Daniele Montepietra is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biophysics of photosynthesis at the University of Verona. His research employs computational and machine-learning approaches to study photosynthetical and molecular systems and develop new applications.
He earned a Ph.D. in Physics and Nanosciences at the Università of Modena and Reggio Emilia by conducting a structural analysis of Heat Shock Protein B8. This human chaperone protein has extended intrinsically disordered regions, and its pathological mutation leads to neurodegenerative diseases.

During his M.Sc. degree in Physics at the University of Parma, he modeled plant Photosystem I as a complex network to investigate the role of chromophore structural organization in energy transfer efficiency. He continued to work on this topic in collaboration with the Network Unit at the University of Parma.