Marco ballarotto

Marco joined the ICR in 2023 as a Postdoctoral Training Fellow after having completed his PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of Perugia, where he worked on developing Diels-Alder-based protocols for the de novo synthesis of functionalised aromatic compounds. He is currently providing computational support for active drug discovery projects, ranging from Hit ID to Lead Optimisation stages, and implementing pipelines for AI-assisted de novo molecular design.