Alireza Mani is an Associate Professor at UCL Division of Medicine. He enjoys working on interdisciplinary projects both as a researcher and teacher. His main area of interest is understanding the complexity of physiological control in critical illnesses, and he has had success in combining computational network analysis and clinical medicine in his research. Alireza studied Medicine at Tehran University and moved to UCL through a Wellcome Trust fellowship. His previous appointments were Assistant Professor of Physiology at Tarbiat Modares University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Padova.