Dr. Maria Cristina De Rosa

Maria Cristina De Rosa is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Technologies "Giulio Natta" (SCITEC), Rome, CNR, and since 2017, she has been Chief of SCITEC, Rome, CNR. After studying Chemistry at Sapienza University of Rome, she moved to CNR, where, for three years, she has been a CNR research fellow as an organic chemist. She completed postdoctoral training at the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Siena, where, from 1993 to 1994, she joined the group of Prof. M. Botta, involved in computational chemistry and developing skills in molecular mechanics and dynamics calculations. In 1996, she was a visiting researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, UK, in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Goodford, where she explored computational approaches to structure-based ligand design. In 1997, she obtained a position at SCITEC, Rome, CNR, c/o Catholic University of Rome, to run the Laboratory of Molecular Modelling and Virtual Screening. In this period, she has been teaching Biochemistry at the Catholic University of Rome, Faculty of Medicine, and in 2018, she obtained the National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Biochemistry. Her research interests are the applications of computational chemistry methods to biochemistry and health.