Thesis defended on September the 5th, 2012, with favorable referee's report of Professors Alberto Gandolfi, Pierre Magal and Luigi Preziosi.
You can find my manuscript here.

Actual Position

Ph.D. Student at:
University of Rome Sapienza Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome-Italie
and
University of Paris VI UPMC 4, Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 5 -France

Teaching Experience

09/2008-01/2009: Teaching assistant in analysis I at the Department of Engineering, Sapienza University, Rome.

09/2009-01/2010: Teaching assistant in analysis I at the Department of Engineering, Sapienza University, Rome.

10/2011-12-2011: Teaching assistant in arithmetic (LM220) at UPMC, Paris.

Research

Thesis title: Modeling nucleocytoplasmic transport with application to the intracellular dynamics of the tumor suppressor protein p53.

Scientific supervisors: Roberto Natalini, Senior Scientist at IAC-CNR, c/o Università di Tor Vergata.
Jean Clairambault, Senior Scientist at INRIA Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau.

Collaboration contract at CILEA on the MIUR-FIRB LITBIO with the ITB –CNR lab, Milan. On modelling cytoplasmic transport enhanced by microtubules activity
Scientific direction: Prof. Luciano Milanesi.

Oral Presentations

June 2012, SIMAI biannual congress, Torino, Italy.

December 2011, Young Researcher Workshop on Theoretical Approaches and Related Mathematical Methods in Biology and Medicine, L'Aquila-Italy.

May 2011, Spatial 2011, Systems Dynamics of Intracellular Communication, Engelberg-Switzerland. Poster presentation

April 2011, Mathematics and Biology: Young Investigators International Workshop, University of Rouen, France.

January 2011, Bioinformatics 2011, Rome-Italy.

May 2010, The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Dresden-Germany. Poster presentation

November 2009, SysBioHealth Symposium, Milan-Italy. Poster presentation

Publications

A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR THE ENHANCED CYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT – How to Get (Faster) to the Nucleus. L. Dimitrio, R. Natalini, L. Milanesi. BIOINFORMATICS 2011 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, Rome, Italy, 26-29 January, 2011 2011

A spatial physiological model for p53 intracellular dynamics. L. Dimitrio, J. Clairambault, R. Natalini. Accepted at the Journal of Theoretical Biology