HDR Dr. Vania Calandrini

PI

Publications and Statistics

I am a researcher at the Computational Biomedicine Institute IAS-5/INM-9, Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany). I studied Physics at the University of Perugia (Italy), where I got the Master. I defended my PhD thesis in Physics at the University of Parma (Italy). In 2011 I obtained the Habilitation in Physics at the University of Orléans (France), with a dissertation on “Stochastic dynamics in molecular liquids and proteins”. In 2012 I obtained the Qualification for University professor positions from the French National Council of Universities (Conseil National des Universités).

 

Scientific Honours and Awards

2004 - INFM Prize for the best Italian Ph.D. thesis in condensed/soft matter using neutron scattering spectroscopy

2007 - “Angelo Della Riccia” research fellowship 2007

Most relevant funding in the last 5 years raised by Vania Calandrini as PI

Title of the Grant	Co-applicants	Call	Time period	Amount €
Long-Range Electrodynamic interactions between Proteins	CNRS (France) University of Gothenburg (Sweden) TERAKALIS (The Netherlands) Micronit Microtechnologies B.V. (The Netherlands)	H2020 FET OPEN	2021-2025	GA in preparation
Modeling of Collective Transport Phenomena relevant to Neural Cascades	Prof. Jan K. Dhont and Prof. Gerhard Nägele (FZJ)	“Vernetzungsdoktoranden“ Call funded by FZJ	2020-2022	3-years PhD position (~100,000)
Generalized Langevin Equation-based simulations for mesoscale description of neural cascades	Prof. Benjamin Stamm (RWTH Aachen University)	FZJ and RWTH Aachen University co-fund for Center for Simulation and Data Sciences	2018-2021	4-years PhD position (~135,000)

Most Relevant funding in the last 5 years where Vania Calandrini contributed as co-applicant

Title of the Grant	Call	Time period	Amount €
HPC-LEAP: High Performance Computing for Life Sciences, Engineering and Physics	EU Commission - Innovative Training Network (ITN)	2014-2018	428,559

Teaching Activities over the last 5 years

2020	CAMMP week Pro (Sept 28th–Oct 9th) in computational mathematical modelling organized by RWTH University
2019	CAMMP week Pro. Excursion week (June 10th–15th) in computational mathematical modelling applied to real and relevant research topics.
2018	CAMMP week Pro. Excursion week (September 16th–21st) in computational mathematical modelling applied to real and relevant research topics.
2014-2015	Lectures on classical and statistical thermodynamics in the framework of the course “From molecular to Continuum Physics” for Master-of-Science’s students @ University of Aachen. Responsible Prof. P. Carloni.
2013-2014	Lectures on Computational Molecular Biology for Master-of-Science’s students @ University of Aachen. Responsible Prof. P. Carloni.
2013	Lectures on Data Analysis and Visualization for Master-of-Science’s students @ University of Aachen. Responsible Prof. P. Carloni.

Organizing Activities over the last 5 years

2016 Organizer of the “School on numerical analysis and algorithms at the exascale: Classical N-body methods for complex systems on massively parallel architectures” at the German Research School (Aachen) in the framework of the European Joint Doctorates in High Performance Computing for Life sciences, Engineering and Physics http://www.hpc-leap.eu, EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

GROUP

Members

Vania Calandrini, Research associate

Loris Di Cairano, Ph.D student

José Saúl Hernández Fragoso, Ph.D student

Research interests and activities

Our research aims at modeling the signaling processes occurring at subneuronal level. To this end we develop multiscale (hybrid) models and computational methods (from atomistic/coarse grained to mesoscale) to describe internal protein dynamics and transport phenomena of macromolecules occurring at subcellular level, based on statistical mechanics approaches.

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