Dr Salvatore Rudilosso is a stroke neurologist from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, and a fellow member of the ESO and WSO. His main fields of research are small vessel disease (SVD) and management of acute stroke. He completed his PhD program studying the hemodynamic perfusion patterns on CT perfusion in recent small subcortical infarcts (AJNR 2015; JCBFM 2019) and he is especially interested in studying SVD underlying mechanisms and clinical implications. To broaden his knowledge in the field of SVD, he completed a 6-month mobility research program grant at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences of the University of Edinburgh and participated in the recent ESO Guidelines on covert SVD (ESJ 2021). Dr Rudilosso also studied the usefulness of CT perfusion in assessing stroke mimics (Stroke 2020) and collaborated extensively in other studies focused on CT perfusion use. Dr Rudilosso has participated as an investigator in several RCTs of mechanical thrombectomy, secondary prevention in stroke and other collaborative works. He studied the prognostic value of neurologic improvement in patients treated with mechanical thrombectomy (Stroke 2019, JNIS 2020) and the efficacy of mechanical thrombectomy according to different prognostic profiles at baseline in a large population-based registry (accepted in JOS 2021).