Luca Pasquini graduated with honors at the Medical University of Florence, Italy in 2014 and is attending a radiology residency in Rome at La Sapienza University. He has been part of the fMRI lab team since January 2018 as a research fellow in Neuroradiology. His main research interests include neuro-oncology, brain plasticity and language function. He is currently collaborating with City College of New York to lead projects involving the reconstruction of the complex network that underlies language function, with the aim to predict its disruption under different conditions.