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Contact data

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences
VIA LUCINI 3 22100 COMO
Tel:++ 39 031 326214
Fax: ++39 031 326230
E-mail: gloria.tabacchi@uninsubria.it

 

Biography

Born 23.09.1971. Graduated at the University of Padova 110/110 cum laude (March 1996). Ph.D in Chemistry at University of Milano.

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute of Festkörperforshung Stuttgart, in the Research Group of Professor M. Parrinello.

Assistant Professor at the University of Insubria in Como.

 

Qualifications and awards

Best Poster Award (E. Fois, A. Gamba, G. Tabacchi: Charge Transfer in Titanium Zeolites: An Ab Initio Approach) at the 2005 National INSTM CONGRESS
 

Research interests

Simulation, with both first principles and empirical force field based techniques, of complex systems, of relevance in both solid state physical chemistry and biochemistry/enzymology.

Development of approximated DFT methods.
 

Teaching experience and appointments

OFFICIAL COURSES (BS in Chemical Sciences):
Nanomaterials
Molecular principles of Electronics
 

Representative  publications

1. Fois E, Gamba A, Medici C, Tabacchi, G. Intermolecular electronic excitation transfer in a confined space: A first-principles study CHEMPHYSCHEM 6 (9): 1917-1922 SEP 5 2005

2. Tabacchi G, Hutter J, Mundy CJ
A density-functional approach to polarizable models: A Kim-Gordon response density interaction potential for molecular simulations
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 123 (7): Art. No. 074108 AUG 15 2005

3. Fois E, Gamba A, Tabacchi G, et al.
High-pressure behaviour of yugawaralite at different water content: an ab initio study
STUDIES IN SURFACE SCIENCE AND CATALYSIS 155: 271-280 2005

4. Fois E, Gamba A, Tabacchi G
Electronic spectra of Ti(IV) in zeolites: An ab initio approach
CHEMPHYSCHEM 6 (7): 1237-1239 JUL 11 2005

5. Fois E, Gamba A, Tabacchi G, et al.
The "template" effect of the extra-framework content on zeolite compression: The case of yugawaralite
AMERICAN MINERALOGIST 90 (1): 28-35 JAN 2005

6. Arletti R, Ferro O, Quartieri S, Tabacchi, G. Vezzzalini, G..
Structural deformation mechanisms of zeolites under pressure
AMERICAN MINERALOGIST 88 (10): 1416-1422 OCT 2003

7. Fois E, Gamba A, Tabacchi G, Quartieri S, Vezzalini G. Ab initio study of defect sites at the inner surfaces of mesoporous silicas
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 107 (39): 10767-10772 OCT 2 2003

8. Chen B, Park JM, Ivanov I, Tabacchi G ,Klein ML, Parrinello M,
First-principles study of aqueous hydroxide solutions
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 124 (29): 8534-8535 JUL 24 2002

9. Tabacchi G, Mundy CJ, Hutter J, Parrinello, M..
Classical polarizable force fields parametrized from ab initio calculations
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 117 (4): 1416-1433 JUL 22 2002

10. Fois E, Gamba A, Tabacchi G, Quartieri S, Vezzalini G.
On the collective properties of water molecules in one-dimensional zeolitic channels
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS 3 (18): 4158-4163 SEP 15 2001

11. Fois E, Gamba A, Tabacchi G
First-principles simulation of the intracage oxidation of nitrite to nitrate sodalite CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 329 (1-2): 1-6 OCT 13 2000

12. Fois E, Tabacchi G, Quartieri S, Vezzalini G Dipolar host guest interactions and geometrical confinement at the basis of the stability of one-dimensional ice in zeolite bikitaite
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 111 (1): 355-359 JUL 1 1999

13. Fois E, Gamba A, Tabacchi G
Structure and dynamics of a Bronsted acid site in a zeolite: An ab initio study of hydrogen sodalite
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 102 (20): 3974-3979 MAY 14 1998

14. Casarin M, Maccato C, Tabacchi G, Vittadini A.
A LCAO-LDF study of Bronsted acids chemisorption on ZnO(0001) SURFACE SCIENCE 352: 341-345 MAY 15 1996
 

 

 
 
   
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