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Professor Luca Gianaroli, ITALY

Dr. Luca Gianaroli is sa pecialist in Reproductive Medicine since the end of the Seventies. He is the Scientific Director of S.I.S.Me.R. (Italian Society for the Study of Reproductive Medicine) and he holds the position of Scientific Director of IIIRM SA in Lugano, Switzerland. He is also advisor of the Italian Istituto Reproduction. Superiore di Sanità for Medically Assisted Dr. Gianaroli international has always been an active member of several national and scientific societies in which he has covered and currently covers roles of primary importance. In 2009-2011, he served as Chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). In 2014 he was appointed as Fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 2017, he was one of the founders of the Fondazione PMA. Italia (PMA. Italia Foundation), of which he is currently the Vice-President. From 2016 to 2021 he served as coordinator of the Steering Committee of the ESHRE ART Centre Certification Program. At present, he is the Director of Global Educational Programs of the International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS). With reference to academic activities, throughout his professional career, Dr. Gianaroli collaborated with several universities in Italy (Università degli Studi di Teramo, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Università di Bologna) and abroad (Leuven University in Belgium, Monash University in Australia and Geneva University in Switzerland). He served as an Honorary Professor at the School of Biosciences of the University of Kent between 2014 and May 2022. In 2014 he obtained the Italian Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (National Scientific License) as Full Professor, which was renewed in 2020. Dr. Gianaroli is the author of more than 290 papers in international scientific journals and the publisher or co-publisher of 9 books. As of the date of this biosketch, his H-index is 80 (Google Scholar).