Fabio Silvio TACCONE, MD, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Intensive Care of Hospital Erasme in Brussels (Belgium). He received his medical degree from the University of Naples, Italy (SUN) in 2000 and moved to Belgium in 2001 to start a post-graduate license in Internal Medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (ULB). He finally became an intensivist in 2006 and immediately initiated a clinical fellowship with Prof JL Vincent. In 2009, he initiated a PhD doctorate (“Fondation Erasme” Award) and presented in October 2014 his thesis on cerebral perfusion during sepsis. Dr Taccone has a large area of research in critical care medicine, with particular interest in antibiotic pharmacokinetics, brain injury after cardiac arrest, cerebral perfusion and microcirculation during severe infections, and therapeutic hypothermia as a neuro-protective strategy. As one of the people involved in animal research in the “Laboratoire de Recherche Experimentale”, which is affiliated with the Dpt of Intensive Care in Brussels, Dr. Taccone helps with both clinical and experimental research for potential young physicians, especially with planning or conducting a research project, provide expert advise in critical care and assist in potential international projects using his large network of contacts.