Fabio S. Taccone, MD, PhD, is the Head of the Department of Intensive Care of the Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles (HUB) in Belgium and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Pr Taccone has a large area of interest in critical care medicine, with a particular research in antibiotic pharmacokinetics, brain injury after cardiac arrest, cerebral perfusion and microcirculation during severe infections and therapeutic hypothermia as a neuro-protective strategy. Dr Taccone has authored more than 900 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and is currently the CEO of the Experimental Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine of the Hopital Erasme in Brussels (Belgium). He is also the Vice-Chair of the International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) since 2022 and the Chair of the EURONEURO meeting since 2019.