Peter Roeleveld graduated as paediatric intensivist in 2008 after general paediatric training in Rotterdam and a Pediatric Intensive Care fellowship at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In 2009 he became a consultant at the pediatric intensive care unit at the Leiden University Medical Center and has been medical director since 2017. Peter also has experience as a paediatric intensivist at the Children’s hospital of Glasgow, Scotland. His research interests are related to postoperative cardiac care (e.g. supporting the circulation, pharmacology, infections), and ECMO. He is an active member of the EuroELSO steering committee and on the ELSO editorial board of Perfusion journal.