Joel Hedlund is Data director to the Linköping University Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) and the Analytical Imaging Diagnostics Arena (AIDA), providing services to Swedish research and innovation in AI development using personal medical imaging data. Previously, Joel engaged as a bioinformatics expert at the Swedish National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) and served as an executive at the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) where he initiated the Tryggve projects to support transnational research on personal biomedical data together with the Nordic nodes of ELIXIR.