Dr. Aarsland is Professor and the Head of the Department of Old Age Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK. Professor Aarsland is also a consultant psychiatrist at the Mental Health for Older Adults and Dementia, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, where he leads the Parkinson Spectrum Memory Clinic. He earned medical degrees from the Universities of Bochum, Germany, and Oslo, Norway, with training as a specialist in psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. He founded and still leads the nationally acclaimed Centre for Age-Related Diseases at Stavanger University Hospital. He completed his PhD and became appointed Associate Professor and later Full Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University in Bergen, Norway. Later, he became a Professor at the University of Oslo before becoming appointed as Professor of Clinical dementia research at the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre at the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. After working in Sweden for five years, he moved to his current position at King’s College London. Professor Aarsland developed and led the European Consortium for Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), with more than 25 centers across 13 European countries, with a common database of more than 1,200 DLB patients, and by far the largest DLB sample in the world. He developed a Parkinson-spectrum Memory Clinic focusing on Parkinson’s disease and dementia with DLB patients. Professor Aarsland played a central role in the study and subsequent paper that led to the licensing of rivastigmine for Parkinsonian dementia. Professor Aarsland has published more than 400 scientific papers and numerous books and served as an invited speaker at frequent psychiatric and neurological international scientific conferences.