Dr. Luigi Vitagliano received his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the University “Federico II” of Naples, Italy. He is currently Research Director at the Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging of the Italian National Research Council, where he has been the head of the Napoli Centro Unit from 2010 to 2013. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Univerisity of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli where he holds the course of “Design of Bioctive Compouns” in Molecular Biotechnology and he teaches at the Ph.D school in Biomolecular Sciences. He has been member of the international committee for the beam-time allocation at the Elettra Synchrotron from 2004 to 2018 and consultant for Bracco Imaging (2015-2016). Over the years, Dr. Vitagliano has been visiting scientist in several International Institutions (Imperial Collage, London (UK), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (USA), IGBMC, Strasbourg (France), Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA), Aarhus University (Denmark)). His research interests are focused on the structural interpretation of protein function. These activities are generally conducted combining experimental (spectroscopy and crystallography) and computational (molecular modeling/dynamics and data mining) techniques. His activities have led to the publication of nearly 200 papers in journals indexed in Web of Science - including Science, Nature Cell Biology, Embo Journal, JACS, NAR, PNAS, J. of Neuroscience (H-index 42) and to the filing of three patents. 

 Dr. Vitagliano is or has been coordinator/responsible of projects funded by Regional (Campania Region), National (Italian National Research Council, Italian Minister for Research, Italian Space Agency, CNCCS consortium) and International (European Union) Institutions for a total amount of more than 3.5 million euros. He is currently member of the editorial board of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Biomolecules, Diagnostics, Plos One, and Protein and Peptide Letters. He has been invited speaker in several national and international meetings including Gordon and Murnau conferences. He has also chaired the organizing committee of several national and international Congresses/Schools/Workshops.