Francesco Muniz Miranda
Department of Chemical and Geological SciencesUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Postdoctoral fellow
Via G. Campi 103, zip code 41125, Modena, MO, Italy
Voice: +39 059 205 8550
Main e-mail address: f.munizmirandagmail.com
Other e-mail addresses: francesco.munizmirandaunimore.it ; francesco.munizmiranda
unifi.it
I'm 31 years old and I've been working as a postdoctoral fellow (italian "Assegnista di Ricerca") at the Modena University (UniMoRE) since April 2013, under the supervision of Dr. Alfonso Pedone (tenured researcher), on a research project about gold nanoparticles simulations coordinated by Dr. Mirco Zerbetto (researcher) of the University of Padua.
My past & present research fields include simulation of hydrogen-bonded systems, Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics, ab initio & DFT computations, wavelet analysis, vibrational spectroscopy, noble metal nanoparticles & nanoclusters.
I have working knowledge of the CPMD, CP2K, Quantum-Espresso (minimal), Gaussian03/09, and Gamess suites of programs.
I have experience of Fortran77/90 programming and some knowledge of C and Bash.
Academic Bio.
April 2013 → now, post-doctoral fellow at UniMoRE under the supervision of Dr. Pedone.
February 2014: my Ph.D. dissertation has been deemed of "particular scientific value" by the University of Florence and it was uniquely mentioned during the award ceremony (link). The video is available here (min. ~82).
The dissertation itself has been published by the FUP (Firenze University Press) within the "Ph.D. thesis prize 2013" initiative and can be downloaded here for free.
From January 2010 I was employed at LENS as Ph.D. student (25th course) under the supervision of Prof. Emeritus Vincenzo Schettino, and eventually I got my international Ph.D. degree in "Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy" on March 15, 2013.
At LENS I worked mainly with aforementioned Prof. V. Schettino, Prof. Dr. Gianni Cardini (full professor, then head of the Ph.D. school of chemistry in Florence), Prof. Roberto Righini (full professor, then director of LENS), and Dr. Marco Pagliai (then postdoctoral fellow in Florence, now postdoctoral fellow in Barone's group at SNS Pisa).
I also collaborated with Dr. Riccardo Chelli (tenured researcher) and Dr. Victor V. Volkov (then postdoctoral fellow at LENS, now at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany).
My Ph.D. dissertation was reviewed by Prof. Dr. Claus Jørgen Nielsen of the University of Oslo (Norway).
On December 23, 2009, I took part in the competition to get one of the five scholarship of the Ph.D. school of chemistry of the Florence University, ranking 6th.
On December 17, 2009, I obtained a scholarship at LENS (European Lab. for Non-Linear Spectroscopy), Florence, with the highest marks of that competition (114/120).
On December 9, 2009, I got the italian license to work as a senior chemist after a state exam in Florence, with the highest marks of that session (203/240). Rejections rate at that session of the state exam exceeded 70% of the applicants.
I obtained my Master's degree in chemistry (Italian "laurea specialistica") on September 28, 2009, with full marks and honors (110/110 cum laude), at the Florence University.
I got my Bachelor's degree in chemistry (Italian "laurea triennale") in April 2007, with full marks (110/110) at the Florence University.
Curriculum Vitae Studiorumque (pdf format)