Mr Aresu is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at the Royal Papworth Hospital. He undertook his Cardiothoracic specialist training in Padua, Udine (Italy) and in Bristol (UK). In November 2011 he started working as consultant thoracic surgeon in Udine where he developed the minimally invasive program (VATS and robotic) for lung resections and thymectomies introducing in January 2014 the uniportal vats lobectomy program and in September 2015 the uniportal subxiphoid thymectomy program. Between 2015 and 2017 he spent several periods of training in the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital the biggest thoracic surgery Unit in the world. During his fellowship in minimally invasive thoracic surgery in Shanghai he further improved his clinical expertise in key hole uniportal VATS lobectomy, uniportal vats segmental lung resections and uniportal VATS subxiphoid approach for lung resections and thymectomies.