Dr Jean-Jacques ROUBY, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine since 1993. He was the medical director of the Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit of la Pitié-Salpétrière hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (1993-2014) and the Vice-Dean of the School of Medicine Sorbonne University in charge of teaching and training programs for medical students (2000-2010). He is Emeritus Professor at Sorbonne University of Paris and an active member of the department of research of DMU DREAM. He is the president of the European Investigator Network for Nebulized Antibiotics in Ventilaror-Associated Pneumonia (ENAVAP), a network of international researchers promoting experimental and clinical research for antibiotic nebulization. He has published more than 610 clinical and experimental studies (17577 cites, h-index = 66, g-index = 128) focusing on: mechanical ventilation and new technologies, ventilator-associated pneumonia, lung morphology in acute respiratory distress syndrome, inhaled nitic oxide, imaging in critically ill patients, bedside lung ultrasound in the critically ill and antibiotic nebulization during mechanical ventilatrion. Dr Rouby was a former member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Medicine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care and reviews for other journals such as Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Chest, Respiratory Care, JAMA and British Journal of Anaesthesia.