Dr. Ricciardi is a consultant thoracic surgeon and PhD student at the IRCCS University Hospital of Bologna, Italy. She finished her residency program at the University of Pisa in December 2019, and then she worked as a fellow in the Robotic Multidisciplinary Centre at the University Hospital of Pisa, one of the most important centres in Europe, and spent three months at Toronto General Hospital to improve her skills in lung transplants and general thoracic surgery. She is an active researcher in thoracic surgery with a particular interest in NSCLC, minimally invasive surgery, the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma, thymic malignancies, pneumothorax, and lymph nodal upstaging. She has attended many conferences, both as a speaker and a moderator/panelist. Thanks to her study on the prognostic impact of N2 involvement in lung cancer, she was a Young Investigator Award recipient at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in 2016 and 2017. Furthermore, her study on the prognostic role of the resection margin on long-term outcomes after lung metastasectomy was commended in October 2020, with the Young Investigator Award given during the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). She is an active member of international societies, including IASLC, EACTS, ERS, ESTS, and the Italian Society of Thoracic Surgery and Endoscopy.