Dr. Antonio Di Ieva is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy at Macquarie University in Sydney, specialising in neuro-oncology, skull base surgery, microneurosurgery, pain neuromodulation, peripheral nerve surgery, spine surgery, and computational neurosurgery. He leads the Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab, founded by him in 2018. Prof. Di Ieva has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and five textbooks, including the Handbook of Skull Base Surgery (Thieme, 2015), the Fractal Geometry of the Brain (Springer, 1st Ed. in 2016 and 2nd Ed. in 2024), the Computational Neurosurgery textbook (Springer, 2024), and the Computational Neuroscience book (Springer, 2026). He has received more than $9Mil in research grants, including a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship, several major grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and the John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS). A global pioneer in computational modelling, fractal analysis, and AI in neurosurgery, Prof. Di Ieva has also developed the world’s first Computational Neurosurgery Fellowship. Furthermore, he leads workshops on neuroanatomy and connectomics.
Prof. Antonio Di Ieva has been named the 2026 Eccles Lecturer–one of the highest honours in the neurosciences, awarded by the Australasian Neuroscience Society and the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, in tribute to Nobel Laureate Sir John Eccles.