Francesco Castelli 

Francesco Castelli graduated in Medicine and Surgery with honours in 1983. He then specialised in Infectious Diseases (University of Pavia, 1987) and in Tropical Diseases (University of Milan, 1991). Since 2005 he is Full Professor of Infectious Diseases, and since November 2022 also Rector, of the University of Brescia. He has also held the positions of UNESCO Chair in “Training and empowering human resources for health development in resource-limited countries” and Director of the Complex Structure of Infectious and Tropical Diseases of the Civil Hospital of Brescia since 2014. He has published more than 500 articles in international, peer-reviews journals and more than 110 treatise and manual chapters. He has an H-index of 63 (Scopus) e 73 (Google Scholar). In 2013 he was included in the list of “Top Italian Scientists”, and in 2021 he received the rank of Officer from the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He is currently member of the Class of Sciences at the Atheneum of Brescia.