Prof. Steffen Rex has been the Chair of the Department of Anaesthesiology at University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium since 2021 and an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven since 2011. He has a particular interest in cardiovascular anaesthesia, perioperative organ protection, postoperative delirium, anaesthetic neurotoxicity, haemodynamic monitoring, and perioperative echocardiography. Prof. Rex serves as a reviewer for several journals, including Anesthesia & Analgesia, BJA, and EJA. With over 150 peer-reviewed articles and more than 4,000 citations, he has delivered numerous lectures at national and international conferences and has presented extensive research data.