Luca Menestrina is a PhD student in Data Science and Computation at the University of Bologna.
In 2019, he received a Masters Degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies from the same university (110/110 with honours).
For his Msc thesis, he spent 6 months at Yale University under Professor W.L. Jorgensen. During this period, he deepened his knowledge on the employment of free energy perturbation calculations in the development of new drugs.
Additionally, he was selected to be a student of the Collegio Superiore, the school of excellence of the Alma Mater Studiorum, which offers advanced and interdisciplinary education.