Professor Alberto Avolio is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research interests include pulsatile relationships of blood pressure and flow, pulse wave analysis, vascular structure and function, and cardiovascular modeling. Recently he has been actively involved in the field of cuffless measurement of blood pressure He has published more than 350 academic publications, including monographs, book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He has obtained international recognition as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE and has received Life-Time Achievement awards from The Artery Society and Pulse of Asia.