Michelangelo Mancuso currently works at the Neurological Institute, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. He is also the physician expert of the Laboratory of CSF and molecular analysis, and is the head of the Centre of Neurogenetics and expertise for mitochondrial diseases and rare diseases at the same institute. His scientific and research activity has mainly been conducted in the fields of mitochondria, neurogenetics (including neuromuscular diseases), neurodegenerative diseases, and stroke. He graduated in Medicine in 1996, specialized at the University of Pisa in 2000, and completed his training with specialization courses at Columbia University in New York. He also obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Pisa in 2004. He has 313 publications with 17,608 citations and an h-index of 53 (Scopus, 3 November 2023).