Senior Consultant, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Pediatric Home ventilation program Barcelona Children’s Hospital. Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. University of Barcelona Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Dr Pons’s clinical interests include respiratory care in critical care. Active areas of research include mechanical ventilation, mainly focused on noninvasive ventilation (NIV). He has published more than 60 studies in indexed journals (H-index 14). In 2015, the third edition of the book “NIV in Pediatrics” was written in collaboration with Dr Medina, Martinón-Torres, Teresa Gili, and Juan Mayordomo. Dr Pons is a member of the Respiratory working group of Spanish PICU society and ESPNIC since their very beginning. He has been actively involved in both groups participating in research and leading educational projects like the Non-invasive ventilation ESPNIC courses. Nowadays, the current Chair of the Respiratory Section of ESPNIC promotes an international research network called RespNIC.   Detailed information in Linkedin http://lnkd.in/hP2ZFb