R.Di Micco is a breast surgeon and a researcher who dedicated her career to breast cancer treatment. She has completed a PhD project on PET/MRI for staging the axilla at the Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery of University of Naples Federico II. She obtained a European Master's Degree in Oncological, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery with the University of Barcelona, and worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, where she carried out a project on therapeutic mammoplasty. She is actively involved in international trials and member of the European Breast Cancer Research Association of Surgical Trialists (EUBREAST). She has authored over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals.