Experience

XtalPi Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Scientist CADD

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Provided computational support for small molecule drug discovery projects: - CADD/AIDD work for multiple projects in different disease areas for internal pipelines and external clients (Virtual Screening, FEP calculations, AI based generative design, etc.) - Worked as Project Manager on XtalPi's side for projects with external collaborators

• Senior International Business Development Engineer

  • Apr 2019 - Dec 2021

  Greater Boston Area Scientist in support of the Business Development team: - Formulated proposals and conducted research on R&D projects to be conducted internally as well as in collaboration with external partners to expand the capabilities of XtalPi's computational services is relation to Solid Form Development and Drug Discovery - Provided scientific support for Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) cases from pharmaceutical industry partners - Contributed to prospective clients' engagement



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Associate

  • Nov 2015 - Apr 2019

  Novartis funded position to develop methods to study the nucleation mechanism of pharmaceutically relevant organic compounds with computer simulations. Developed order parameters based on an information theoretic approach and implemented them in PLUMED (in collaboration with the developers).



The University of Edinburgh

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • Nov 2013 - Oct 2015

  Development and implementation of novel computer simulation techniques in the framework of the ExTASY project. ExTASY was a collaborative research and software development project involving several research groups in the UK and in the US. The focus of the project was to develop and combine advanced algorithms and data analysis techniques for the simulation of biomolecular systems.



SISSA

• Italy
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• PHD Student

  • Nov 2009 - Oct 2013

  Trieste, Italy As part of a group with expertise ranging from Mathematics to Pharmaceutical science, my work was focused on the development of novel algorithms to perform computer simulations of biomolecules and chemical reactions. My main expertise are in computational statistical mechanics and applications of the theory of stochastic processes.