Paolo Nicolini, Ph.D.
![Paolo Nicolini Paolo Nicolini](https://webarchiv.lib.cas.cz:443/wayback/20240503185018im_/https://www.fzu.cz/sites/default/files/styles/640x640/public/2023-03/RV3_4657.jpg.jpg?itok=mD0bppJL)
I obtained an MSc in Chemistry in 2008 at the University of Padua (Italy) with a thesis on slow manifolds in chemical kinetics. In 2012 I got a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Florence (Italy) working on development and application of nonequilibrium simulation methods for free energy calculations. I then moved to the Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) for a one-year postdoc experience developing new classical force fields for water using the force matching approach. Since 2013 I am working in the Czech Republic, first as a postdoc (and then as an assistant professor) at the Czech Technical University in Prague, performing research in computational tribology. In 2022, I joined the Department of Condensed Matter Theory at FZU, focusing my research on the interactions between organic molecules and ionic surfaces.