Silvano Gallus

Dr. Silvano Gallus obtained a degree in computer science from the University of Milan and a PhD from Maastricht University (the Netherlands). Since 1997, Dr. Gallus has worked as an epidemiologist and public health researcher at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, where he has led the Laboratory of Lifestyle Research since 2017. During his 28-year career, Dr. Gallus has gained extensive experience conducting independent research and national and international collaborative projects, including nine 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. Dr. Gallus is author or co-author of over 550 articles, including over 470 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index: 85 according to Scopus and 107 according to Google Scholar). From 2017 to 2021, Dr. Gallus was an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham in the UK. In addition to the National Scientific Habilitation as an Associate Professor (sector 06/M1; valid until 2025), Dr. Gallus 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 has been teaching as an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Pavia. Dr. Gallus has received several awards for his scientific achievements, including the Ig-Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2019.