Pall Karlsson is Associate Professor at the Danish Pain Research Centre at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he has been employed since 2009. Dr Karlsson holds a bachelor degree in molecular biology from University of Iceland, a master‘s degree in molecular biology from Aarhus University and a PhD from the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University from 2013. He is responsible for the skin biopsy laboratory at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, overseeing both clinical and research-related skin biopsies. His research is focused on understanding why some, but not all, patients with diabetes develop neuropathic pain and to identify novel biomarkers of neuropathic pain. Dr Karlsson has authored over 45 research papers and has ongoing international collaboration with several prestigious institutions in both Europe and the United States, and is part of the International Diabetic Neuropathy Consortium (IDNC).