Luigi Marano was born in Maddaloni (CE) in 1983. He graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery from the Second University of Naples in 2007 and was admitted to the School of Specialization in General Surgery at the same university. He graduated with honors in 2014 as a Specialist in General Surgery. During his university career, he showed particular interest in esophagogastric surgery and surgical oncology, earning a second-level Master’s degree in “Digestive Oncology Surgery” from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome in 2013. Professor Marano continued his academic career by gaining access to the PhD program in “Biotechnologies Applied to Medical and Surgical Sciences” at the Second University of Naples from 2013 to 2016. After obtaining his PhD, he moved to Umbria where he worked as a Medical Director in the General, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Department at the San Matteo degli Infermi Hospital in Spoleto (PG) – AUSL Umbria 2 until December 2018. From 2018 to 2021, Prof. Marano held the position of Senior University Researcher at the University of Siena, assigned to the General and Oncological Surgery Department headed by Prof. Franco Roviello, and since 2021, he has been a tenured Associate Professor in the same Department. Prof. Marano is the author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters, published mainly internationally, on various topics in esophageal and gastric surgery and oncological surgery. He is currently a member of the Education and Training Committee – Upper-GI section of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO). For the two-year period 2019-2020 he held the position of National Coordinator of the Italian Society of Oncological Surgery – Young (YSICO).