Anders Persson (born 1953) is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization at Linköping University, Sweden, and Linköping University Hospital. He was recruited by Linköping University in 2002 to start the center. In 2005 he received his Ph.D. from Linköping University in Medical Imaging.[1] He received the most prestigious award for scientific photography, the Lennart Nilsson Award from the Karolinska Institute, in 2008 "for the development of new imaging technologies and methods, which are extremely useful in health care and medical research".[1][2]