Steven Beutick grew up in Amsterdam and is now a PhD student working on a joint doctoral program in Molecular Sciences at Università degli Studi di Padova and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2021 he obtained his MSc in molecular sciences from a joint degree between the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a thesis titled: Understanding the Effect of Solvent Molecules and Dynamics on SN2 reactions using Activation Strain Model and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. Now he started a PhD program under the supervision of prof. dr. Laura Orian and prof. dr. Bickelhaupt, which focusses on exploiting the computational approaches to pinpoint the factors behind the reactivity and selectivity of various fundamental reactions in the context of protein functionalization and bioorthogonal chemistry.