Curriculum Vitae

Emanuela Zaccarelli CNR-ISC and Dipartimento di Fisica Universita’ “La Sapienza” Piazzale Aldo Moro 2 00185 Roma tel 0649913524; fax 064463158 email: emanuela.zaccarelli@phys.uniroma1.it	Born in Rome, 18-08-1975 two children born in 2008 and 2011
Education and Career Since 2016 Senior Researcher, CNR-ISC: Institute of Complex Systems 2009-2016 Researcher, CNR-ISC: Institute of Complex Systems 2014 Visiting Scientist at the University of Lund (Sweden) 2013, 2008 Visiting Scientist at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) 2004-2009 Researcher, CNR-INFM-SOFT: Complex Dynamics in Structured Systems 2004, 2006 Visiting Scientist at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany 2002-2004 Research Assistant at the Physics Department, University La Sapienza, Roma 16/12/2002 Ph.D., Irish Centre for Colloid Science and Biomaterials, Department of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Ireland 28/10/1999 Laurea in Fisica, University La Sapienza, Roma
Awards 2017 Vigevani Research Project, with Prof. E. Katzav 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant 2013 Awarded a Futuro in Ricerca Grant (Linea 3) 2009 Soft Matter Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry 2006 Prize for Best Researcher of the Marie Curie Network on Dynamical Arrest
Funded Research Projects Principal Investigator of FARE MIUR project SOFTART Enhancing microgel potentialities: ultrasoftness and application to cultural heritage 2018-2021 Principal Investigator of ERC project MIMIC Modeling Microgels: from microscopic design to macroscopic description 2016-2021 Principal Investigator of EU Marie Curie ITN COLLDENSE Hybrid Colloidal Systems with Designed Response (to start in 2015), Coordinator: Sofia Kantorovich (University of Vienna) Coordinator of CNR Unit of MIUR-IT PRIN 2012 Smart gels in soft matter (03/2014-03/2017), National Coordinator: Silvia Corezzi (University of Perugia) National Coordinator of MIUR-IT Futuro in Ricerca 2012 ANISOFT Anisotropies and non equilibrium in soft matter: routes to the self assembly of advanced materials (03/2013-03/2016), with Roberto Cerbino (University of Milan) and Stefano Buzzaccaro and Davide Moscatelli (Politecnico of Milan) Principal Investigator of EU Marie Curie ITN COMPLOIDS The physics of complex colloids: Equilibrium and Driven (11/2009-10/2013), Coordinator: Crhistos Likos (University of Vienna)
Workshops and Schools Organization Soft Matter Self-Assembly Summer School, Varenna Italy, 28/06-07/07/2015, Scientific Secretary. Organizers: F. Sciortino, C. Likos and P. Ziherl Second Edition of Italian Soft Days 23-24/06/2016, Politecnico of Milan, Italy with Stefano Buzzaccaro and Roberto Cerbino First Edition of Italian Soft Days 17-18/09/2014, Sapienza University, Rome, with Stefano Buzzaccaro and Roberto Cerbino Vice-Chair and Member of the Program Committee of the 3rd International Soft Matter Conference 15-19/09/2013, Sapienza University Rome, Italy (Chair: Francesco Sciortino) 3rd International Workshop on Viscous Liquids 30/03-02/04/2011, Accademia dei Lincei Rome, with Thomas Voigtmann and Giorgio Parisi CECAM Workshop: Patchy Colloids, Proteins and Network-Forming Liquids Lyon, France, 26-28/06/2006
List of Invited Talks at Conferences and Schools 27-29 September 2017 LINXS Kickoff meetin, Lund, Swedene Complex systems and scattering: what computer simulations can teach us 17-21 July 2017 10th Liquid Matter Conference, Ljubjana, Slovenia In silico synthesis of microgel particles 8-10 February 2017 MECO42, Lyon, France Anomalous slow dynamics in soft matter 26-30 September 2016 Societa' Italiana di Fisica, Congresso Nazionale, Padova, Italy Effective interactions in soft matter 17-22 July 2016 STATPHYS 27, Lyon, France Anomalous dynamics of intruders in crowded environments 21-25 September 2015 Societa' Italiana di Fisica, Congresso Nazionale, Rome, Italy Glass transition in hard sphere colloids 24-27 March 2015 Cost