Angela Altomare, primo ricercatore dell’Istituto di cristallografia di Bari (Cnr-Ic), è stata eletta Presidente dell’Associazione Italiana di Cristallografia (AIC) per il triennio 2021-2023.
Questa nomina attesta la grande reputazione scientifica raggiunta nel campo delle metodologie cristallografiche da Angela e rappresenta un segnale di notevole apprezzamento e visibilità scientifica delle attività di ricerca del Cnr e dell’Istituto nella cristallografia a livello nazionale ed internazionale.
ANGELA ALTOMARE’S SHORT BIO
Angela Altomare graduated in Physics cum laude at the University of Bari, in Italy. Since 1988, she has worked as a Researcher at the Institute of Crystallography of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Bari, initially collaborating with Prof. Carmelo Giacovazzo. As senior researcher, she is the scientific coordinator a of team mainly focused on the development of innovative crystallographic methodologies for structural solution from single crystal and powder diffraction data, the development of new computational algorithms and their implementation in crystallographic software, the structural characterization by single-crystal and microcrystalline powder diffraction data, as well as the qualitative and quantitative analysis of multiphase mixture by powder diffraction. In 2019 Angela was the recipient of the ‘Mario Mammi’ Award of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) and in 1999 the recipient of the AIC Prize for the activity and the original and innovative research results in the field of crystallographic methodologies, both theoretical and applicative, and for the work on the association activities. She is a member of the Commission for the participation of CNR of Italy to the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). She is Main Editor of the IUCr journal Acta Crystallographica Section A. Angela Altomare is widely recognized throughout the national and international scientific community for her work and research in the Crystallography field, also by co-authoring 12 crystallographic computing programs worldwide used with more than 26.000 citations.
