Riccardo Guareschi, PhD

Riccardo Guareschi is a theoretical and computational chemist in the Small Molecule Drug Discovery division at Charles River with deep experience in structure- and ligand-based drug design, protein modelling, quantum chemistry, and computational biophysics.
As Associate Research Leader in computer-aided drug design (CADD), Riccardo supports several projects in the early discovery phase and helps the development of new methods to study drug-target interactions.

Prior to working at Charles River, Riccardo worked as Computational Chemist at the University of Dundee, where he focused on the development of accurate quantum mechanical approaches to analyse the ligand/target mode of binding and predict ligand affinities. At the same time, Riccardo deployed computational support across different projects in the field of drug design against rare/neglected/tropical diseases. 

Riccardo has been employed as postdoc researcher in the group of computational biomedicine lead by Prof. Paolo Carloni at the Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Riccardo has earned his Ph.D. in quantum chemistry from the University of Twente working with Prof. Claudia Filippi on the study of the excited-state properties of molecular systems of variable complexity. Riccardo is co-author of 10 scientific papers.