Gianluigi Savarese is currently Associate Professor of Cardiology and Senior Lecture at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden) where he is the Head of the Heart Failure and Arrhythmia Research. He is also Senior Cardiologist Consultant at the Southern Hospital in Stockholm. Over the last few years, he has published >350 articles on top peer-reviewed journals. Major focus of his research is on heart failure, with a particular interest in implementing use of guidelines recommended treatments, and phenotyping heart failure for improving clinical trial design. He is heavily involved in registry studies (Swedish Heart Failure Registry, ESC registries) and clinical trials, and he is expert in meta-analysis and big data analysis. He is secretary of the Heart Failure Association. Among others, he is Deputy Editor of EHJ-Open, EHJ-CR, and Associate Editor of European Journal of Heart Failure.