Dr. Roberto Lucchini is a professor of occupational and environmental health sciences at the School of Public Health & Social Work at Florida International University. He received his medical degree from the University of Brescia, Italy, in 1987 and the Board Certification in Occupational Medicine from the University of Parma, Italy in 1991. From 1992 to 2011 he served in the Occupational Health Clinic of the Spedali Civili of Brescia, Italy. From January 2012 to June 2020, he was the director of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. Dr. Lucchini was also the director of the World Trade Center Data Center at Mount Sinai and the director of the NIOSH funded Education and Research Center for the States of New York and New Jersey. As of 2024, Dr. Lucchini holds also Professorship at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Dr. Lucchini’s research is focused on the health effects of neurotoxic chemicals and the biological mechanisms by which metals, pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, particulate matter and other toxic chemicals can cause injury in the human nervous system, from neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration. Recent development are focused on multiomic integration with exposomic data, leveraging existing cohorts of adolescents, workers, elderly and neurological patients that he has implemented in Italy and the WTC cohort of 9/11 responders and survivors who relocated in Florida.
