Professor Peter Goadsby FRS is Director, NIHR King’s Clinical Research Facility, Professor of Neurology, King’s College London, an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King’s College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St, London, UK; and a National Institute for Health and Social Care Research Senior Investigator. He is Professor Emeritus of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles. His major research interests are in the basic mechanisms of primary headache disorders, such as migraine and cluster headache, in both experimental and clinical settings, and translating these insights into better management.