Prof. Dr. Andrés Rodríguez Lorenzo completed his plastic surgery residency and PhD studies at the University Hospital of A Coruña, Spain, followed by a two-year microvascular fellowship at the Cannieburn Plastic Surgery Unit in Glasgow and the Chang Gung Memorial University Hospital in Taiwan. Currently, he is the Chief and Associate Professor in Plastic Surgery and the program director of the International Fellowship Program in Microsurgery at the Uppsala University Hospital, leading one of the most active microsurgical centers in Scandinavia. His main research focus is head and neck reconstruction, including preclinical studies of face transplantation, virtual planning and facial paralysis. He is the co-director of the biennial course "Facial Palsy: A hands-on Course – www.facialpalsy.eu" in Vienna, Austria, and the biannual "Scandinavian Facial Nerve Meeting" in Uppsala, Sweden.