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Curriculum Vitae
Fabio Cecconi

 Born: 11 May 1966 Rome, Italy

  • 1993, Degree in Physics at University "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy
    Theoretical Thesis: "Markovian approximation of chaotic dynamical systems"

  • 1999, Ph.D. in Physics at University of Florence (Italy)
    Theoretical Thesis: "Interfaces in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems;"

  • 1999-2001, Postdoctoral position at "International School for Advanced Studies" (SISSA) Trieste, Italy.

  • 2002, Research fellowship at Physics Dept. of University "La Sapienza", Rome Italy.

  • 2003, Research fellowship at the "Center For Statistical Mechanics and Complexity" Rome-Italy.
    National Institute for the study of Condensed Matter (INFM).

  • 2004-2009, Researcher at the "Center For Statistical Mechanics and Complexity" Rome-Italy.
    National Institute for the study of Condensed Matter (INFM).

  • 2009-Present, Researcher at the "Institute For Complex Systems (ISC)"
    National Research Council of Italy (CNR).

Projects

  • PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) 2010
    Project Title: "Application of biological nanopores for the detection of protein post-translational modification" (BINAPT)
    Project leader: Fabio Cecconi, CNR, Italy
    Project details: Awarded 35 million core hours on Curie hosted by GENCI at CEA, France

    • Workshops and Congresses

    • "Advanced Course on Deterministic Chaos", Laboratoire de Physique des Oc\'eanes, C.N.R.S.
      Brest (France), June 1991.

    • "V Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica", University of Parma (Italy), 2-15 September 1996.

    • "Summer College in Condensed Matter on Statistical Physics of Frustrated Systems"
      ICTP Trieste (Italy), 28 July - 15 August 1997.

    • Spring College on "Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics of Soft Condensed Matter"
      ICTP Trieste (Italy), 4 - 15 May 1998.

    • XX IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics "Statphys 20", Paris, 20 - 24 July 1998.
      Poster: Scaling Behaviour of Maximum Lyapunov Exponent in Coupled Map Lattices.

    • Workshop "Protein Folding: Simple Models and Experiments"
      ISI Foundation, Villa Gualino (Torino-Italy), April 28 - May 2, 2000.

