Gianluca Coppola, MD, PhD, is board-certified neurologist since 2005 and holds doctoral degree from Sapienza University of Rome. He is clinical neurologist at G.B. Bietti Foundation-IRCCS in Rome. He obtained the certification of Associated Professor of Neurology. He is member of the International Headache Society, of the Italian Societies for the Study of Headache, of Clinical Neurophysiology, of Psychophysiology, of Neurology, and of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neurosciences.

His research interests include the use of neurophysiology and neuroimaging techniques to understand primary headaches pathophysiology, and the study of visual, somatosensory, and motor systems synaptic plasticity.