TY - JOUR T1 - Interview with the ECM Award winner 2022 and introducing the new ECM members JF - Breathe JO - Breathe DO - 10.1183/20734735.0274-2022 VL - 19 IS - 1 SP - 220274 AU - Kiho Son AU - Eskild Morten Landt AU - Christoph Fisser AU - Sara Cuevas OcaƱa AU - Susanne J.H. Vijverberg AU - Dorina Rama Esendagli AU - Joana Cruz Y1 - 2023/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/19/1/220274.abstract N2 - The Early Career Member (ECM) Award is intended to honour promising members of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) at an early stage of their professional career, based on their curriculum vitae, involvement in the ERS and potential for future scientific contributions. This award is given during the ERS International Congress, where the ECM Awardee is invited to give the Mina Gaga lecture during the ECM session. In this article, we present an interview conducted with the 2022 ECM Award winner, Alexander Mathioudakis, where he discussed his work and visions for the future and shared some tips for ECMs starting a career in respiratory research. We also provide a brief introduction to the new members of the ECM Committee (ECMC) from Assemblies 2 (Respiratory intensive care), 3 (Basic and translational sciences), 7 (Paediatrics) and 8 (Thoracic surgery and transplantation).This article presents the interview with the ERS Early Career Member Awardee 2022 (@MathioudakisAG) and provides a brief introduction to the new ECM members https://bit.ly/3BSRgV2The authors would like to acknowledge Alexander Mathioudakis for his collaboration on the interview and for reviewing the transcript, and to Anush Meliksetyan and Olivia Menegale (European Respiratory Society, Lausanne, Switzerland) for their support in scheduling and recording the interview. ER -