Ali Hassanali

Permanent Scientific Staff
Senior Research Scientist
Ali Hassanali
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
+39 040 2240 175
ahassana@ictp.it
+39 040 2240 175
ahassana@ictp.it
LB-247
https://sites.google.com/view/alihassanaliresearchgroup/
0000-0002-3208-1488

Ali Hassanali

I obtained my PhD in 2010 at The Ohio State University working on the development and application of computational models to study water near interfaces. After a 3 year Postdoc with Prof. Michele Parrinello, I moved to the CMSP group at the ICTP where I began my independent career.

My research is at the boundary between physics, chemistry and biology. I am interested in the physical chemistry of liquids with a special focus on aqueous systems. We use advanced computational techniques including both classical and first principles electronic structure approaches to investigate the structural, dynamical and electronic properties of organic matter immersed in water. We collaborate with leading experimental groups in the field.

Personal Information:

Name:                    Hassanali, Ali

Researcher IDs:     Google Scholar

Date of Birth:          December 29, 1979

Nationality:             Tanzanian

Website:                 http://users.ictp.it/~ahassana/index.html

 

Education:

2004 – 2010                 PhD in Biophysics at The Ohio-State University, Columbus Ohio, USA. PhD awarded in August 2010 on “Water at molecular interfaces: structure and dynamics near biomolecules and amorphous silica”

2002 – 2004                 M.S. in Mathematics at Purdue University, West-Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

2002 – 2004                 BSc. in Mathematics and Computer Science at Purdue University, West-Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Current Position:

2019 – present             Tenured Research Scientist at The International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

Previous Positions:

2015 – 2018                 Tenure-track Junior Research Scientist at The International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

2013 – 2015                 Senior-Postdoctoral Fellow at The International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

2010 – 2013                 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ETH-Z and University of Lugano, Switzerland.

Fellowships and Awards:

2010 – 2013                 Postdoctoral Fellowship with Prof. Michele Parrinello at ETH Lugano.

2009 – 2010                 Presidential Fellowship from Graduate Program at Ohio State University

2009                              Outstanding Research Award in Biophysics Graduate Program

 

