Fellows
The European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) proudly brings together a distinguished community of leading scientists whose contributions have shaped and advanced the field of microbiology. Below, you will find the complete list of our esteemed Fellows.
Introducing the 2026 cohort of newly elected Fellows
| name | Subject Area / Affiliation (country) |
| Rachel ARMSTRONG | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / KU Leuven (Belgium) |
| Joana AZEREDO | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Medical microbiology / Universidade Do Minho (Portugal) |
| Fredrik BÄCKHED | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Gothenburg (Sweden) |
| Bonnie BASSLER | Cell microbiology / Howard Hughes Medical Institute (United States) |
| Gregg BECKHAM | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / National Laboratory of the Rockies (United States) |
| David BIKARD | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Institut Pasteur – Paris (France) |
| Ariane BRIEGEL | Cell microbiology / Institut Pasteur – Paris (France) |
| Fabien BURKI | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Uppsala University (Sweden) |
| Rut CARBALLIDO LOPEZ | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Cell microbiology / Micalis Institute (France) |
| Eric CASCALES | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France) |
| Felipe CAVA | Medical microbiology / Environmental Microbiology / Umeå University (Sweden) |
| Duccio CAVALIERI | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Mycology/Fungal biology / University of Florence (Italy) |
| Nina CHANISHVILI | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Food Microbiology / G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology (Georgia) |
| Gerard CLARKE | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University College Cork (Ireland) |
| Rita COLWELL | Cell microbiology / Environmental Microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Maryland, College Park (United States) |
| Sarah COULTHURST | Cell microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Dundee (United Kingdom) |
| John CRYAN | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Medical microbiology / University College Cork (Ireland) |
| Daniele DAFFONCHIO | Environmental Microbiology / Università Degli Studi Di Torino (Italy) |
| Christiane DAHL | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Germany) |
| Arjan DE VISSER | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Medical microbiology / Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands) |
| Edward DE LONG | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Environmental Microbiology / National Academy of Sciences (United States) |
| Christian DROSTEN | Virology / Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany) |
| Dilfuza EGAMBERDIEVA | Environmental Microbiology / National University of Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan) |
| Edward EGELMAN | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Virology / National Academy of Sciences (United States) |
| Santiago ELENA | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Virology / Instituto De Biología Integrativa De Sistemas (i2sysbio-csic) (Spain) |
| Thijs ETTEMA | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands) |
| Luis Ángel FERNÁNDEZ | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC) (Spain) |
| Reinhard FISCHER | Mycology/Fungal biology / Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology (Germany) |
| Matthias FISCHER | Environmental Microbiology / Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Germany) |
| Simon FOSTER | Cell microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / The University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) |
| Michael GALPERIN | Biochemistry and Metabolism / NCBI, NLM, National Institutes of Health (United States) |
| Paolina GARBEVA | Environmental Microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) (Netherlands) |
| Rafael GIRALDO | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) (Spain) |
| Ivo GOMPERTS BONECA | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Institut Pasteur (France) |
| Peter GREENBERG | Environmental Microbiology / University of Washington (United States) |
| Chris GREENING | Medical microbiology / Environmental Microbiology / Monash University (Australia) |
| Dina GROHMANN | Cell microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Regensburg (Germany) |
| Hans-Peter GROSSART | Environmental Microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Leibniz Institute Of Freshwater Ecology And Inland Fisheries (igb) (Germany) |
| Nina GUNDE CIMERMAN | Mycology/Fungal biology / Environmental Microbiology / University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) |
| Lindsay HALL | Medical microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) |
| Susanne HÄUSSLER | Medical microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) (Germany) |
| Sophie HELAINE | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Harvard Medical School (United States) |
| Hubert HILBI | Medical microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Kathryn HOLT | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom) |
| Lora HOOPER | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (United States) |
| Matthias HORN | Virology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Vienna (Austria) |
| Mathias HORNEF | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / RWTH Aachen University Hospital (Germany) |
| Wei HUANG | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / University of Oxford (United Kingdom) |
| Diarmaid HUGHES | Medical microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / ENABLE-2 (Antibiotic discovery and development platform) (Sweden) |
| Christine JACOBS-WAGNER | Cell microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Stanford University (United States) |
| Kimberly KLINE | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Geneva (Switzerland) |
