Gianluca Coppola, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of neurology at Sapienza University of Rome Polo Pontino ICOT, Latina (Italy). He is co-chair of the Membership Committee of the International Headache Society (IHS), member of the Board at Large of the European Headache Federation (EHF), and member of the Study Center of the Italian Society for the Study of Headache (SISC). His research interests include the use of electrophysiology and neuroimaging techniques to understand primary headache pathophysiology and to study visual, somatosensory, and motor system synaptic plasticity mechanisms. He has published more than 220 original articles and book chapters on these topics.