Walid Shahrour earned his BSc in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Damascus University, Syria, in 2022. For his bachelor's thesis, supervised by Prof. Iyad Allous, he conducted in-silico studies to identify natural products as potential inhibitors of Thioredoxin Glutathione Reductase in Echinococcus granulosus. Since October 2023, Walid has been pursuing his PhD under the co-supervision of Prof. Anna Hirsch and Prof. Andrea Volkamer (Department of Data-Driven Drug Design), with a research focus on computer-aided drug design of novel Elastase B (LasB) inhibitors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa