Mervyn Singer is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, UK. His primary research interests are sepsis and multi-organ failure, infection, shock and haemodynamic monitoring. Healthy number of papers, textbooks, grants and studies to his name as well as novel innovations in monitoring, devices and drugs. Loves challenging dogma, puncturing balloons and thinking outside the box. Co-chaired the Sepsis-3 Definitions International Task Force, is Secretary and Past-Chair of the International Sepsis Forum, and the first UK intensivist to be awarded senior investigator status by the UK National Institute for Health Research.