Affiliation: University Hospital La Ribera, Alzira, València, Spain

Néstor J. Martínez-Hernández is a thoracic surgeon who was born in Valencia, Spain, and attended to Valencia University, School of Medicine. He specialized in thoracic surgery in Valencia University General Hospital, after wards he moved to University Hospital of la Ribera, in Alzira. He received his PhD from Valencia University. His thesis work, in the group of Dr. Manuel Mata-Roig, focused on the development of an experimental transplantation of decellularized tracheas protocol in rabbit model. He has also developed and published several papers on clinical tracheal surgery in human, being also the editor of the Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery Consensus Document on airway surgery in 2015. He is nowadays Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery and the thoracic surgery editor of “Cirugía Española”, the official Spanish surgery journal.