Professor of Medicine and Senior Scholar, Studium Patavinum, and former Head of vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Padova. Past secretary of the Italian Hypertension League. Chairman of the ESH Working Group on ABPM and BP variability. Medical education at the University of Padova, Italy. Worked for five years in the laboratory of Professor Stevo Julius at the University of Michigan (USA), where he received a local honor. Appointed as Lecturer of the Year in 2009 by the Belgian Hypertension Society. Appointed as a lecturer by the Indian Society of Cardiology in 2009. Coordinator of several international and national studies on hypertension and clinical pharmacology. Member of the editorial board of several international journals, including Hypertension and the Journal. Associate editor of Blood Pressure. Has published over 500 original articles and reviews in international journals for a global IF>2500. Present H-index = 91 with over 36,000 citations, according to Google Scholar. Recipient of the Alberto Zanchetti Life Achievement Award and the Talal Zein Award of the European Society of Hypertension, 2021. Main areas of research: Pathophysiology of the autonomic nervous system, blood pressure, and heart rate variability. Blood pressure measurement techniques. Exercise hemodynamics, heart rate as a cardiovascular risk factor, epidemiology and the prognostic significance of lifestyle factors, and the genetics of hypertension.