Fredrik Kahl received his MSc degree in computer science and technology in 1995 and his PhD in mathematics in 2001, both from Lund University, Sweden. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University in 2003-2004 and at the University of California, San Diego in 2004-2005. He is currently a Professor at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, heading the Mathematical Imaging Group. Primary research areas include geometric computer vision problems, medical image analysis and optimization methods. In 2008 he was awarded an ERC Starting Independent Research Grant from the European Research Council, and the same year, he received a Future Research Leader grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.