Title, education/discipline: Professor, Medical Doctor, Orthopaedics. Specific areas of expertise: innovative and emerging methodologies in the fields of implant and reconstructive surgery of the knee and hip, biomechanics, regenerative medicine for musculoskeletal tissues, and tissue engineering and tissue repair. Position and career in the institution: associate professor of orthopaedics. From 2004/5, he has taught orthopaedics and traumatology at the School of Medicine of the University of Milan. Former career: 1988–1991, Chief of Knee Surgery Unit at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. In 1991, he became a university researcher. 1996–2000, chief of the Orthopaedics Division at the San Raffaele Hospital in Rome and head of section of the Orthopaedic Clinic of Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute in Milan. 2004–2010, director of the Orthopaedic Clinic of the University of Milan, based at the Humanitas Clinical Institute of Milan. Most outstanding achievements: more than 200 scientific impacted publications, with an H-index of 28.