Dr Georgios Sianos is a Professor of interventional Cardiology in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a world-expert in interventional cardiology and has undertaken extensive research regarding thrombus in STEMI patients, including the introduction of Sianos’ classification for thrombus burden and the micro-CT analysis of aspirated thrombus. He has authored more than 200 publications in leading international peer-reviewed Journals (Google Scholar citation index 18530, h-index 59), the most-cited being the SYNTAX score paper. He is a member of numerous Scientific Societies and ,currently the president of the EURO-CTO Club. He is recognized by the industry as a key opinion leader in the field of complex cardiovascular interventions, including the mechanical approaches for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. Thus, he is extensively involved in the pre-clinical and pre-approval phase of medical devices. He has been Invited faculty in more than 350 of the most important international meetings in Cardiology.