Ricardo Armentano is a distinguished professor of Cardiovascular Engineering, member of the EMBS IEEE Technical Committee on Cardiopulmonary Systems Technology and Vice Chair of Global Citizen Safety and Security Working Group of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering. Also he is the Director of PhD program (signal & image processing) at the National Technological University in Buenos Aires, Argentina and a Grade 5 researcher of the United Nations Program for the Development of Basic Sciences in Uruguay. He has acquired international recognition in the field of cardiovascular hemodynamics and arterial hypertension. He has taught in the fields of cardiovascular dynamics and in the broad area of engineering in medicine and biology and has extensive experience in research supervision. He is on the editorial board of journals of cardiovascular research and is a reviewer for over 25 international scientific journals. He has over 200 publications including books, book chapters and peer–reviewed articles.