Publications

Journal article
2022
Observation of Strong Synergy in the Interfacial Water Response of Binary Ionic and Nonionic Surfactant Mixtures
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2022)
Sanghamitra Sengupta | Rahul Gera | Colin Egan | Uriel N. Morzan | Jan Versluis | Ali Hassanali | Huib J. Bakker
Journal article
2022
The behavior of methane–water mixtures under elevated pressures from simulations using many-body potentials
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2022)
Victor Naden Robinson | Raja Ghosh | Colin K. Egan | Marc Riera | Christopher Knight | Francesco Paesani | Ali Hassanali
Journal article
2022
High-Dimensional Fluctuations in Liquid Water: Combining Chemical Intuition with Unsupervised Learning
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2022)
Adu Offei-Danso | Ali Hassanali | Alex Rodriguez
Journal article
2022
Learning the Hydrophobic, Hydrophilic, and Aromatic Character of Amino Acids from Thermal Relaxation and Interfacial Thermal Conductance
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2022)
Heydar Hamzi | Ali Rajabpour | Édgar Roldán | Ali Hassanali
Journal article
2022
Model Folded Hydrophobic Polymers Reside in Highly Branched Voids
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2022)
Khatereh Azizi | Alessandro Laio | Ali Hassanali
Journal article
2022
Non-Aromatic Fluorescence in Biological Matter: The Exception or the Rule?
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2022)
Uriel Nicolas Morzan | Gonzalo Díaz Mirón | Luca Grisanti | Mariano González Lebrero | Kaminski Schierle | Ali Hassanali
Journal article
2022
Charge Gradients around Dendritic Voids Cause Nanoscale Inhomogeneities in Liquid Water
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2022)
Tereza Schönfeldová | Nathan Dupertuis | Yixing Chen | Narjes Ansari | Emiliano Poli | David M. Wilkins | Ali Hassanali | Sylvie Roke
Journal article
2022
Intracellular Aβ42 Aggregation Leads to Cellular Thermogenesis
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022)
Chyi Wei Chung | Amberley D. Stephens | Tasuku Konno | Edward Ward | Edward Avezov | Clemens F. Kaminski | Ali A. Hassanali | Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle
Journal article
2022
How to determine solubility in binary mixtures from neutron scattering data: The case of methane and water
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2022)
Ciprian G. Pruteanu | Victor Naden Robinson | Ali Hassanali | Sandro Scandolo | John S. Loveday | Graeme J. Ackland
Journal article
2021
On-off transition and ultrafast decay of amino acid luminescence driven by modulation of supramolecular packing.
iScience (2021)
Arnon ZA | Kreiser T | Yakimov B | Brown N | Aizen R | Shaham-Niv S | Makam P | Qaisrani MN | Poli E | Ruggiero A | Slutsky I | Hassanali A | Shirshin E | Levy D | Gazit E
Journal article
2021
Short hydrogen bonds enhance nonaromatic protein-related fluorescence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2021)
Stephens AD | Qaisrani MN | Ruggiero MT | Díaz Mirón G | Morzan UN | González Lebrero MC | Jones STE | Poli E | Bond AD | Woodhams PJ | Kleist EM | Grisanti L | Kaminski Schierle GS
Journal article
2021
Structure and dynamics of nanoconfined water and aqueous solutions.
The European physical journal. E, Soft matter (2021)
Corti HR | Appignanesi GA | Barbosa MC | Bordin JR | Calero C | Camisasca G | Elola MD | Franzese G | Gallo P | Hassanali A | Huang K | Laria D | Menéndez CA | Szleifer I
Journal article
2021
Phospholipids dock SARS-CoV-2 spike protein via hydrophobic interactions: a minimal in-silico study of lecithin nasal spray therapy.
The European physical journal. E, Soft matter (2021)
Qaisrani MN | Belousov R | Rehman JU | Goliaei EM | Girotto I | Franklin-Mergarejo R | Güell O | Hassanali A | Roldán É
Journal article
2021
Emergence of Electric Fields at the Water-C12E6 Surfactant Interface.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2021)
Gera R | Bakker HJ | Franklin-Mergarejo R | Morzan UN | Falciani G | Bergamasco L | Versluis J | Sen I | Dante S | Chiavazzo E | Hassanali AA
Journal article
2021
Charge transfer across C–H⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bonds stabilizes oil droplets in water
Science (2021)
Saranya Pullanchery | Sergey Kulik | Benjamin Rehl | Ali Hassanali | Sylvie Roke
Journal article
2021
Coupled Local-Mode Approach for the Calculation of Vibrational Spectra: Application to Protonated Water Clusters
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2021)
Matthew D. Hanson | Janel A. Readnour | Ali A. Hassanali | Steven A. Corcelli
Journal article
2020
Simulation of Liquids with the Tight-Binding Density-Functional Approach and Improved Atomic Charges.
The journal of physical chemistry. B (2020)
Cuny J | Cerda Calatayud J | Ansari N | Hassanali AA | Rapacioli M | Simon A
Journal article
2020
Squeezing Oil into Water under Pressure: Inverting the Hydrophobic Effect.
The journal of physical chemistry letters (2020)
Pruteanu CG | Naden Robinson V | Ansari N | Hassanali A | Scandolo S | Loveday JS
Journal article
2020
Insights into the Emerging Networks of Voids in Simulated Supercooled Water.
The journal of physical chemistry. B (2020)
Ansari N | Onat B | Sosso GC | Hassanali A
Journal article
2020
Understanding Förster Energy Transfer through the Lens of Molecular Dynamics.
Journal of chemical theory and computation (2020)
Anzola M | Sissa C | Painelli A | Hassanali AA | Grisanti L
Journal article
2020
Charge transfer as a ubiquitous mechanism in determining the negative charge at hydrophobic interfaces.
Nature communications (2020)
Poli E | Jong KH | Hassanali A
Journal article
2020
First-passage fingerprints of water diffusion near glutamine surfaces.
Soft matter (2020)
Belousov R | Qaisrani MN | Hassanali A | Roldán É
Journal article
2020
Toward Understanding Optical Properties of Amyloids: A Reaction Path and Nonadiabatic Dynamics Study.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2020)
Grisanti L | Sapunar M | Hassanali A | Došlić N
Journal article
2019
Spontaneously Forming Dendritic Voids in Liquid Water Can Host Small Polymers.
The journal of physical chemistry letters (2019)
Ansari N | Laio A | Hassanali A
Journal article
2019
Structural and dynamical heterogeneities at glutamine-water interfaces.
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (2019)
Qaisrani MN | Grisanti L | Gebauer R | Hassanali A
Journal article
2019
Thermal transport at a nanoparticle-water interface: A molecular dynamics and continuum modeling study.
The Journal of chemical physics (2019)
Rajabpour A | Seif R | Arabha S | Heyhat MM | Merabia S | Hassanali A
Journal article
2019
A computational study on the role of water and conformational fluctuations in Hsp90 in response to inhibitors.
Journal of molecular graphics & modelling (2019)
Shadrack DM | Swai HS | Hassanali A
Journal article
2019
Low energy optical excitations as an indicator of structural changes initiated at the termini of amyloid proteins
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2019)
Kwang Hyok Jong | Yavar T. Azar | Luca Grisanti | Amberley D. Stephens | Saul T. E. Jones | Dan Credgington | Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle | Ali Hassanali
Journal article
2018
Hierarchical lattice models of hydrogen-bond networks in water.
Physical review. E (2018)
Dandekar R | Hassanali AA
Journal article
2018
Quantum mechanical effects in zwitterionic amino acids: The case of proline, hydroxyproline, and alanine in water.
The Journal of chemical physics (2018)
Ulman K | Busch S | Hassanali AA

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