Vittorio Limongelli

Name and Last name: Vittorio Limongelli

Date of birth: 22.01.1981

Status: Married with 3 kids

Address: via G. Buffi 13, CH-6900 Lugano (Switzerland)

e-mail: [email protected]

website:
https://sites.google.com/site/vittoriolimongelli/home 

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google scholar:
https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=Kn4NCY4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

Tel: +41 58 666 4293

Current position:

Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Pharmacology, faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University of Lugano USI (Switzerland)

Work experiences, Education and Awards

• 9/2019 Director of the Life Sciences Competence Center - Ticino Innovation Park (Switzerland)
• 2019 Elected member of the academic Senate of USI Lugano (Switzerland)
• 12/2018 Professor promoting committee member of USI Lugano (Switzerland)
• 9/2018 Director of the PhD program in Drug Sciences of USI Lugano (Switzerland)
• 1/2018 Associate Professor at USI Lugano (Switzerland)
• 5/12/2017 Qualification to function as Full Professor at Italian University
• 2017. Award as a most meritorious runner-up of the 2017 EFMC (the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry) Prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia
• 2017. Award for the Young Researcher in Medicinal Chemistry 2016
  from the French Medicinal Chemistry Society
• 2017 Elected member of the academic Senate of USI Lugano (Switzerland)
• 2016. Affiliation to the Center for Computational Medicine in Cardiology (CCMC)
• 2015. Editorial Board Member of the Nature Publishing Group journal “Scientific Reports”
• 01/2015 Tenure-track position as Senior Assistant Professor at USI Lugano (Switzerland)
• 29/01/2014 Qualification to function as Associate Professor at Italian University
• 2013. Awarded with the “Scrocco” prize of the Italian Chemical Society for “the original contribution to the study of biological phenomena using advanced computational methods” (http://www.oldsoc.chim.it/files/divisioni/teorica_computazionale/pdf/Comunicato_Premi_2013.pdf)
• 12/2010 Researcher at University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy) 
• 07/2008-12/2010 He signed a contract as PostDoc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) of Zurich (Switzerland) in the group of Professor Michele Parrinello
• 12/2007-06/2008 He worked as Post-Doc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) of Zurich (Switzerland) in the group of Professor Michele Parrinello
• 12/2007-06/2008 He got a Post-Doc fellowship at University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy)
• 18/12/2007 PhD Defense with a thesis entitled: “Ensemble-docking approach on BACE-1: pharmacophore perception and guidelines for drug design”, published on-line at:
  http://www.fedoa.unina.it/1909/ 
• 11/2004-11/2007 PhD student in Pharmaceutical Science at University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy).
• 09/2007-11/2007 Visiting PhD student in the lab of Professor Michele Parrinello at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) of Zurich (Switzerland)
• 04/2007-07/2007 Visiting PhD student in the lab of Computational Science of the Department of Pharmaceutical Science of the University of Bologna (supervisor: Prof. Andrea Cavalli)
• 12/2004 He passed the examination for the job practice as Pharmacist (PharmD).
• 12/07/2004 Laurea Degree in "Medicinal Chemistry and Technology" at University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy) (110/110 cum laude and plauso accademico). Thesis in computational science, entitled: “Docking studies on alphavbeta3 integrin ligands: pharmacophore refinement and implications for drug design” (Supervisor: Prof. E. Novellino)
• 2004. Awarded with the “Domenico Capece” prize from “Ordine dei Farmacisti di Benevento” for academic merit
• 07/1999 High School Scientific Diploma at "Liceo Scientifico "V. De Caprariis"" of Atripalda (AV) (Italy) (Mark: 100/100)

Research activity summary (updated on 31.05.2020)

• 62 Articles published on peer-reviewed journals, 21 (34%) as first/last and/or corresponding author
• h-index: 30 (source: Google Scholar Citations on 25.5.2020)
• Total Citations: 2388 (source: Google Scholar Citations 25.5.2020)
• 39 average citations per article (source: Google Scholar Citations 25.5.2020)
• 1 Article on Nature Protocols as corresponding last author
• 1 Article on Nature Methods
• 1 Article on Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Comput. Mol. Sci.
  as single author
• 5 Articles on PNAS, 4 as first author and corresponding author
• 5 Articles on JACS, 1 as corresponding author
• 2 Articles on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 1 as first author 
• 2 Articles on Nucleic Acids Research, 1 as corresponding last author
• 5 Articles on Scientific Reports, 4 as corresponding author and 3 as last author
• 10 Articles on J. Med. Chem., 2 as corresponding author and 1 as last author
• 25 Scientific projects granted
• 16 articles (26%) published on journals with IF > 9.5, whose 8 as first author and/or corresponding author
• Limongelli et al. “The G-triplex DNA” Angew. Chem. 2013 recommended by
  Faculty of 1000
• “Exploring the Binding of GABA to the Insect RDL Receptor with Metadynamics” awarded with the
  2016 Student Research Achievement prize at 30^th Biophysical Society Meeting.
• Tens posters presented at international scientific meetings

The full list of publications is available clicking https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kn4NCY4AAAAJ&hl=en