Dario Di Pietro
Dario Di Pietro is a second-year Master's student in Chemistry at KU Leuven. After obtaining his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 2025, he began his Master's studies at KU Leuven. During his first Master's year, he completed an internship at Heidelberg University in the Hashmi Group, where he worked on the enantioselective activation of prochiral bromoalkenes using dimeric gold catalysis.
Dario is currently conducting his Master's thesis in the Verwilst Lab, where he focuses on the synthesis of small-molecule inhibitors targeting the CCR5 receptor.
Co-supervisor at KU Leuven: Prof. Wim Dehaen.