Chief of the Department of Anestesia, Rianimazione Ed Emergenza Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan. ECMO has been his main research interest. Other research interests include respiratory mechanics, lung functional imaging and gas exchange in ARDS, nutrition and metabolism of the critical ill, septic shock and cardiac arrest. He performed several editorial activities and participation in scientific committees. In 2017 he was awarded with the ESICM Honorary Membership. He is PI of a MIUR-PRIN 2017 project on hypercapnic respiratory failure. He served as coordinator of the Italian “ECMO network” (Rete Respira) instituted by the Italian Health Ministry during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. He served as coordinator of “Unità di Crisi” for the “COVID-19 Lombardy ICU Network” instituted in February 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. BIBLIOMETRIC INDEX: SCOPUS JULY 2020, 412 PUBLICATIONS, h-index 65