Valeria Pingue (ORCID: 0000-0001-9376-4699, Scopus ID: 56436633600) achieved her Bachelor's degree in medicine from the University of Pavia, Italy. She then went on to study clinical training specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation from 2003 to 2006, followed by clinical training specializing in neurology from 2011 to 2016 at the University of Pavia. She has worked as a senior assistant neurologist since May 2009 at the Neurorehabilitation and Spinal Unit, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Scientific Institute of Pavia, Italy, and since October 2020 at the “Cultore della Materia nel settore scientifico disciplinare Medicina fisica e riabilitativa", University of Pavia, Italy. Her research interests lie in disorders of consciousness, the vegetative state, traumatic brain injury, hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, vascular brain injury, epilepsy and neurorehabilitation. Since September 2018 she has been a board member of the “Società Italiana di Riabilitazione Neurologica” (SIRN).