Michel Kalamarides is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Pitié-Salpetrière Hôpital (Faculté de Medécine, Sorbonne- Université), Paris France. He is specialized in vestibular schwannoma and meningioma surgery. Within a large INSERM unit- U 1127 at Brain and Spine Institute (Pitié-Salpetrière), he is leading a research group on meningioma, particularly using mouse models to dissect the mechanisms of meningioma initiation and progression. He is leading the French NF2 reference clinical center and the French NF2 network.