Peter Kristensen is Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Biostructural Chemistry from the University of Aarhus. With a career spanning over two decades, his academic journey is marked by significant contributions to protein engineering and biostructural chemistry. Kristensen's research has made impactful advances in directed evolution technologies, particularly in generating and isolating recombinant antibodies from large libraries. His pioneering work has been instrumental in fields such as oncology and prenatal diagnostics, where he has developed methods to identify circulating tumor cells and single fetal cells in maternal blood.