Physicist by training, Francesco Rao started a PhD at the University of Zurich in the Biochemistry department at the beginning of 2002. The PhD training was concluded by a thesis on protein folding and aggregation, introducing the novel technique of complex networks analysis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. He was then assigned a prestigious Italian fellowship from the research center ``E. Fermi'' located in Rome, where he continued to work on the theory of complex networks and their application to biomolecular transitions. In 2007 he moved to the University of Strasbourg/ISIS in the group of Prof. M. Karplus as an EMBO fellow, investigating the role of dynamics in protein allostery and enzyme catalysis.
Since 2011, he is a research group leader at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) studying the dynamics of complex biomolecular systems.
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies,
School of Soft Matter Research,
Albertstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau (D)
Tel: +49 (0)761 203 97336
Email: francesco.rao + frias.uni-freiburg.de
Postdoctoral fellow
Ion solvation and dynamics. Complex Networks. Pynoramix development.
Tel: +49 (0)761 203 97342
Email: diego.prada + frias.uni-freiburg.de
PhD student
Protein structure and dynamics. Free-energy calculations.
Tel: +49 (0)761 203 97342
Email: stefano.mostarda + frias.uni-freiburg.de
PhD student
Water structure and dynamics in the supercooled regime. Water anomalies.
Tel: +49 (0)761 203 97342
Email: roman.shevchuk + frias.uni-freiburg.de