Casper G. Schalkwijk is Professor of Experimental Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) of Maastricht University Medical Center. He studied chemistry at University Utrecht and graduated in biochemistry. He obtained his PhD from the same university in 1992. His post-graduate training was in endothelial cell biology. He was appointed assistant professor and staff member at the Department of Clinical Chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit Medical Cente in Amsterdam in 1995 and became associate professor in 2004, leading the Vascular Unit. He moved to the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Maastricht in 2005, where he heads the Laboratory for Metabolism and Vascular Medicine. He was appointed as Professor of Experimental Internal Medicine in 2011. His main research interests are obesity, insulin resistance, vascular complications and endothelial function.