Dr. GiovanniMaria Piccini receives the Ewald Wicke Prize
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Dr. GiovanniMaria Piccini was awarded the Ewald Wicke Prize by the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie for “his methodological developments in nuclei and reaction dynamics and their application to relevant chemical problems”.
Dr. GiovanniMaria Piccini at the Bunsentagung 2018 Photo: Ann-Kathrin Richter
Dr. GiovanniMaria Piccini, research group of Prof. Parrinello, is currently working on the development and application of enhanced sampling methods for studying complex chemical reactions. His work focuses on the automation of the so called “chemical intuition” process in designing efficient and physically relevant collective variables. Recent application of these methods range from gas-phase and bulk chemical reactions, materials phase transitions and drug-unbinding in protein dynamics.
Prof. Dr. J. Sauer (HU Berlin), Dr. GiovanniMaria Piccini (ETHZ), and Dr. U. Nickel (President of the DBG) at the ceremony for the Ewald Wicke Prize on May 10, 2018 Photo: Ann-Kathrin Richter