Athanase Benetos graduated from the Medical School of Athens in 1980 and obtained his PhD at the University of Paris VI in 1994. He is presently Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Biology of Aging at the University Hospital of Nancy-Lorraine. He is member of the Executive Board and the Immediate Past President of the President of the European Geriatric Medicine (EuGMS). Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INSERM), he focuses his research on the age-related arterial changes, the role of telomeres on arterial aging and the management of hypertension in very old people. Since 2015, Pr. Athanase Benetos is the Director of the Federation Hospital/University on Cardiac and Arterial Aging (FHU-CARTAGE). He has authored 430 scientific papers (Google Scholar H index 102). In 2010 he published the book “ABCDaire du futur centenaire” (Robert Laffont, Paris). In 2019 he co-edited “The Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging” (Cambridge University Press).