...in November, FMT moves to Copenhagen for the annual Danish Microbiology Society meeting. Presented posters and enjoyed a full day with nothing but talking microbiology (and it was a long day). Lucia Huertas Diaz, Ker Sin-Ng and Mensure Elvan acknowledge being supported by a FEMS travel grant.

picture credits, Marta Irla and Angeliki Marietou

I am very happy and proud to announce that I have been recently promoted to Full Professor at Aarhus University.

Despite the many challenges that work at a university entails, there is no other job I would rather have. It is a privilege to provide research-based education to students while running an independent research group, whose curiosity, motivation and unforeseen outcomes make every week unpredictable and never boring.

A big shout out to all the current and past students at University of Alberta, University of Vienna, ETH Zurich, CZU Prague and Aarhus University, you are a big part of this! And it is a pleasure to see thrive still at, or after university.

Heads up to the many colleagues and collaborators past and present and the many coffees that were drunk. Every move was done at a different career stage and asked for an introduction to a new place and university, education style and funding landscape.

And finally, this would all have not been possible without a partner, who agreed to move along even though there was hardly any certainty on where the journey would bring us, and who manages life at home. We are glad that we ended up in Denmark and have been making our base here.

I am looking forward to further consolidating our research on the interface of food and gut biotechnology at Aarhus University that addresses many current societal issues related to sustainable and safe food and gut health.

…and to contribute to the development of the (young) Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering and the Section of Industrial Biotechnology. Look out for us, there will be more to come!

There will be a small celebration, date will be linked in the comments once set.

And the good news came during vacation: