Professor Natzi Sakalihasan is a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon and a Professor and director of the “Center of the Research and Experimental Surgery” (CREDEC) at the University of Liege, GIGA Cardio-vascular Sciences Liege, Belgium. He received his medical school diploma from Cerrahpasa Medical School at the University of Istanbul, and its equivalence from the University of Liege. From 1986 to date, Natzi Sakalihasan has been working as a cardiovascular surgeon in the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the University Hospital of Liege. He defended his PhD and Aggregation thesis on aortic aneurysms in 1994 and 2005, respectively. Professor Sakalihasan authored/coauthored about 180 scientific papers including about 70 papers on abdominal aortic aneurysms. His interest in research focused especially on all aspects of abdominal aortic aneurysms, aortic dissections, and functional imaging of aortic diseases.