Giorgio Iaconetta is a confirmed university researcher and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Salerno. He obtained a classical high school diploma in 1980 at the “Bernardino Telesio” classical high school in Cosenza. He enrolled in the 1980-81 academic year at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Naples, "Federico II", and he graduated from the same faculty on 23 October 1986 with 110/110 honors, a special mention, and academic acclaim from the Commission. He obtained a qualification to practice the medical–surgical profession, obtaining a score of 86/90, in the second half of 1986 (November 1986) at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Reggio Calabria. Since 26 February 1987, he has been registered in the professional register of the Order of Doctors/Surgeons of the province of Cosenza. He obtained his specialization in neurosurgery on 25 October 1991 with 50/50 marks and honors at the School of Specialization in Neurosurgery of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the “Federico II” University of Naples. His research keywords include maxillofacial and oral surgery.
Alessandro Fiorindi, M.D., Ph.D., is a medical doctor at the Spedali Civili—University of Brescia. His skills and expertise include skull base surgery, endoscopic neurosurgery, pediatric neurosurgery, hydrocephalus, spine surgery, glioma, endoscopes, neurosurgical procedures, craniotomy, and neuro-oncology. His research keywords include neurosurgery.
Karl Schaller has been professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Geneva University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine since 2007. He received his pregraduate training at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and pursued his post-graduate career in academic neurosurgery in Duisburg and Bonn, Germany. His main surgical and research interests concern neurovascular surgery, the treatment of epilepsy, and the surgery of brain tumors. He receives funding for the development of intra-operative monitoring and imaging technology and for clinical neurovascular research. Currently, he is serving on the editorial or advisory boards of several neurosurgical and neurological journals, e.g., Acta Neurochirurgica, Neurochirurgie, Neurosurgical Review, Neurosurgery, World Neurosurgery, and others. He has a long history of commitment to the EANS—first as a trainee, then as faculty—and he chaired the individual membership committee from 2010 to 2014 and the training committee from 2015 to 2017. He is a co-founder of the SFITS (Swiss Foundation for Innovation and Training in Surgery), a dedicated institute for surgical technology and training.
Lucio De Maria is a neurosurgeon at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) in Switzerland. In 2018, he earned his Doctor of Medicine with the highest grade and a thesis scholarship in Catania, Italy. Later that year, he worked as a research fellow in the Department of Neurologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, US. In 2019, he became a clinical fellow for the Department of Neurologic Surgery at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, UK. In 2024, he completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Brescia, Italy. His main interests concern vascular surgery and interventional neuroradiology, neuro-oncology, and skull base surgery.
