Diego Tesauro obtained his masters degree in chemistry at the University of Napoli Federico II with the maximum of points in 1991. He completed his PhD studies in chemistry in 1994, defending a thesis on reactivity of d8 ions coordination complexes. He spent six months as scientific visitor in the Roche Company in Basel (CH) and three years as postdoctoral researcher in the department of chemistry in Naples. In 1999, he was appointed assistant professor in Chemistry by the Science Faculty of the University of Napoli “Federico II” and in 2018 associate professor in Inorganic Chemistry by the Department of Pharmacy of the same university.