Filip K. Knop University of Copenhagen, Denmark Filip K. Knop, MD PhD, is a consultant endocrinologist, professor of endocrinology and head of the Center for Clinical Metabolic Research at Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Prof. Knop has been involved in diabetes research since his fellowship at The Distinguished Gifford Laboratories for Diabetes Research, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in 1999 where he was supervised by Professor Christopher B. Newgard. Filip K. Knop’s research, for which he has received a number of grants and honours (e.g. named “Rising star” by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in 2010, and more recently the European Journal of Endocrinology Prize 2018), centres on human metabolism and the pathophysiology of obesity and related disorders including type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, regulation of appetite and food intake, and the therapeutic potential of factors involved in these processes. He is particularly interested in the integrative role of the gut and the liver in human (patho)physiology. Prof. Knop has authored 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He serves as a referee for several international journals including The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Diabetes and Diabetologia and he is a member of numerous professional societies and committees.