Eleonora Diamanti was trained as medicinal chemist and did her Ph.D. with Prof. Piomelli (iit, Genova), working one year with Prof. Aggarwal and his team in Bristol on the total synthesis of a natural product. In 2016, she joined the Hirsch group as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Groningen and she is currently working at HIPS, focusing on the design and synthesis of anti-infective agents.