Federico Palazzetti is associate professor at Università San Raffaele Roma. He received his PhD in chemistry in 2009, in Perugia. He was a post-doctoral scholar in Perugia, at the Italian National Research Council and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He has participated in extensive collaborations with the National Chung Hsing University and the National Taiwan University, where he collaborated with King-Chuen Lin and Toshio Kasai. His research interests include intermolecular interactions in biological systems, representation of potential energy surfaces, molecular dynamics simulations, stereo-dynamical effects in chemical reactions, and astrochemistry.