Luca Capaldo was born in Milan, Italy. He obtained his M.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Pavia. After a visiting period in the Yoon Group at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2019 from the same university. His research interests include organic synthesis, photoredox catalysis and photocatalyzed Hydrogen Atom Transfer. After a 2-years postdoctoral fellowship in Pavia, Luca joined the Flow Chemistry Group at the UvA, where he is developing novel synthetic methodologies based on photocatalyzed HAT in flow.