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Name | Luigi Vitagliano |
Area | Research&Development |
Position | Research Director |
Work site | Naples - Castellino |
Address | Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Naples - Italy |
luigi.vitaglianocnr.it | |
Mobile phone | +39 349.441.49.98 |
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.