Professor Mauro Oddo is head physician and director of the Critical Care Clinical Research Unit, at the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, CHUV-Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland. He is a clinician scientist and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) researcher. Prof Oddo has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles on acute brain injury, neuroscience critical care, neurological monitoring and coma prognostication. He has served six years as section Deputy and Chair at the European Society of intensive Care and is currently acting as Associate Editor at Annals of Intensive Care journal.