Enrico Ruffini is Full Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Torino, Italy. He is the Chief of the Thoracic Surgery Unit in Torino, Italy since November 2018. He is the Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency Program at the University of Torino, Italy. He is involved in the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, formerly as Councillor (2012-2013) and officer in the role of Director of the ESTS annual meeting (2014-2017), and from 2019 to 2021 as ESTS president.  In the ESTS, he has also been the chair of the ESTS thymic working group until 2020. He served the ITMIG as secretary general for the years 2012-2014 and as member of several ITMIG committees. He has been a member of the Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee – Thymic domain (SPFC-TD) of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) for the years 2012-2016.  He is currently the Chair of the Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee – Thymic domain (SPFC-TD) of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) for the years 2017-2024. He is a reviewer for the following journals: European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Lung Cancer, Journal of Thoracic Disease. He contributed to several textbooks on thoracic surgery and he is author or coauthor of 268 indexed journal articles, with an H-index of 51 (source: Scopus).