Giuseppe Plazzi is professor of neurology at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy. He is the director of the panel of reviewers of scientific products for the medical area at the University of Bologna (valutazione della ricerca di Ateneo – VRA). He is head of the sleep laboratories and of the outpatient clinic for narcolepsy and CNS hypersomnias of the University of Bologna and of the Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna. Giuseppe Plazzi received his MD degree from the University of Bologna in 1988 and then his specialization in Neurology. He trained in neurology, neurophysiology and sleep medicine in Bologna. He has authored over 300 scientific publications (CI>11000 (Scopus); H-index: 54). He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, California. His main area of scientific interest and expertise focuses to the clinical aspects and to the pathophysiology of narcolepsy: he coordinates a multidisciplinary research group and he is chief of the scientific advisory board of the Italian association of narcoleptic patients (AIN). He also contributed to the clinical, polysomnographic, epidemiological and genetic definition of several sleep disorders and to the polysomnographic characterization of sleep in neurological diseases. He has been granted from the Italian ministries of research and of health for several research projects in the field of narcolepsy.