Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Giannaccare

Eye Clinic, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Prof Giuseppe Giannaccare is an Ophthalmologist who graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2009 with full marks and honors at the Campus Biomedico University of Rome (Italy). He completed the residency program in Ophthalmology at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy) with full marks and honors in 2015. At the same University he carried out a PhD in Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences completed in 2017.

Professor Giannaccare’s academic career started in 2017 at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna as Researcher. In 2019 he became Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro (Italy). Since 2023, he is Full Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman of Eye Clinic and Director of Ophthalmology Residency Program at the University of Cagliari (Italy).

Professor Giannaccare is the author of 307 publications indexed in Scopus (H index 41). He has received numerous national and international awards, including the Scientific Research Award of the Italian Ophthalmological Society in 2018 (funding of 25,000 €) and the Guinness World Records for having taken part as co-author at the greatest scientific work in terms of collaborators (n=15,025). Principal investigator of various projects funded by the Italian Minister of University and Research (PRIN).

From 2015 to 2017, Professor Giannaccare served as Directive Board Member for the Young Ophthalmologists at the European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE) and currently he is the National Representative for Italy. Since 2019 he is Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology and since 2023 Fellow of the World College of Refractive Surgery and Visual Sciences.

From 2019 to 2023, Professor Giannaccare was Directive Board Member for the Italian Society of Corneal and Ocular Surface Transplantation (SITRAC). Since 2024 he is Italian Ambassador for Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) and European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER). His main research areas concern medical and surgical pathologies of cornea and ocular surface.

Updated 5 August 2025