I am a clinical cardiologist currently working as a senior lecturer in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow, with an honorary consultant cardiologist contract with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. I obtained my medical degree from Sapienza University in Rome and completed my specialist training in Cardiology in 2008 from the same institution. I spent my last 9 months of training abroad at a tertiary centre (RWTH University, Aachen, Germany) to improve my skills in advanced echocardiography. I subsequently worked for 6 months with an Italian Charity (Emergency) in Sudan (The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Khartoum) and then applied for GMC registration before moving to the UK in 2010. Over the past ten years, I have combined both research and clinical duties. I have published more than 180 papers, many in high-quality peer-reviewed journals. I have received numerous prizes in recognition for my work, including being shortlisted several times and twice winning the young investigator award (YIA) at the British Society of Heart Failure (BSH) Annual Meeting. My proudest achievement so far was an award from the American College of Cardiology for one of the two most relevant papers published by a young cardiologist in JACC-cardiovascular imaging in 2013. I am accredited by the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) in adult transthoracic echocardiography, and I obtained a level 2 certificate in cardiac CT. My current area of interest is the use of new imaging modalities as tool to quantify clinical congestion with greater precision. I am fully committed to a career as an academic clinician and look forward to collaborating with enthusiastic colleagues from all over the world.