Action ''Flowing Matter Across the Scales'' Workshop, Rome, Italy Routes to Gelation in Tuning colloidal interactions by controlling the solvent properties: critical Casimir forces and beyond 8-12 December 2014 1st International Workshop on Matter Out-of-Equilibrium, San Luis Potosi, Mexico Routes to Gelation in Colloidal Systems (Overview Lecture) & Is there a glass transition in polydisperse hard spheres? (Invited Talk) 9-13 September 2013 Milan, Italy Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics (FisMat) Tuning colloidal interactions by controlling the solvent properties: critical Casimir forces and beyond 21-26 July 2013 Barcelona, Spain 7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxation in Complex Systems Polydisperse hard spheres: relaxation, fractionation and avalanches 3-13 July 2012 Varenna, Italy Comploids Summer School Lectures on Colloidal Arrested States of Matter 2-7 September 2012 Malmo, Sweden 26th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Science (ECIS) Phase Diagram and Arrested States of Laponite in aqueous solutions 24-28 January 2011Venice, Italy XV SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED BIOPHYSICS on Protein Stability and Pathways of Self-Assembly How far can we understand protein phase behavior (phase diagrams, dynamic arrest) using simple models for colloids? 20-25 September 2010 Bologna, Italy XCVII SIF National Congress Wigner glasses in soft matter 22-24 July 2010 Lausanne, Switzerland CECAM Workshop “Crystallization: from colloids to pharmaceuticals” Crystallization of Hard-Sphere Glasses 05-08 July 2010 Granada, Spain International Soft Matter Conference 2010 Laponite as a complex colloid: aggregation, gel and glass formation 31 May-04 June 2010 Dresden, Germany PARDIM10 Worskhop “Particulate Matter: Does Dimensionality Matter?” Crystallization of Hard-Sphere Glasses 30 August-5 September 2009 Rome, Italy 6th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems Multiple Glass transitions in Star Polymer Mixtures 13-18 July 2009 Lausanne, Switzerland CECAM Workshop ''Computer Simulation Approaches to Study Self-Assembly: From Patchy Nano-Colloids to Virus Capsids'' joint with CECAM Workshop ''New Trends in Simulating Colloids: from Models to Applications'' Self-assembly kinetics of gel-forming patchy particles: connecting irreversible to reversible aggregation (Soft Matter Award Lecture) 12-13 December 2007 San Sebastian, Spain Universal Aspects in Slow Dynamics Workshop (SOFTCOMP Network of Excellence Topical Workshop) Multiple Glass transitions in Star Polymer Mixtures 25-27 September 2007 Rueil-Malmaison, France Thermodynamics 2007 Equilibrium Routes to Colloidal Gelation (Plenary Lecture) 15-18 July 2007 Palermo, Sicily SOCOBIM: Soft, Complex, and Biological Matter Conference Multiple Glass transitions in Star Polymer Mixtures 26-28 June 2006, Lyon, France CECAM Workshop: Patchy Colloids, Proteins and Network-Forming Liquids Maximum-valency Models in colloidal systems 6-9 April 2006 Lugano, Switzerland Marie Curie Network Meeting on Dynamical Arrest Cluster phase in colloids and proteins from theory and simulations (Award Lecture) 7-13 Luglio 2005, Lille, France 5th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems Cluster Phases, Gels and Glasses in Colloidal Systems 28 Giugno - 1 Luglio 2004, Bangalore, India UNIFYING CONCEPTS IN GLASS PHYSICS III Gelation Routes in Colloidal Systems 18-21 Aprile 2004, Fai della Paganella, Italy XXIII Convegno Fisica teorica e struttura della materia Vetri e Gels in Sistemi Colloidali 17-20 Dicembre 2003, Messina, Italy Workshop on Structural Arrest Transitions in Colloidal Systems With Short-Range Attractions Towards an understanding of extremely dense/dilute arrested states for short-ranged attractive colloids: glass-glass transition and gel states 22-25 Settembre 2003, Trieste, Italy Dyproso XXIX, Dynamical Properties of Solids Symposium Glass transition of attractive colloidal systems