News
	August 2009: Paper in PNAS July 2009: Presentation of Soft Matter Award by Prof. C.Likos May 2009: Soft Matter Award 2009 Read our contribution in the Emerging Investigators issue
	Sep 2008: Paper in Nature Materials on Asymmetric Glasses in Soft Mixtures Highlight in Materials Today, Vol. 11, N. 12 (2008); Press (in Italian) : dal Corriere della Sera; Il futuro della cosmetica? I colloidi; Diventare piu' belli: da oggi ci pensa il Fisico
	May 2008: Paper in Nature on Colloidal Gelation Press (in Italian) : Soffice la Materia Fatale l'Attrazione; Con Colloidi e Fotoni l'Infm fa il bis su Nature; Intervista
	Research
	Thermodynamics and dynamics of colloidal systems, star polymers, micelles, globular proteins, glass-forming liquids; Particular focus on dynamical arrest in colloidal systems; difference between gels and glasses, and identification of several gelation or glassification mechanisms; Models for ideal gels; patchy or directional interactions; charged systems or systems with competing interactions. Numerical simulations: Molecular and brownian dynamics, other techniques; Integral equations and phase diagrams Mode coupling theory and the glass transition
	Recent Activities: CECAM Workshop 2006
	Patchy Colloids, Proteins and Network Forming Liquids: Analogies and new insights from computer simulations