Prof.ssa Veronesi is an Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and Director of Robotic Thoracic Surgery Program at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan (Italy). She previously headed the Robotic Surgery Unit at the Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano (Mi-Italy) and screening and lung cancer prevention unit at European Institute of Oncology. Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan (Italy) in 1994. Specialties in Thoracic Surgery in 2006 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), Specialist in Surgery of the digestive system and surgical digestive endoscopy in 2000 University of Milan (Italy). She has led one of the largest European lung cancer screening programs (COSMOS studies) using low dose tomography and MicroRNA testing in high risk individuals and was principal investigator of several lung cancer chemo prevention trials funded by the American National Cancer Institute including the randomized study on inhaled Budesonide compared to placebo for screen detected lung nodules and the randomized study on the protective role of Aspirin in healthy subjects with subsolid lung lesions. Since 2007 she has developed a robotic surgery program for oncological chest diseases, she is tutor of robotic surgery in Italy and other European countries. She has designed and co-ordinated an international multicentre randomized trial to compare robotic and manual videotoroscopic surgery for the treatment of lung cancer and has instituted an European working group within the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) on Robotics Surgery focused on training and education. She won a prize in 2019 of the Robert J. Ginsberg Lectureship Award for Surgery (20th WCLC – Barcellona, Spain) and in 2017 of the Women and Technology Association as a techno-visionary in medicine. Her academic contributions include more than 247 publications in peer-reviewed indexed international journals (Scopus source: H-index 42, cited 6548) and 5 book chapters. She is member of the Editorial Board of: Lung Cancer, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Ecancermedicalscience, Frontiers in Oncology, Journal of Thoracic Disease, Journal of Visualized Surgery. She is Founding Member of Clinical Robotic Surgeon Association and Founder of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) Robotic Working Group. She is PI of an International European study funded by ERANET.