Professor of Neurosurgery, Head of the Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Dr. Antonio Di Ieva is Professor of Neurosurgery at Macquarie University, Professor of Neurosurgery at the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy at the Medical University of Vienna. He specialises in neuro-oncology, skull base surgery, microneurosurgery and endoscopic neurosurgery, pain neuromodulation, peripheral nerve surgery, spine surgery, and computational neurosurgery.
He leads the Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab, which he founded in 2018. Prof. Di Ieva has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and five textbooks, including the Handbook of Skull Base Surgery (Thieme, 2015), The Fractal Geometry of the Brain (Springer, 1st Ed. 2016; 2nd Ed. 2024), the Computational Neurosurgery textbook (Springer, 2024), and Computational Neuroscience (Springer, 2026). He has also authored an educational book on biology (in Italian).
He has secured more than $9 million in research funding, including a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship, several major grants from the NHMRC, and the John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship from the RACS. A global pioneer in computational modelling, fractal analysis, and AI in neurosurgery, Prof. Di Ieva established the world’s first Computational Neurosurgery Fellowship and organised the inaugural World Conference of Computational Neurosurgery (Sydney, February 2026).
He also leads courses on neuroanatomy and connectomics in Australia and abroad, having introduced the first hands-on workshops on white matter dissection in Australia, attended annually by 20 neurosurgeons and trainees.
Beyond the foundation of the computational neurosurgery field, his research contributions include the description of new neuroanatomical structures, the concept of clinical aggressiveness in pituitary neuroendocrine tumours, the application of computational fractal-based analysis to neuro-oncology and to the cognitive neurosciences, advances in neuroimaging sequences and connectomics, the advancement of the use of the endoscope in skull base surgery (including orbital surgery), and the standardisation of neurotraumatology protocols.
Furthermore, Prof. Di Ieva operates pro bono in the Solomon Islands.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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