Fabio Miraldi is a professor at the Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He was a Research Fellow in Cardiac Surgery at La Sapienza University in Rome in 1998 and an Associate Professor in Cardiac Surgery at La Sapienza University in Rome in 2001. His research interests include the surgical treatment of arrhythmias, extracorporeal circulation, stentless valves, tissue engineering, and fencing.