Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Brussels and Consultant (past-Chair) in the Department of Intensive Care at the Erasme University Hospital in Brussels.

Past-President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), the European Shock Society (ESS).

Member of the Royal Medical Academy of Belgium.

Made a Baron by the King of Belgium.

Numerous international awards.

Author of over 1400 journal articles, with > 290,000 citations.

H-index 215.

Editor-in-chief of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care,

and ICU Management & Practice.