Ulrik Lund Andersen is a Full professor in quantum optics and quantum information, heading the section for Quantum Physics and Information Technology (QPIT) and leading the Center of Excellence on Macroscopic Quantum States (2017-2023) (bigQ.dk). He is also heading a cross-disciplinary center on quantum technology at DTU (www.quantum.dtu.dk). Over the course of his career he has made a very broad range of significant contributions to quantum optics, technology, and information including the development of new techniques to generate, control and optimally measure non-classical states of light (Gaussian, non-Gaussian and entangled states).