Co-Editor-in-Chief

Prof. van Sinderen received his Ph.D. at the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Gerard Venema. Following his Ph.D., he moved to University College Cork, Ireland, to take up a postdoctoral position. He currently holds a personal Chair in Molecular Microbiology in the School of Microbiology, University College Cork, while is he also one of the founding Principal Investigators of APC Microbiome Ireland, a multidisciplinary research center focusing on the human gut microbiome funded by the national funding agency Science Foundation Ireland. He furthermore acts as a visiting professor at the University of Parma, Italy. Prof. van Sinderen’s research interests include molecular biology, biotechnology, and comparative and functional genomics of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria, as well as their infecting bacteriophages. He co-authored over 550 peer-reviewed publications (of which two co-authorships in Nature, eight in PNAS USA, one in Nature Communications, two in Microbiome, and three in ISME Journal), contributed to 17 book chapters, was co-editor of 3 books, and is listed as an inventor on 12 patents/patent filings. Prof. van Sinderen's h-index, according to Web of Science is 78; according to Google Scholar is 95; according to Scopus is 79. Prof. van Sinderen was nominated among the highly cited researchers since 2020 (Top 1% by citation per field and year by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science).

Bacteriophages, Gut commensals, Bifidobacteria, Lactococcus lactis, Streptococcus thermophilus, Microbiota, Microbiome, Lactic acid bacteria, Phage-host interactions, Microbe-host interactions, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics