Federica Lodesani

Federica Lodesani was born in Modena (MO), February 4, 1994. She received her bachelor degree in Chemistry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with a thesis entitled 'Study of supercritical carbon dioxide adsorption in modular phyllosilicates through molecular dynamics simulations'. [1]

She received her master degree in Chemical Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (22/02/2019) with a thesis entitled 'Computer simulations of soda lime aluminosilicate glasses for nuclear waste confinment.'. During her master she spent six months at CEA Paris-Saclay (France), Commissariat à l'Ènergie Atomique, under the supervision of tutor Dr. Thibault Charpentier working on aluminosilicate glasses suitable for nuclear waste confinement combining atomistic simulations and NMR spectroscopy. [4,5]

From March to August 2019 she got a research grant to study the mixed alkali effect in aluminosilicate glasses under the supervision of Prof. Alfonso Pedone in collaboration with AGC Japan. [2]

In 2022, she spent six months at CEA Paris-Saclay under the supervision of Dr. T. Charpentier as an external collaborator. The subject of the work was the identification of hydrated aluminosilicate glasses structure using NMR spectroscopy and computer simulations.

She started the PhD in 2019 at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, under the supervision of Prof. A. Pedone collaborating with AGC Japan. She is currently at her third year working on the computational study of crystallization and nucleation of silicate glasses.

She has experience of Fortran77/90 programming and some knowledge of C and Bash.

She is a user of software for molecular modeling and simulation (DL_POLY, LAMMPS, PLUMED, VMD, OVITO).

She participated at the CCP5 Summer School 2021 where she attended the advanced course on "Mesoscale methods".

Her research is focused on:

• study the mechanism of crystallization of silicate glasses performing molecular dynamics simulations and metadynamics [3,6,7] 

• simulation of structural, dynamical, thermodynamical and spectroscopic properties of silica-based inorganic materials as well as on simulation and experiment of NMR spectroscopy
  
  

She is co-author of 8 papers published on international journals.

Google Scholar Citations

[1] Muniz-Miranda, F., Lodesani, F., Tavanti, F., Presti, D., Malferrari, D., & Pedone, A. (2016). Supercritical CO2 confined in palygorskite and sepiolite minerals: a classical molecular dynamics investigation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(47), 26945-26954.

[2] Lodesani, F., Menziani, M. C., Hijiya, H., Takato, Y., Urata, S., & Pedone, A. (2020). Structural origins of the mixed alkali effect in alkali aluminosilicate glasses: molecular dynamics study and its assessment. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-18.

[3] Lodesani, F., Menziani, M. C., Maeda, K., Takato, Y., Urata, S., & Pedone, A. (2020). Disclosing crystal nucleation mechanism in lithium disilicate glass through molecular dynamics simulations and free-energy calculations. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-14.

[4] Delaye, J. M., Le Gac, A., Macaluso, S., Angeli, F., Lodesani, F., Charpentier, T., & Peuget, S. (2021). Investigation of alumino-silicate glasses by coupling experiments and simulations: Part I-Structures. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 567, 120936.

[5] Delaye, J. M., Le Gac, A., Macaluso, S., Angeli, F., Lodesani, F., Charpentier, T., & Peuget, S. (2021). Investigation of alumino-silicate glasses by coupling experiments and simulations: Part II-radiation effects. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 569, 120969.

[6] Lodesani, F., Tavanti, F., Menziani, M. C., Maeda, K., Takato, Y., Urata, S., & Pedone, A. (2021). Exploring the crystallization path of lithium disilicate through metadynamics simulations. Physical Review Materials, 5(7), 075602.

[7] Lodesani, F., Menziani, M. C., Urata, S., & Pedone, A. (2022). Biasing crystallization in fused silica: An assessment of optimal metadynamics parameters. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 156(19), 194501.

[8] Lodesani, F., Menziani, M. C., Urata, S., & Pedone, A. (2023). Evidence of Multiple Crystallization Pathways in Lithium Disilicate: A Metadynamics Investigation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14, 1411-1417.