Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri

Silvano Gallus obtained a degree in computer science from the University of Milan and a PhD from Maastricht University (the Netherlands). Since 1997, he worked as an epidemiologist and public health researcher at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, where he led the Laboratory of Lifestyle Research since 2017. During his 28-year career, he gained extensive experience conducting independent research and national and international collaborative projects, including eight projects funded by the European Commission, in the fields of epidemiology and public health. His main areas of interest are the epidemiology of tobacco use and other major risk factors in Italy and Europe, the role of novel tobacco and nicotine products on public health, the role of tobacco on COVID-19 and the epidemiology of tinnitus. Silvano Gallus is the author or co-author of over 550 articles, including over 470 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index: 84 according to Scopus and 106 according to Google Scholar). From 2017 to 2021, Silvano Gallus was an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham in the UK. In addition to his National Scientific Habilitation as an Associate Professor (sector 06/M1; valid until 2025), he obtained the National Scientific Habilitation as a Full Professor from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (sector 06/M1) in 2022. Since the 2022/23 academic year, Dr. Gallus have been teaching as an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Pavia. He received several awards for my scientific achievements, including the Ig-Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2019.