Prof. Alessandro (Sandro) Marroni, MD, MSc, FUHM, FECB is the founder and President of DAN Europe, and Member of the Board of Directors of the International DAN Federation.

He serves as Vice President of the European Committee for Hyperbaric Medicine (ECHM); President of the European Foundation for the Education in Baromedicine; and Secretary General of the European College of Baromedicine. He is a Past-President of the International Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine, and of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society.

He is the current President of the International Academy of Underwater Sciences and Techniques.

An avid skin-diver since his early years, he learnt SCUBA diving at the age of 13 and became a Certified Diver with CMAS in 1964 and has been an Active SCUBA Instructor since 1966.

Author of over 250 scientific papers and publications, he is particularly active in underwater medicine research, with special interest in the prevention of Barotrauma and Dysbaric Illnesses in recreational diving and in the development of advanced techniques for remote diver’s physiological monitoring and of bidirectional diving telemedicine.