Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai was born in San Remo, Italy, on 25 July 1974. He obtained his MD diploma magna cum laude at the University of Milan, Italy, in 1999 with a dissertation thesis on the comparison of diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive and invasive imaging for Takayasu arteritis, supervised by Prof. Alessandro Del Maschio. He then completed compulsory military service in 2000 as Medical Officer in the 183rd Parachute Regiment of the Italian Army in Pistoia, Italy, as well as serving as Chief Medical Officer in the Task Force Falco of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in Dakovica, Kosovo.
He currently serves as Associate Professor in Cardiology in the Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies of the Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy. He has been involved, as first author or coauthor, in more than 200 systematic reviews and meta-analyses. As a whole, he has coauthored more than 760 articles indexed in PubMed, as well as several book chapters. He has a h index of 95 in Google Scholar, for a total of more than 33,000 citations, qualifying him to the 75th place in the list of Top Italian Scientists – Biomedical Sciences.