Sergio Rampino was born in Mesagne (Apulia, Italy) in 1984. He graduated with honors in Chemistry (2007) and Italian Language and Literature (2012) at the University of Perugia, where he also obtained his PhD in Chemistry (2011). After a postdoctoral experience in several Italian and European universities and research centres, from 2017 to 2022 he was appointed fixed-term assistant professor in physical chemistry at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Since 2023 he is a tenure-track assistant professor in the same discipline at the University of Padua. His research interests range from the quantum dynamics of astrochemical reactions to relativistic density-functional theory, the analysis of chemical bonding, the computational development of stochastic models for macromolecules in solution, and the integration of virtual-reality technology and artificial intelligence in chemistry. He is the author of an introductory textbook to theoretical and computational chemistry, Chemistry at the Frontier with Physics and Computer Science: Theory and Computation (Elsevier, 2022).