Prof. Mauro Maniscalco is an Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine at the University Federico II of Naples (Italy) and the Head of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Division at the Research iCS Maugeri of Telese (Benevento, Italy). He is a specialist in respiratory medicine and occupational medicine. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Federico II University of Naples in 1991, and obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Svezia) in 2006. He is researching exhaled and nasal nitric oxide, and the characterization of biomolecular markers in exhaled breath condensate of patients with respiratory and occupational disorders by using NMR spectroscopy. During his career, he has served as a reviewer for more than 50 peer-reviewed medical journals and he has authored more than 170 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented over 100 abstracts to national and international meetings. He is also a fellow of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) from 2023.