Luca Luzzi

Luca Luzzi was born in 1972 and he graduated from the Medical School of  University of Siena in 1998. He obtained the post-graduate degree in Thoracic Surgery in 2002. He was a transplant registrar at Cardio-Thoracic Transplant Centre of New Castle upon Tyne in 2001. In 2006 he achieved the PhD in Surgical Science and Transplant at the Università Statale di Milano with a study on the role of T regulatory cells in lung transplant tolerance and chronic rejection. Since 2006 he is working as a thoracic surgeon at the Siena University Hospital and he achieved specific competence as master in minimally invasive thoracic surgery and robotic thoracic surgery performing hundreds of pulmonary and mediastinal surgical procedures. He is currently an Associate Professor in Thoracic Surgery Department at the University of Siena and Director of the Lung Transplant Centre at the Siena University Hospital. Since 2018 he is an Adjunct Professor at the Temple University of Philadelphia, USA, for his experience in thoracic malignancies. He is the first author or co-author of 118 international publications in the field of thoracic oncology and lung transplantation with a H-index of 21.