During the annual meeting of the German Cardiac Society, which took place from April 4-7, 2018 in Mannheim, Germany, Jordi Heijman was re-elected as member of the nucleus for the working group “Cellular Electrophysiology”. Jordi has been a nucleus member since 2016 and will now continue to promote cellular and translational electrophysiology within the German Cardiac Society until 2020. Besides organizing scientific sessions during various meetings, the nucleus is also working on a ‘state of the art’ paper on the role of basic science in clinical electrophysiology.