Gianluigi Savarese is an Italian/Swedish cardiologist, currently Associate Professor of Cardiology and Senior Lecturer at Karolinska Institutet, and Heart Failure Specialist at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Over the last few years, he has published ~300 articles on top peer reviewed journals. Major focus of his research is heart failure, with a particular interest in implementing use of guidelines recommended treatments, and phenotyping heart failure for improving clinical trial design. He is heavily involved in registry studies (Swedish Heart Failure Registry, ESC registries) and clinical trials, and he is expert in meta-analysis and big data analysis. He is board member of the Heart Failure Association and of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy of the European Society of Cardiology. Among others, he is Deputy Editor of EHJ-Open, EHJ-CR, and Associate Editor of European Journal of Heart Failure.