Professor Luigi Nibali  trained in dentistry at the University of Catania, Italy and completed his MSc and PhD in Periodontology at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute (EDI). His PhD topic was ‘Genetics of aggressive periodontitis’. From 2016, he worked part-time at the Centre for Immunobiology & Regenerative Medicine at the Queen Mary University (QMUL) as a Senior Lecturer and then Reader, continuing in private practice limited to periodontology and implant dentistry. He has been on the UK GDC Specialist list for Periodontics since 2007.

Luigi has published widely in periodontal and medical journals and received several periodontal research prizes, including the Fish Prize from the British Society of Periodontology and the Socransky Award from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Dental Research and the Journal of Clinical Periodontology. He is also the author of two books on periodontology and dysbiosis. His clinical focus his mainly on treating complex periodontal cases, particularly deep intrabony defects and molars with furcation involvement. His main research interests are minimally-invasive periodontal treatment, genetics/microbial risk factors for periodontitis and periodontal medicine. Together with his research team, he has proposed the concepts of periodontal infectogenomics and genetic dysbiosis, as part of an attempt to gain better understanding of the relationships between microbial triggers and host response in periodontitis.

He joined King's College London in June 2019 as Academic Lead and Director of the Postgraduate Periodontology program. In 2023 he was appointed Head of the Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions.