Pietro Mesirca is a Permanent researcher at INSERM, Montpellier, France. He obtained a Degree in Physics at the University of Bologna, Italy in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Bologna, Italy in 2007. He was a Postdoctoral fellow in Cardiac Physiology, (IGF, CNRS, UMR 5203), Montpellier, France from 2007 to 2016. His research activity focuses mainly on the study of the mechanisms underlying cardiac automaticity.