Daniele De Luca earned his MD and PhD degrees at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome where he also obtained his fellowship in Pediatrics and Neonatology, and two postgraduate diplomas in pediatric emergencies and neonatal pulmonology.
In Paris since 2013, he directs the largest neonatal intensive care unit in France and one of the largest in Europe.
Division Chief since 2013, Associate Professor since 2015 and then Full Professor of Neonatology since 2021, at the time of appointment he was the youngest Full Professor of this discipline (43 years old).
He is currently President of the European Society for Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), the largest European pediatric scientific society that brings together neonatal and pediatric intensivists on the continent.
His group is specialized in intensive care for to life-threatening newborns and infants (prematurity, ARDS, bronchiolitis, congenital heart disease, malformations, therapeutic hypothermia etc..). During the pandemics he was actively engaged and discovered the transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (Nature Comm 2020, work with more than 500 citations) and for this he was appointed pro-tempore consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Author of about 300 scientific papers and dozens of books and chapters (H index 45), beneficiary of over 300,000 Euros of research funds. He received the Research Award of the Italian Society of Neonatology, the European Young Investigator Award in 2010 and his group won the Bengt Robertson Award in 2018.
He is Honorary President of the Pediatric Medicine Branch of the Asia-Pacific Health Association.
He is Editor of the European Journal of Pediatrics, the oldest pediatric scientific journal on the continent.
The President of the Italian Republic on the proposal of the Prime Minister Mario Draghi, appointed him Knight of the Republic on 27.12.2021.
Daniele De Luca
