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Claudio Anselmi studied Industrial Chemistry at the Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' (Italy), graduating in 1995. Then he started his PhD under the supervision of Prof. P. De Santis, obtaining the doctoral degree in 2000. Later he became associate researcher in the same group. In 2004 he moved to the Statistical and Biological Physics Sector of SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) in Trieste (Italy), where he worked with Prof. Paolo Carloni. In January 2009 he joined the Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Group at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics.
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Vanessa Leone studied Biochemistry at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo (Uruguay) graduating in 2005. There, from 2003 to 2005, she worked as a teacher assistant with E. Laura Coitiño at the Laboratorio de Química Teórica Computacional. Then she moved to the Scuola Internazionale di Studi Avanzati (Trieste, Italy) and in 2009 she obtained a PhD in Functional and Structural Genomics under the supervision of Paolo Carloni. From November 2009 she is a postdoc in the TMB group.
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Fabrizio Marinelli studied Chemistry at the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome, where he obtained his master degree in 2005 under the supervision of Andrea Amadei and Alfredo Di Nola. In 2009 he obtained a PhD degree in Statistical and Biological Physics at the International School of Advanced Studies in Trieste (Italy) under the supervision of Alessandro Laio. During 2007 he was a visiting student with Prof. Gale in Perth (Australia), where he worked with Stefano Piana in the development of enhanced simulation methods. He joined the TMB group in late 2009.
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Carmen Ortiz-Cantos read commercial, business and administrative studies in Seville, Spain. After her studies she held a number of senior secretarial and commercial positions in the banking, marketing as well as scientific fields in Germany (Frankfurt), the United Kingdom (London) and Spain (Seville). She is a native Spanish speaker with excellent knowledge of German and English. Since April 2010 she is at the Max-Planck-Institute, responsible for all administrative and secretarial matters for the Theoretical Molecular Biology and the Computational Structural Biology groups. She also co-organises the Institute's Seminar Series.
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Davide Branduardi joined the TMB group in May 2011. He studied Materials Science at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where he obtained a master's degree in 2002. He then spent one year at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research. In 2004 he joined Prof. Michele Parrinello's group in Lugano (Switzerland), where he studied enhanced simulation techniques in biological problems, and obtained a PhD in 2009. He subsequently worked with Prof. Andrea Cavalli at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova. He is one of the developers of PLUMED.
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Wenchang Zhou studied at Beijing Normal University (China), where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a Master's degree in Biochemistry. Funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, in 2008 he joined the group of Kay Diederichs at the University of Konstanz (Germany), to pursue a PhD degree. At the present time he is completing his doctoral work in the TMB group.
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Zlatka Rasheva is studying for a Master's degree in Mathematics at the Technical University in Darmstadt (Germany), where she also obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Computer Science in 2012. The research work for her Bachelor's thesis was carried out in the Biometrics group at the the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research. In September 2012 she joined the TMB group as a student research assistant.
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Former members
Diana Garzón joined the group to complete a MSc degree in Bioinformatics from the University Pompeu-Fabra of Barcelona, graduating in 2009. Thanks to a scholarship from the International Max Planck Research School, she continued in the group as a PhD student, graduating in 2013.
Alexander Krah joined the group as undergraduate Chemistry student from the University of Frankfurt in 2008, and after obtaining his Diploma, he stayed on to pursue a PhD, graduating in 2013. His work in the lab enabled him to secure a postdoctoral fellowship at Kyoto University.
Peter J Bond did his doctoral and postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford. He joined the group in 2007, and was subsequently awarded an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship. In 2010 he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, to lead his own research group at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics. LINK
Banaja Dash enrolled in the International Max Planck Research School in 2008, and did a rotation in the group. In 2009 she moved to the University of Frankfurt, as a PhD student.
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