Federico Tacconi obtained his specialty training in thoracic surgery in 2006. Subsequently, he was appointed as an attending surgeon and assistant professor in thoracic surgery at the Tor Vergata University Hospital of Rome, Italy. In 2012, he obtained the an associate professor position, awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals, with a Scopus H-index of 15. His main fields of interest are minimally invasive techniques in thoracic oncology, systemic inflammation in thoracic surgery, and quality improvement in thoracic surgery.