Giuseppe Lanza

Dr. Giuseppe Lanza, is Full Professor at the University of Catania (Italy). After graduation with honors in Medicine, he trained at the School of Neurology and got the international PhD at the same University. He further trained at the Department f Neuroscience and the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology of the Newcastle University (UK) as a Clinical Research Fellow. At the same Institution, in 2013 he was selected for a Scientific Fellowship promoted by the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS). From 2013, he works as Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Researcher at the Oasi Research Institute–IRCCS in Troina (Italy), which is a WHO Collaborating Center, and where he currently holds the position of Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology Research Unit. More recently, he obtained the Master of Science in Clinical Research and the international “Elio Lugaresi award for Education” by the World Sleep Society for his research in Sleep Medicine. To date, he published 178 scientific papers and the Scopus h-index is 43, along with ~4,000 citations. The primary research interest includes the translational research in Clinical Neurophysiology, mainly based on the application of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques in sleep medicine and its disorders, in chronic cerebrovascular disease, in cognitive impairment and dementia, and in neuropsychiatric manifestations of rare disorders.