Maria Brenner is a Full Professor of Children’s Nursing in the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin. She leads a programme of research on technology and complex care which includes TechChild, a 5-year project exploring the initiation of technology dependence, funded by the European Research Council. She collaborates widely internationally in this area, including Gravitate Health, a €18.5m partnership funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative, the European Commission and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries. She previously led the development of the first European principles and standards of care for children with complex care needs, as part of the Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project (funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme). She works with numerous international organisations and institutions on child health issues and leads the first Working Group on Complex Care in the European Academy of Paediatrics.