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Rudi Westendorp (1959) is professor of Medicine at Old age at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2015) where he performs state-of-the-art and inter-disciplinary research within the Department of Public health and the Center for Healthy Aging. Understanding the regulation of human life history is a necessary step towards ‘personalized aging’ allowing people to live a healthier life for longer. In order to achieve this aim, he makes use of ‘big data’ and ‘computational power’ within Statistics Denmark for observational studies and exploit the vibrant environment in the Mærsk Tower when performing experimental studies. I’m continuously in dialogue with Danish citizens and stakeholders as the acquisition, handling and interpretation of personal data necessitates transparency and trust.

Trained at Leiden University, the Netherlands he became a consultant in internal medicine and epidemiology and later dedicated himself into geriatrics and gerontology. He was full professor at the Leiden University Medical Center, and chair of the department of old age medicine (2000-2014). He was founding director of the privately funded Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing (2007-2014) that conducts research, provides education and pursues societal innovations to improve quality of life of older people. He acquainted ample national and European grants, published more than 600+ original articles with an h-index of 80+, and supervised over 50+ PhD students of which three of them have been appointed full professor. He published the bestseller ‘Growing older without feeling old’ that is translated in nine languages. He was endowed doctor honoris causa by the University of Newcastle, UK (2009), and received a knighthood in the order of the Dutch Lion (2014).

Maarten Rozing (1979), MD, PhD, is assistant professor at the Department of General Practice and the Center for Healthy Aging at Copenhagen University. His work is centered on the physical and mental aspects of aging. Maarten Rozing received his specialty training as a neuropsychiatrist at the VU medical center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD on the role of thyroid and glucose metabolism in human aging, from the University of Leiden in 2012.