Dr. Marco D’Alì obtained his Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (cum laude) in 2022 at the University of Messina. His experimental thesis, entitled “Docking-based virtual screening for the identification of GLS1 inhibitors”, focused on the identification of GLS1 inhibitors as potential anticancer agents through molecular modeling and virtual screening approaches. From March 2023 to February 2024, he was awarded a postgraduate research fellowship at the University of Messina, where he worked on “Surface characterization of materials subjected to corrosion in simulated environments”. His research involved the surface characterization of carbon steel plates simulating the bottom of atmospheric storage tanks (ASTs) exposed to corrosive conditions, using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). He is currently a PhD student in Chemical Sciences at the University of Messina. His research focuses on the identification and optimization of pharmaceutically relevant molecules using computational methods.