From November 1st 2019 onwards, Dr. Jordi Heijman has been promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University. After several years of postdoctoral research in Germany, Jordi returned to Maastricht in 2015. Together with a team of highly motivated students, his ambition is to improve our mechanistic understanding and treatment of cardiovascular diseases through a combined computational-experimental approach.