Dr. Mornos Cristian is an associate professor at “Victor Babeș” University and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania, and an interventional cardiologist at the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Timisoara, Romania. His research program focuses on heart failure, ischemic coronary disease, and advanced echocardiographic imaging. Dr. Mornos Cristian’s long-term research interest is uncovering new cardiac imaging parameters that are associated with myocardial dysfunction with the goal of developing innovative therapeutic strategies to treat cardiometabolic dysfunction. Throughout his career, Dr. Mornos Cristian has published over 70 full-text papers, book chapters, and books, resulting in a Hirsch index of 14 (Web of Science, Core Collection) and a cumulative impact factor as a main author (FCIAP) of 42.61.  Dr. Mornos Cristian serves on the editorial board of the Romanian Journal of Cardiology and on peer review grant panels of the International Journal of Cardiology, the Journal of Clinical Hypertension, and the Journal of Clinical Medicine, Diagnostics and Scientific Reports. Apart from striving to integrate the latest findings regarding the mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases in their already established clinical contexts for both teaching and research purposes, Dr. Mornos Cristian has attempted to build a bridge between basic science and medical practice, i.e., to give research efforts a clinical significance.