Alfredo Conti is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy, and a Visiting Professor at the Charité University Hospital of Berlin. He is also a lecturer of Neuroscience in the PhD program in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Messina, Italy. He completed a PhD in Neuro-Oncology at the University of Messina in 2007. He served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Messina from 2006 to 2015 and as an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery from 2016 to 2019. He worked as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Charité Faculty of Medicine in 2018. He received a full professorship habilitation in 2018. For the past 15 years, he has continuously performed surgical activity as a specialist registrar/consultant with over 2000 surgical procedures independently performed. He served as a 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. He received some of the field's major national and international awards, including the “Tagliapietra” National Award, “B. Guidetti” International Award, EANS Aesculap Prize, Best Poster ESSFN, “frameless stereotactic radiosurgery publication Competition”, and EANS Research Fund.