Jean-Louis Pépin’s education, training and research has focussed on clinical and translational research into the cardiovascular consequences associated with chronic and IH, sleep apnoea, COPD, chronic respiratory failure and noninvasive ventilation. Jean-Louis Pépin is currently: Professor of Clinical Physiology and Medical Director of the Regional Homecare System for Chronic Respiratory Failure at Joseph Fourier University Head of the HP2 Laboratory Clinical Research Team (INSERM U1042, Grenoble, France) (hypoxia pathophysiology: cardiovascular consequences of IH) and a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the Joseph Fourier University, where he holds a 5-year INSERM Interface full-time research contract. He is Head of the Clinic of Physiology, Sleep and Exercise Department, Scientific Director of Clinical Research Administration and presides over the Research Division at Grenoble University Hospital (Grenoble, France). He runs the French registry of sleep apnoea (which includes more than 90000 individuals) and is involved in the European Sleep Apnoea Database (ESADA). He is involved in several European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) Task Forces. Jean-Louis Pépin is the co-author of over 250 published scientific papers (H-index 38). He is the former President of the French Sleep Research and Medicine Society, a member of the ERS and ATS, and an associate editor of Thorax for the sleep medicine field. vii