Matteo Rottoli is a full Professor of Surgery at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, and the Director of the Surgery of the Alimentary Tract at the Sant’Orsola Hospital in Bologna, Italy. The unit is a national referral centre for complex colorectal surgery and the largest IBD centre in Europe. His surgical interests include robotic surgery, pelvic exenteration, advanced oncologic surgery, complex Crohn's disease surgery, pouch and redo pouch surgery for ulcerative colitis.