologies for the study of biological systems, Martina Franca (TA), 5-9 September 2005 National School of Introduction to Photochemistry, University of Bologna, Department of Chemistry G. Ciamician, 13-17 September 2010. COLLABORATIONS: Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Biologiche, Universit di Udine, Italy. Dipartimento di Chimica S. Cannizzaro, Universit di Palermo, Italy. Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Universit di Catania, Italy. Prion Biology Laboratory, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. Department of biochemistry, Computational Structural Biology Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Laboratory of Animal Cell Biochemistry of A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.