Professor Tiberio started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of General Surgery at the University of Brescia in 1995. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as Assistant étranger en Chirurgie Générale et Digestive at the Université Luis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. In 2000 he was appointed Associate Professor of General Surgery at the University of Brescia. Full Professor of General Surgery from 2006, he served at the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome and, from 2012, at the University of Brescia. His surgical activity is mainly carried out as a Senior Consultant at ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, a regional tertiary university hospital. His areas of main interest include digestive (with particular emphasis on gastric neoplasms), hepatic, pancreatic and adrenal surgery, emergency surgery and surgery of peritoneal surface malignancies. Prof. Tiberio’s scientific activity addresses both clinical research and basic science with translational interest.