Name:
Mario Barzaghi
Country:
ITA
City:
Nova Milanese
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ACS Member:
Member
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Technical Division Membership Emeritus:
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Company/Institution Name:
CNR - Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies
Career Stage:
Retired
Research and Special Interests:
I am an independent research scientist.
Until 2012 I was a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM) of the National Research Council (CNR), but I have now retired.
My research projects were in the field of computational chemistry and experimental data analysis, focusing on the electronic structure and properties of molecules and molecular assemblies, and using both first-principles treatments and simplified model systems, in order to establish a link to intuitive chemical concepts.
After retirement I got rid of all the political and bureaucratic crap of public research, and now I can devote myself to my research projects and scientific interests, which actually became a hobby. So I am a youngish old man of 68, who still enjoys solving problems and learning new things.
When in 1970 I began my doctoral thesis work in the laboratory of physical chemistry at the University of Milano, mechanical calculators were still in use and EPR spectra were being interpreted manually by means of rulers. I decided it was time for renewal and so I began to write fortran programs to be applied in solving actual application problems in the laboratory.
Since then, while doing fundamental research in a number of different fields, I only consider a task done once a useful program has emerged.
Area of Expertise:
Structural Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Topological (QTAIM) and Multipole Analysis of Experimental and Theoretical Electron Densities, Experimental and Theoretical Charge Density Approach (ECDA and TCDA) to Molecular Interaction Energies, Molecular Design, Modelling and Data Analysis, Electron Spin Resonance (ESR/EPR) Spectroscopy
Years of Expertise:
26 or more