Ben Gibbison is Associate Professor of Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Bristol and Honorary Consultant at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. His clinical training was in London, Australia, Cambridge and the South-West. Ben was a full-time NHS Consultant, before moving to be an academic in 2018. He now cares for people before during and after cardiac surgery for half of his time and conducts research from bench-to-bedside for the other half. His research includes physiological mechanisms, data science and applied clinical research (encompassing multi-centre randomised trials). Much of the applied clinical research involves patients under anaesthesia or in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) who cannot consent for themselves.