Dr Yiallouros is the Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology at the Medical School of the University of Cyprus since 2016 and directs the Respiratory Physiology Laboratory of the School (https://res-lab-pcd-service.eu/). He studied Medicine at the University of Athens supported by scholarships of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and the ‘‘A.G. Leventis Foundation’’ and trained in general pediatrics at the ‘‘P & A Kyriakou’’ Children’s Hospital in Athens and in pediatric pulmonology at St Thomas’ Hospital and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London. In 1997 joined the Department of Pediatrics at the tertiary Archbishop Makarios III” Hospital in Nicosia and established the Pediatric Pulmonology Unit which he directed for 18 years. From 2005 till 2015 he served as an Adjunct Faculty and Head of the “Respiratory Diseases & The Environment Research Program” of the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health (CII), a research institute that was established in Cyprus by an agreement of the Cyprus Government and Harvard University. Over the last 12 years, Prof Yiallouros has acquired ten competitive research grants (European Union FP7, LIFE+, Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation X 2, International and other Local grants) bringing external funding exceeding 3 million euros. In eight of these grants he was the Principal Investigator or Work Package Leader. To date, Prof Yiallouros’ published work includes >100 publications in PubMed Journals, which have received international recognition and now feature more than 15.000 citations, an h-index of 43 and total IF: >600, while he is an Associate Editor of BMC Pulmonary Medicine.