Hans van Goudoever is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam and vicechair of Amsterdam University Medical Centers since 2022.  He is a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Amsterdam and the Free University. He performed research for his PhD on Nitrogen metabolism in preterm infants. Subsequently, he worked at the Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Texas Children’s, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, and iat The Erasmus University of Rotterdam, mostly on intermediary metabolism. He was trained as a neonatologist and became professor and chair of neonatology in 2004. He has served in many international councils and is appointed by his royal majesty as a member of the national Health Council from 2014 onwards. He has published approximately 450 peer reviewed articles and 30 book chapters predominantly on neonatal nutrition and metabolism.