Alfredo Conti

Alfredo Conti is associate professor of Neurosurgery at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy, and Visiting Professor at Charité University Hospital of Berlin. He is also lecturer of Neuroscience in the PhD program in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Messina, Italy. He was born in Messina on September 18, 1973. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Messina in July 1997 (cum laude) and completed the residency in neurosurgery in 2002. In 2003, he received a scholarship from the Foundation Carrozza-Pollicino-S. Leonardo/University of Messina. He completed a PhD in Neuro-Oncology at the University of Messina in 2007. Between 2006-2015 he served as Assistant Professor at the University of Messina. He was Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at this same Institution between 2016-2019. He worked as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Charité Faculty of Medicine, Berlin, Germany in 2018 and he has currently a position at that Institution as Visiting Professor. He received a full professorship habilitation in 2018. In 2004 he visited the Southwestern University in Dallas, the University of Florida and the University of Miami to improve his skills in the field of stereotactic radiosurgery. In 2007 he carried out the training for the use of CyberKnife radiosurgery at Sunnyvale (Ca), and later dedicated himself to the use of this equipment contributing to its development and to its implementation at the University Hospital "G. Martino " of Messina, Italy. In the last 15 years has continuatively performed surgical activity as specialist registrar/consultant with over 1500 surgical procedures independently performed. Throughout his career he developed an intense scientific activity being author of more than 150 international publications in full and more than 170 contributions in the form of abstracts (Scopus H-index 26; Scholar H-index 32; IF >350). He served as reviewer for more than 30 scientific journals, including the most important in the field of neuroscience and is a member of the editorial board of 5 of them. Reviewer for National Grants of 4 different countries (Span, China, Poland, Italy). He has lectured as invited speaker in more than 50 international conferences, including the the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), the British Society of Neurosurgery (SBNS), the Neurosurgical Society of Southeast Europe (SEENS), the German Association of Neurosurgery (DGNC), the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the European Society of radiosurgery. He received some of the major national and international awards in its field: the "Tagliapietra" National Award (awarded by the Italian Society of Neurosurgery), the "B. Guidetti” International Award (awarded by the Italian Society of Neurosurgery), EANS Aesculap Prize (awarded by the European Society of Neurosurgery); Best Poster ESSFN (conferred by the European Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery); the “frameless stereotactic radiosurgery publication competition” (awarded by Cureus-Accuray Inc.); EANS Research Fund (awarded by the European Society of Neurosurgery). He was co-investigator in 7 National Funding Programs funded with overall 3 million euros and PI in one National Program funded 250.000 euros.