Hello people !

I’m an assistant professor at the school of applied biosciences at the Kyungpook National University (KNU) in south-Korea. I am a biochemist and a structural biologist. My interests are at the interface between biochemistry, pharmacology, structural biology and computational biology. For my research, I use a wide range of techniques: molecular biology, biochemistry, protein chemistry, structure determination by X-ray crystallography, molecular modeling of proteins, docking, virtual ligand screening, biophysics and enzymology. Methods development concerns news tools in bioinformatics and molecular modeling of proteins for my research needs. Check out my lab website: http://webbuild.knu.ac.kr/~diluccio/

When I’m not working, I enjoy flying airplanes at the local airport and, most of all, riding my bicycles over and over. Also, I almost made it into space (for real)….In 2008, I have been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to be part of the astronaut selection program for the ’09 class of astronauts. Unfortunately I didn’t make it (tough selection). My trip to space is just postponed…