Andreas Kjaer is a professor at the University of Copenhagen and chief physician at Rigshospitalet, the National University Hospital. He is also a Danish physician–scientist and European Research Council (ERC) advanced grantee. He is board-certified in Nuclear Medicine. He obtained his MD degree from the University of Copenhagen and the United States ECFMG license as an MD. He was a visiting scientist at the Salk Institute (La Jolla) and Emory University (Atlanta). He also served as a medical officer in the Royal Danish Navy (first lieutenant in 1989, lieutenant commander in 1994). He is currently the director of the PhD program for Medical and Molecular Imaging at the University of Copenhagen. He has received numerous awards over the years, such as the August Krogh Prize (Organization of Danish Medical Societies, 2006), the Great Prize for Scientific Achievements (Scandinavian Society of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2007), the Global Excellence in Health Prize (2010) and the Pasteur Prize (Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, 2011). He served as president of the Scandinavian Society for Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine (SSCPNM). He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.