Kresten Lindorff-Larsen trained as a biochemist at the University of Copenhagen and Carlsberg Laboratory, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2004. He then moved on to become an assistant professor in Copenhagen before joining D. E. Shaw Research in New York in 2007. He returned to Copenhagen in 2011, where he now serves as a Professor of Computational Protein Biophysics at the Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science and is the director of the PRISM (Protein Interactions and Stability in Medicine and Genomics) centre. 

Kresten received the Danish Independent Research Councils’ Young Researchers’ Award in 2006, was a co-recipient of a 2009 Gordon Bell Prize and has received several prestigious grants including a Hallas-Møller stipend (2011), a Sapere Aude starting grant (2012), a Novo Nordisk Foundation challenge programme grant (2019), and an ERC Synergy Grant (2023).

He was elected as a fellow of the Biophysical Society in 2024 and the same year he also became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Current research interests include combining biophysics and machine learning to study the structure and dynamics of proteins with uses in basic science, biotechnology and personalized medicine.

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