Alexandros Mathioudakis is a Core Medical Trainee at Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He graduated from Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2011. He is currently a PhD candidate in the same centre. His research interests include COPD epidemiology, immunology and management. He has several publications in high-impact international journals and he is a peer-reviewer in international journals. He has been awarded for his research by the American Respiratory Care Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Hellenic Society for the Advancement of Biomedical Research and an active member of European Respiratory Society.