Luca Marciani graduated in Physics at the University of Genoa in Italy. He then worked in Milan and London before joining the University of Nottingham. He was awarded his PhD in Physics at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, where he worked on a series of multi-disciplinary research contracts. Thanks to a Wellcome Trust VIP Fellowship and an RCUK Academic Fellowship, he then moved to the School of Medicine, where he is a Professor in Gastrointestinal Imaging at the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre (NDDC) within the Translational Medical Sciences academic unit. He serves as Deputy Director (Research) of Translational Medical Sciences, Honours Year Co-Lead for Translational Medical Sciences, on the Nottingham NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Gastrointestinal & Liver theme Strategy Board and the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre Science Committee. He chairs the Gastrointestinal MRI Research Group. He was awarded the RinR/Wellcome/RCUK Communicator's Award for his science outreach work with secondary school pupils. He is a member of the NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Funding Committee B. His expertise is in imaging the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). His research focuses on gastrointestinal physiology and pathology using MRI methods in combination with other physiological and behavioral techniques.