Summary. Present position: Research Consultant, Istituti Clinici Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.. Chief Editor, Pulmonology Past positions: He has been also: Research Consultant, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia. Research and Clinical Department Director, Auxilium Vitae, Volterra. Pulmonary Unit. Director, Respiratory Intensive Care, Cardio-Thoracic Department, University Hospital, Pisa. Director, Pulmonary Division and Intermediate Intensive Care, S. Maugeri Foundation, Medical Center of Gussago. He has teached at Italian Universities of Pisa, Pavia, Firenze, Trieste, Milano, Siena. His research activity has been devoted to Respiratory Critical Care, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Home Respiratory Care. He contributed to the development of Non-invasive Mechanical Ventilation techniques in acute and chronic respiratory failure with several clinical trials and original experimental studies. Results of such studies have been published in more than 400 articles and chapters (Orcid), with more than 12200 Citations, H Index 54 (Scopus, October 2021). Awards: 2013 ERS Educational Award; 2013: “Livorno Oscar” Award; 2015 : ATS Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly Award; 2018: ERS Assembly 2 Lifetime Achievement Award

I am a physician with a Master's Degree in Clinical Epidemiology. Currently, I am a resident doctor of the Critical Patients Unit of Clinica Red Salud Vitacura and Clinica Indisa in Santiago de Chile. I am a Master Aspirant in Artificial Intelligence applied in Health and Big Data. Researcher in intensive care. I have led multicenter studies in Latin America and participated in book chapters on Intensive Care. With my colleagues, we are forming a network of researchers in critical care in Latin America

Khuloud Bajbouj is an Assistant Professor at College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She has a PhD degree from Institute of Pathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany. Her field of experience and research interests are in the areas of cancer research, immunology and airway remodeling in asthma. She has published many research papers in prominent international journals. She is involved in multiple internal and external funded projects focusing on understanding the immunological aspects behind many causes of human diseases.

Dr. Baraldi is Professor of Pediatrics, Women’s and Children’s Health Department, University of Padova, Italy; Head, Unit of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care, University of Padova; Past-Head of the Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Unit, University of Padova; and Past-President Italian Society for Pediatric Respiratory Diseases (SIMRI). His primary research interests: neonatology, pediatric asthma, respiratory infections, markers of airway inflammation, BPD and metabolomics.

Associate Professor, University of Padova. Main areas of expertise on respiratory research are immunology and cell biology of asthma and COPD, with particular interest on evaluating the pathogenetic mechanisms of different endotypes. My most recent interest is on the field of lung immunologic response to air pollution. I’ve been involved from long time in evaluation committees either at my university (University of Padova), the Italian Ministry of University and Research, or the European Respiratory Society (College of Experts).