Alberto Corriero is a consultant anaesthetist, intensivist and pain physician in the ICU and Pain Therapy Section of the Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, where he practises at the Policlinico di Bari and teaches as an adjunct professor. He graduated in medicine at Bari in 2019, specialised in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine in 2024, and completed his PhD there in 2026, following a research fellowship at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. His main research interests are intensive care and chronic pain, with particular focus on the gut lung and gut brain axes: how the gut microbiota shapes infection, organ crosstalk and neuroinflammation in the critically ill patient, and how the same axis contributes to chronic and nociplastic pain. His work combines randomised and observational clinical studies in the intensive care unit with psychometric and clinical research on the affective dimension of chronic pain, and he is the principal investigator of a multicentre study in that field.