Professor Guillaume Alinier, PhD, has an academic career spanning over 25 years, with a special interest in simulation-based education in healthcare for which he received a UK National Teaching Fellowship award from the Higher Education Academy in 2006. He has been involved in numerous projects including designing and running simulation facilities and programmes, organizing major incident drills, and running simulation educator short courses. He is now Director of Research at Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service, Doha, Qatar but also holds visiting professorships with the Universities of Hertfordshire and Northumbria in the UK, as well as being Adjunct Professor of Education in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. He has a passion for simulation-based education and contributed to important publications and initiatives led by key international healthcare simulation societies such as the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine, the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare, and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, and has also published two books on debriefing and numerous journal articles. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9SMHCwEAAAAJ. He serves on several paramedic, emergency medicine, and simulation journal editorial boards and currently is guest editor for a special collection on “Simulation for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response“ for the journal BMC Advances in Simulation and another collection called ”Simulation at the service of improving Emergency Medicine” for the journal Panorama of Emergency Medicine.