Biography: David is a clinical neonatologist and respiratory physiologist at the Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) whose work aims at improving the respiratory outcomes of newborn infants. David currently leads the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Neonatal Research Program. This is an interconnected program of molecular and clinical science aiming to better understand lung injury and develop new neonatal critical care respiratory support strategies. David has been using EIT to achieve these aims for more than 15 years. David is the current Chair of the Respiratory Failure Section of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care and a commissioner for the Lancet Commission on the Future of Neonatology. David’s research has developed guidelines on neonatal ARDS, chest imaging and Paediatric COVID-19 therapies, and is lead investigator of the international POLAR Trial of PEEP strategies to support the preterm lung at birth and the BLUEPRINT Study to map the phenotypes and evolution of preterm lung injury.