Brendan Cooper is Consultant Clinical Scientist and Hon. Professor in Respiratory Physiology at University Hospitals Birmingham and the University of Birmingham. He has over 40 years’ experience in both clinical and research practice in all aspects of lung function testing. He heads a large team of 50+ clinical physiologists across 5 hospital sites and has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers in respiratory physiology and is passionate about Quality Diagnostic lung function testing. He has been a member of several recent ATS/ERS Technical Standards Task Forces on lung function testing and is currently Co-Chair of the Global Lung Initiative for lung function reference values. He has been awarded; ARTP Award for Services to Respiratory Medicine 2017, AHCS Chair’s Award 2019, NHS England CSO Awards Healthcare Scientist of the Year in 2020, ERS Educational Award 2022. My research interests are wide ranging within respiratory physiology but usually evaluation of respiratory and sleep diagnostics and validation for respiratory diagnostics are the main themes.