Prof. De Luca directs the largest neonatal intensive care unit in France and one of the largest in Europe.
Division Chief since 2013, Associate Professor since 2015 and then Full Professor of Neonatology since 2021, at the time of appointment he was the youngest Full Professor of this discipline.
He is Past President and Honorary lifetime member of the European Society for Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), the largest European pediatric scientific society that brings together neonatal and pediatric intensivists on the continent.
His group is specialized in intensive care for to life-threatening newborns and infants (prematurity, ARDS, bronchiolitis, congenital heart disease, malformations, therapeutic hypothermia etc..). During the pandemics he was actively engaged and discovered the transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and for this he was appointed pro-tempore consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO). He has been a member of the Pediatric Committee of the European medicine Agency.
Author of about 400 scientific papers and dozens of books and chapters (H index 54). He received the Research Award of the Italian Society of Neonatology, the European Young Investigator Award in 2010 and his group won the Bengt Robertson Award in 2018. He is Honorary President of the Pediatric Medicine Branch of the Asia-Pacific Health Association and Honorary Member of the Sociedad Espanola de Neonatologia and of the American Pediatric Society.
He is Editor of the European Journal of Pediatrics.
The President of the Italian Republic appointed him Knight of the Republic and presented him with the Silver Medal of Public Health.
