Michiel Kleerebezem

Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Michiel Kleerebezem obtained his PhD in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Utrecht in 1995. From 1995 until 2015 he has been employed at NIZO food research as a principal scientist. Since 2007 he has held a position as professor of “Bacterial Metagenomics and Host Microbe Interactions” at the Host Microbe Interactomics Group of the Wageningen University where he was full-time appointed in 2015. His expertise centers around the genomics, molecular biology and physiology of bacteria, with a special focus on lactic acid bacteria, probiotics, and the human (intestinal) microbiota. In recent years he has expanded his field to the (post-genomic) molecular analysis of mechanisms of communication between bacteria and the mucosal tissues of the host.