**About the Editor**

**Marco Merlo** is associate professor of Cardiology at University of Trieste. From the beginning of his career in 2008, he has shown continous interest in the research on heart failure and cardiomyopathies, with a specific focus on dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, and myocarditis. He is author and coauthor of more than 150 peer-review publications in the more important journals of Cardiology and Medicine and several chapters of books. His research is particularly focused on natural history, genotype–phenotype correlation, prognostic stratification of dilated cardiomyopathy and myocarditis.
