Thoracic Society (ATS), the Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica (SEPAR) and the Catalan Society of Pulmonology (SOCAP). She is currently Secretary of the ERS Respiratory Infections Assembly, Co-Chair and member of the Steering Committee of EMBARC (European Multicentre Bronchiectasis Registry Audit and Research Collaboration), and Chair of the European task force on adult non-CF bronchiectasis (ERS 2014). Eva Polverino has been an oral session facilitator and speaker at many European, American, Latin-American and Italian respiratory congresses. She has presented more than 150 oral communications at scientific congresses/courses and more than 200 communications (abstracts, posters, etc.). Eva Polverino’s personal research interests focus on respiratory infections and particularly bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, infection control and vaccination, and pulmonary physiotherapy. Stefano Aliberti Stefano Aliberti is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Milan (Milan, Italy), and consultant at the Policlinico Hospital in Milan (Milan, Italy). He is the director of the bronchiectasis and primary ciliary dyskinesia programmes at the Policlinico Hospital. Stefano Aliberti’s major clinical and research interests are in both acute and chronic respiratory infections. He has extensive experience in clinical research in pneumonia, gained since early 2000 when he worked at the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville (Louisville, KY, USA) as an investigator of the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organization and a member of the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Inflammatory Study Group. Stefano Aliberti has extensively published clinical and translational research papers on community-acquired pneumonia, especially in the field of antimicrobial resistance, and he received the Young Researcher Award in Respiratory Infections from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in 2007. Over the past 10 years he has been heavily involved in bronchiectasis research. He is one of the founders and co-Chairs of EMBARC (the European Multicentre Bronchiectasis Registry Audit and Research Collaboration www.bronchiectasis.eu). He is also chair of both the Italian Bronchiectasis Registry (IRIDE) and the Italian Registry of Pulmonary Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (IRENE www.registroirene.it). https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10024918 xi