Lisa Piazza is a third-year PhD student in Science of Drugs and Bioactive Substances at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, specializing in computational approaches for drug discovery. Her research focuses on developing and applying machine learning and deep learning models to predict molecular activity and guide de novo molecular generation. Beyond model development, she works on providing practical tools that support regulatory decisions and make computational approaches easily accessible to the broader scientific community. Driven by the vision of merging computational innovation with medicinal chemistry, she pursues research aimed at accelerating the discovery of novel therapeutic candidates.