    • "VI Convegno di fisica Statistica e dei Sistemi Complessi",
      Universita` di Parma (Italy) 29 - 31 May 2001
      Talk: Studio di Dinamica Molecolare sull HIV-1 Protease: Resistenza ai Farmaci e Folding Pathways.
    • "International Workshop on Protein Folding, Structure and Design",
      ICTP Trieste (Italy), 11-22 June 2001.
      Talk: Molecular Dynamics Studies on HIV-1 Protease: Drug Resistance and Folding Pathways.
    • "Colloquio interdisciplinare sulla Biologia"
      Universita` di Roma Tor Vergata, 26 November 2003
      Talk: Approccio geometrico al protein folding
    • "Workshop Forum STADYBIS" - Forum-INFM STADYBYS
      Plesso Didattico - University of Florence (Italy), 6-8 February, 2003
      Talk: Thermal Instability and Length of Proteins.
    • "XXII Convegno di Fisica Teorica e Struttura della Materia" (INFM)
      Fai della Paganella, Trento (Italy), 20-23 March 2003
      Talk: Cooperation Models in Biology.
    • "IX Convegno di fisica Statistica e dei Sistemi Complessi"
      Parma (Italy), 22-24 May 2004
      Talk: Modelli fenomenologici con interazioni native per lo studio del protein folding.
    • CSIMTA Conference: Complex Systems, Intelligence and Modern Technology Applications
      Cherbourg (France), 19-22 September 2004
      Talk: Influence of thermal instability on protein sizes.
    • International conference "BIOPH 05"
      Bari (Italy) September 7-9 2005
      Talk: Mapping the kinetic bottlenecks of hPin1 WW domain through unfolding simulations.
    • "First Australian-Italian Workshop on Statistical Mechanics and Complex Fluids"
      Gold Coast Brisbane (Australia) February 19-22 2006
      Talk: Properties of inelastic hard-rod gases.
    • International conference FD 2006
          "Fluctuations and Dissipation: The new synthesis far from equilibrium"
      Camerino (Italy), March 19-21 2006
      Talk: Properties of the inelastic Takahashi hard-rod gas.
    • International conference "Proteins at Work 2007"
      Perugia (Italy), May 28-30, 2007
      Talk: Computational assessment of mutation impact on domain C5 from Myosin Binding Protein C
    • XIV Convegno di fisica Statistica e dei Sistemi Complessi,
      Parma (Italy), 24-26 June 2009
      Talk: A statistical model for translocation of structured polypeptide chains through nanopores
    • XIII European Conference on Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules (ECSBM)
      Palermo (Italy), August 28 - September 2, 2009.
      Talk: A statistical model for protein translocation across nanopores
    • XII International Workshop on Complex Systems
      Andalo, Trento (Italy), 15-18 March 2010.
      Talk: Statistical dynamics of protein translocation
    • School-Conference Anomalous Transport: from Billiards to Nanosystems
      Sperlonga (Italy), 20-24 Sept. 2010.
      Talk: Transport of proteins across nanopores: a physicist's perspective
    • Conference: Dynamics of Complex Systems
      Université de Cergy-Pontoise (France), 5-9 Sept. 2011
      Talk: Computational comparison between the driven dynamics of Maltose Binding Protein across nano-channels and its mechanical denaturation. .
    • Conference: FisMat2013
      Politecnico di Milano, 09-13 Sept. 2013, Milano (Italy)
      Talk: Protein translocation in narrow pores: inferring bottlenecks from native-structure topology .
    • Conference: "Mathematical and Statistical Models for Genetic Coding".
      Mannheim University of Applied Sciences 26-28 Sept. 2013, Mannheim (Germany)
      Talk: Nanopores as biosensors: sequencing and theoretical challenges.
    • Conference: "Biophysics@Rome2014"
      CNR-Area Ricerca Tor Vegata 22-23 May 2014, Rome (Italy).
      Talk: Coarse-grained modeling of protein unspecifically bound to DNA
    • "XIX Convegno Nazionale di Fisica Statistica e dei Sistemi Complessi".
      University of Parma, 25-27 June 2014, Parma (Italy).
      Talk: Multistep protein transport across nanopores: description and prediction.
    • Conference: "Biophysics@Rome2015"
      CNR-Area Ricerca Tor Vegata 28-29 May 2015, Rome (Italy).
      Talk: Protein translocation through graphene nanopores.
    • Mini-workshop: "Paths through chaos and complexity".
      Area di Ricerca CNR, June 8-9 2015, Florence (Italy).
      Talk: Protein transport across nano-channels: basic mechanisms and applications.
    • Workshop-School: "Non standard transport"
      Gran Sasso Science Institute, July 15-17 2015, L'Aquila (Italy).
      Talk: Complexity in the transport of biomolecules across nano-channels.
    • Workshop: "Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems"
      Sapienza University , 18-20 Sept. 2017, Rome (Italy).
      Talk: Negative mobility, the paradoxical response of inertial tracers in steady laminar flows.
    • Conference:"FisMat2017"
      ICTP-SISSA Miramare Campus, 1-5 October 2017, Trieste (Italy).
      Talk: Frequency-control of protein translocation across an oscillating nanopore.
    • Conference: "La genesi dei modelli: teoria, simulazioni e dati"
      Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, November 25-27 2019, Rome (Italy).
      Talk: Costruzione di modelli da dati strutturali: loro applicazione allo studio della traslocazione di proteine.
    • Workshop: "Frontiers in Ion Channels and Nanopores: theory, experiments, and simulation" (FICN2021)
      University of Rome "Sapienza", February 2-5 2021, Rome (Italy).
      Talk: Competition among electrophoresis, electroosmosis and dielectrophoresis in particle capture into nanopores.
    • Conference: "SR40, 1981-2021 forty years of Stochastic Resonance"
      University of Perugia, 13-15 Sept. 2021, Perugia (Italy).
      Talk: Frequency-control of protein translocation across an oscillating nanopore
    • II SIFS Conference: "XXVI National Conference on Statistical Physics and Complex Systems"
      University of Parma, 20th-22th June 2022, Parma (Italy).
      Talk: Understanding causation via correlations and linear response theory.
    • International Workshop: "Transport in Narrow Channels (TNC22)"
      Institute d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (IESC), 5th - 9th Sept. 2022, Cargese (FR).
      Talk: Protein Transport Across Nanopores: Statistical Mechanical description based on Coarse-Grained Modeling and Approaches