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Maria graduated in Physics in 1991 from the University of Bologna with a thesis in Cosmology on the structure and large-scale motions of the Universe. In 1992 she started working in the parallel computing group of the newly founded CRS4 on the parallelisation of molecular dynamics codes. In April 1994, she was awarded a Marie-Curie FP6 fellowship at the CNRS Laboratoire des Physique des Milieux Ionise (LPMI), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseu, France. In 1998, she obtained her PhD in Plasma Physics at the Ecole Doctorale de Troisime Cycle de l’Ecole Polytechnique with a thesis on the theoretical and computational analysis of the motion of charged particles in electromagnetic fields. Since May 1999, she has been an expert researcher in the Fuel Cells area of CRS4, working on molecular dynamics simulations of proton-conducting membranes and the development of a finite volume code for electrochemical systems.In May 2006, she moved to the Bioinformatics group at CRS4, where she worked on protein structure and dynamics. In the same year, she obtained a master’s degree in Bionformatics with a thesis on large-scale protein-protein docking. Since the beginning of 2010, she has been a member of the AGCT group at CRS4, where she worked on data analysis for case-control studies on genetic diseases. She currently works as a Senior Researcher in the Simulation&Modelling group at CRS4. Maria is interested in studying the structure and dynamics of proteins and new materials for real cases and through the development of new methodologies and force fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4072,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[123],"class_list":["post-9971","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-data-intensive-computing-en"],"acf":{"name":"Maria","surname":"Valentini","email":"maria@crs4.it","phone":"+39 070 9250438","user_uuid":"e3c2c390-99fc-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","personal_page":"","google_scholar_id":"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=uPUBUeUAAAAJ","position":"Researcher","microsoft_academic_id":"","project_coordinator":[{"ID":19588,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:20:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:20:42","post_content":"Summer school \"Molecular Modeling: Real Applications and New Approaches\", 29th July- 2nd August 2019 - Pula, Sardinia - Italy.\nComputational molecular modeling (CMM) is world\/wide recognized as an important area of science, with applications to a wide spectrum of disciplines, including biomedicine, nutraceuticals, functional foods, physics, chemistry and biochemistry, materials science, nanosciences, energy and environmental sciences.\nCMM techniques have demonstrated in many years to be successful, leading to the development of computational models and to fast and accurate algorithms of increasing complexity. These techniques are currently used by many researchers all over the world, both in the academic and industrial context, contributing to create innovative products and understanding complex mechanisms, overall contributing to improve life quality and impacting traditional animal tests.\nThe School is targeted at students, graduate students, early-stage researchers, researchers, technologists and professionals in sectors as biomedicine, nutraceuticals, functional foods, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, nanosciences, energy and environmental sciences. 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The project CRF-99 faces the problem of describing effectively the great heterogeneity of structural features, materials, chemo-physical properties of a fuel cell\u2019s parts with the aim of\u00a0 predicting and optimizing the performance curve.\u00a0 For this has been developed the finite volume code \u201cModellazione Integrata di Celle a combustibile (MIC) \u201c\u00a0 for the numerical simulation of direct hydrogen (DHFC) and direct methanol (DMFC) fuel cells . 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