Hugues Duffau is professor and chairman at the Department of Neurosurgery, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier University Medical Center (Montpellier, France). He trained at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, France, and has won multiple awards, including being honored with the Grand Prix of Surgical Oncology by the French National Academy of Medicine in 2012. Duffau is a prominent member of multiple editorial boards and has authored over 200 articles within the field of neuro-oncology. He is currently director of a team researching plasticity of the CNS, human stem cells and glial tumors at INSERM U1051, Montpellier, France.