Trained Medicinal Chemist, I have been exposed mainly to Pharma R&D in SMEs and big organizations (Eli Lilly and Takeda). Since 2001 active in Germany, I am now contributing to Fraunhofer IME Institute where I conduct screening results analysis, hit expansion and lead optimization work, comprising SBDD and modelling. On the other side, data science application have entered more and more in my focus: so, I have been applying ML and AI methodologies to real and virtual clinical cohorts and methylomes, especially within age and disease prediction efforts. Lately active in data management project like IMI FAIRplus, IMI Combine, IMI GNA NOW, EOSC-DRIVE and EOSC-Life, BMBF-ConSCIENCE, BMBF-Bulita. Technical Manager of the H2020-Exscalate4CoV project.