Riccardo Conte
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Chimica
Università degli studi di Milano
Riccardo Conte
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Chimica
Università degli studi di Milano
Room 131O Corpo A (first floor)
via Golgi 19, Milano 20133, ITALY
Tel: +39 02 503 14230
Email: riccardo.conte1@unimi.it
An alumnus of the most prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy (Diploma and Ph.D. in chemistry) and University of Pisa (M.Sc. in chemsitry), I am currently associate professor of theoretical physical chemistry at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. I performed my postdoctoral studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (Prof. Eli Pollak's group), Emory University, Atlanta, USA (Prof. Joel Bowman's group), and Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (Prof. Michele Ceotto's group).
Main research interests
- Development of semiclassical dynamics
- Development of efficient machine-learned PES-fitting techniques.
- Quasi-classical trajectory scattering and spectroscopy.
Select Publications
- R. Conte, C. Aieta, G. Botti, M. Cazzaniga, M. Gandolfi, C. Lanzi, G. Mandelli, D. Moscato and M. Ceotto “ Anharmonicity and quantum nuclear effects in theoretical vibrational spectroscopy: a molecular tale of two cities”, Theor. Chem. Acc. 2023, 142, 53.
- G. Botti, C. Aieta and R. Conte “The Complex Vibrational Spectrum of Proline Explained Through the Adiabatically Switched Semiclassical Initial Value Representation”, J. Chem. Phys. 2022, 156, 164303.
- R. Conte, C. Qu, P.L. Houston and J. M. Bowman “Efficient Generation of Permutationally Invariant Potential Energy Surfaces for Large Molecules”, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16, 3264-3272.
- R. Conte, C. Qu, and J. M. Bowman “Permutationally Invariant Fitting of Many-Body, Non-covalent Interactions with Application to Three-Body Methane-Water-Water”, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2015, 11, 1631-1638.
- R. Conte, A. Aspuru-Guzik, and M. Ceotto “Reproducing Deep Tunneling Splittings, Resonances, and Quantum Frequencies in Vibrational Spectra From a Handful of Direct Ab Initio Semiclassical Trajectories”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 3407-3412.
Short CV
- 2024 -
- Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano.
- 2019 - 2024
- Fixed-term researcher, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano.
- 2015 - 2019
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano.
- 2013 - 2015
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department, Emory University, Group of Professor Joel Bowman.
- 2009 - 2012
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Group of Professor Eli Pollak.
- 2008
- Ph. D. in Chemistry, Classe di Scienze, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Advisor: Prof. Giovanni Paolo Arrighini, Thesis Title: “A dynamical approach to the calculation of thermal reaction rate constants”.
- 2003
- Diploma in Chemistry, Classe di Scienze, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Thesis Title: ”The Bachelet-Bassani model developed by means of the forced oscillator method”.
- 2003
- M. Sc. in Chemistry, Università di Pisa Advisor: Prof. Giovanni Paolo Arrighini, Thesis Title: “The forced oscillator method applied to the study of properties of atomic clusters”.
Teaching
- a.y. 2024/25
- Spettroscopia Molecolare
- a.y. 2023/24 -
- Chimica Fisica dei Materiali
- a.y. 2023/24 -
- Chimica Analitica - Chimica Fisica (CTF)
- a.y. 2022/23 - 2023/24
- Chimica Fisica (CTF)
- a.y. 2020/21 -
- Rational Design and Structural Characterization of Bioactive Molecules (MBB) - Structural Chemistry (BCG)
- a.y. 2019/20 - 2021/22
- Metodi Chimici per le Biotecnologie (Biotec)