Cecilia Coletti is Degree in Chemistry at the University of Perugia (Italy) in 1993 and has achieved the PhD in Chemical Sciences (Physical Chemistry) at the same university in 1997. Her activity is mainly devoted to the theoretical investigation of molecular structure and dynamics starting from model systems, through systems of growing complexity, to macromolecules of biological and pharmaceutical interest. She has worked with Prof. Aquilanti (University of Perugia) and Prof. J. Avery (University of Copenhagen) on the development of alternative coordinate systems and basis sets to be used for the description of atomic structures or for atoms in fields. Working with Prof. G. Billing, she addressed the detailed description of the nuclear dynamics of molecular systems, contributing to the development of novel mixed quantumclassical methodologies and to their application to systems of interest in atmospherical, optical and laser chemistry. More recently, at the University of Chieti, her reserach interests focus on the accurate investigation of simple systems or of weak interactions using highly correlated post Hartree-Fock methods and on the study of the electronic structure, binding and reactivity of organometallic compounds of technological and pharmaceutical importance, by quantum mechanical techniques (DFT, post-HF methods), QM/MM or molecular modeling. This activity is reported in ca. 60 papers published on international journals and reviews and the results have been presented in more than 100 international workshops and conferences.
