Gianluca Costa is an Associate Professor of General Surgery (MED/18) at Link Campus University. He graduated from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1987, where he also obtained the title of Ph.D. (8th Cycle) in Experimental Methodologies and Technologies Applied to Surgery after specializing in General Surgery at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He acted as a Tutor of medical and health professions students and general surgery residents at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the University of Rome “Sapienza” based at the Sant’Andrea Hospital. Since 2020, thanks to the particular expertise he has acquired in Emergency Surgery, he was recruited by Fondazione Policlinico Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, which houses the homonymous University, where he is a professor at the School of Specialization in General Surgery and Coordinator for the Organization of Surgical Activities in Urgency of the Surgery Center. He is and has been the Study Director and PI of national and international research projects involving minimally invasive surgery, colorectal surgery, and emergency surgery. He is a member of national scientific societies, and took part in various conferences as a Lecturer and member of scientific committees; he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Emergency Surgery and Trauma. His research interests include Laparoscopic Surgery, General Surgery, and Acute Care Surgery.