Mr Giuliani is a Consultant Specialist Neonatal and Paediatric Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. He holds an honorary Associate Professorship at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health at UCL. Mr Giuliani has a special interest in neonatal surgery, minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy and thoracoscopy), upper and lower gastrointestinal surgery and surgical oncology in children.

Briefly, he obtained his medical degree at the University of Udine (Italy) in 2000. He completed his specialist training in Paediatric Surgery at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2006. Then he worked for four years, clinically and as a PhD student, at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. He completed his PhD in Developmental Medicine and Health Planning Science at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2010. After that, he worked as a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s University Hospitals (2011-2016). In 2015, he completed the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program (GCSRTP) at Harvard Medical School. This was a blended learning program in epidemiology and research with a focus on clinical trials.

Mr Giuliani moved to Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health (ICH) at UCL in January 2017; since then, he has been focusing his clinical and academic career on paediatric surgical oncology. Mr Giuliani is a Co-Investigator at the Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) at UCL, where he regularly supervises clinical fellows and PhD students.

In 2019, he was awarded the Clinical Academic Research Partnership (CARP) from the Medical Research Council with the project titled ‘Colour-coded surgery in neuroblastoma: developing a dual PET and Near-Infrared Fluorescent Imaging (NIRF) probe to accurately visualise tumour from diagnosis to resection’.

In 2021, he was awarded the Wellcome Trust – Innovator Award together with a multidisciplinary team of basic scientists and biomedical engineers with a project titled ‘Novel image-guided therapeutics to improve surgical precision and loco-regional control in Neuroblastoma’.

Mr Giuliani has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and ten book chapters.