I was awarded a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Salerno (ITALY) in 2014. Throughout my PhD I've worked on synthesis, structure and properties of cyclopeptoids and cyclopeptides. During my last year I've contributed to a project about native chemical ligation at the IRB in Barcelona under the supervision of Dr. Juan Blanco. In May 2014 I joined the Jim Naismith group at the University of St. Andrews as a post-doc to work on novel chemoenzymatic approaches to patellamide analogues. Since August 2017 I am a research fellow at Harwell Research Complex (University of Oxford) in the Jim Naismith lab.