Dr. Francesco Pollari received his medical degree at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome in 2007. He earned, from the University of Rome “Sapienza”, a PhD in Angio-Cardio-Thoracic Pathophysiology and Imaging (2019). Since 2013, he has been a cardiac surgeon at the Nuremberg General Hospital, and since 2021, he has been an associate professor at Paracelsus Medical University. In 2022, he won the Techno College Innovation Award at the 36th EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, and in 2008, he won the “Dr. Hans und Elisabeth Birkner Stiftung” Preis (Nuremberg). He is also a member of the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery (SICCH), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) and the German Society for Cardiac Surgery (DGTHG). His research is focused on the surgical treatment of heart disease, particularly minimally invasive surgery, TAVI and mechanical circulatory support.