Carlo Ferrarese is currently working as a Professor of Neurology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. From 2012 to 2016, he was an Elected Member of the Academic Senate and is now Member of the Board, University of Milano-Bicocca. He is Director of the Department of Neurology at the Scientific Institute San Gerardo, in Monza. He has been involved in basic neurochemical and neuropharmacological research at the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Milan, and at the NIH and Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. As a Visiting Scientist at NINDS (NIH, Bethesda), he performed studies on in vivo analysis of NMDA glutamate receptors using in vivo binding in rodents and PET in monkeys. From 1987 he was the Chief of the Laboratory of Neurobiology at the Department of Neurology of the University of Milan where he led neurobiological research applied to neurodegenerative, neuroimmunologic, epileptic, and cerebrovascular disorders. His scientific output includes 422 publications, corresponding to 10,912 citations (h-index 55) (Scopus, 5 December 2023).