Professor Thomas Danne is Director of the Department of General Pediatrics and Endocrinology/Diabetology and Clinical Research at the Auf der Bult hospital for children and adolescents, Hannover Medical School, Germany, which is the largest paediatric diabetes centre in Germany. He trained at the Free University Berlin Children’s Hospital in Berlin and was Consultant Paediatrician at the Charité Children’s Hospital of Humboldt University, Berlin. He is a former research fellow of the Joslin Diabetes Center of Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Presently, he is appointed as Chair of the SWEET registry (www.sweet-project.org) and Vice-Chair of INNODIA-iVZW (www.innodia.eu), a consortium to fight type 1 diabetes. He has served as Secretary General and President of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD). Also, he is the past-president of the German Diabetes Association (DDG). He has been awarded the Helmut Otto Medal of the DDG, the Somogyi Award of the Hungarian Diabetes Association, the ISPAD Prize of Achievement and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Diabetes Federation. His research interests include basic and clinical research in paediatric diabetology, with special emphasis on quality improvement through registers, new insulins, glucose sensors, insulin pumps and automated insulin delivery.