| Roberto KOLTER | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Harvard Medical School (United States) |
| Eugene KOONIN | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Virology / NCBI, NLM, National Institutes of Health (United States) |
| Marion KOOPMANS | Virology / Viroscience Department, Erasmusmc, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Netherlands) |
| Omry KOREN | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Bar-Ilan University (Israel) |
| Kostas KORMAS | Environmental Microbiology / University of Thessaly (Greece) |
| Ákos T. KOVÁCS | Environmental Microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Leiden University (Netherlands) |
| Tino KRELL | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Estación Experimental del Zaidín-CSIC (Spain) |
| Roberto KOLTER | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Harvard Medical School (Switzerland) |
| Nick LANE | Medical microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University College London (United Kingdom) |
| Trevor LAWLEY | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Wellcome Sanger Institute (United Kingdom) |
| Maryse LEBRUN | Cell microbiology / Inserm (France) |
| Sang Yup LEE | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea) |
| Tami LIEBERMAN | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (United States) |
| Debbie LINDELL | Virology / Environmental Microbiology / Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) |
| Purificacion LOPEZ-GARCIA | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Environmental Microbiology / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France) |
| Hanah MARGALIT | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem (Israel) |
| William F. MARTIN | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / University of Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| Sophie MARTIN | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / University of Geneva (Switzerland) |
| Margaret MCFALL-NGAI | Cell microbiology / California Institute of Technology (United States) |
| James MCINERNEY | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) |
| Nancy MORAN | Environmental Microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Texas at Austin (United States) |
| Dianne NEWMAN | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / California Institute of Technology (United States) |
| Olivier NEYROLLES | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Cell microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France) |
| Ken NEALSON | Environmental Microbiology / USC Dornsife (United States) |
| Pablo Ivan NIKEL | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Environmental Microbiology / Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) |
| Paul NURSE | Cell microbiology / The Francis Crick Institute (United Kingdom) |
| Iruka N.OKEKE | Medical microbiology / University Of Ibadan (Nigeria) |
| Kai PAPENFORT | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) |
| M. Auxiliadora PRIETO | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Environmental Microbiology / Spanish National Research Council (Spain) |
| James PROSSER | Environmental Microbiology / NCIMB (United Kingdom) |
| Eduardo ROCHA | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France) |
| Fernando ROJO | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC) (Spain) |
| Ilan ROSENSHINE | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / The Hebrew University (Israel) |
| Brajesh SINGH | Environmental Microbiology / University Of Western Australia (Australia) |
| Justin SONNENBURG | Medical microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Stanford University (United States) |
| Søren J. SØRENSEN | Environmental Microbiology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Copenhagen (Denmark) |
| Diana SOUSA | Biotechnology, Synthetic and Systems Biology / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands) |
| Anja SPANG | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Netherlands) |
| Timothy STINEAR | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / The University of Melbourne (Australia) |
| Willy VERSTRAETE | Environmental Microbiology / Ghent University (Belgium) |
| Lawrence WACKETT | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Environmental Microbiology / University of Minnesota (United States) |
| Grzegorz WEGRZYN | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / University of Gdansk (Poland) |
| Cornelia WELTE | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / Environmental Microbiology / Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) |
| Tom WILLIAMS | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / University Of Bath (United Kingdom) |
| Michail YAKIMOV | Environmental Microbiology / National Research Council (Italy) |
Pre-2026 EAM Fellows
| name | Subject Area / Affiliation (country) |
| Chantal ABERGEL | Environmental Virology, Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics / Aix-Marseille University (France) |
| Martin ACKERMANN | Molecular Microbial Ecology / ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Ruedi AEBERSOLD | Molecular Systems Biology / ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Sonja Verena ALBERS (@Archaellum) | Molecular Biology of Archaea / University of Freiburg (Germany) |
| Jeff ALMOND | Vaccinology / University of Oxford (England) |
| Shoshy, ALTUVIA | Microbiology and Molecular Genetics / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) |
| Rudolf AMANN | Molecular Ecology / MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany) |
| Dan I. ANDERSSON | Bacterial Genetics & Evolution, Antibiotic Resistance / Uppsala University (Sweden) |
| Siv G. E. ANDERSSON | Cell and Molecular Biology / Uppsala University (Sweden) |
| Irini, ANGELIDAKI | Bioresource Technologies / Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) |
| Judy ARMITAGE (@Armitage_Judi) | Department of Biochemistry / University of Oxford (England) |
| Cecilia ARRAIANO (@ArraianoLab) | Control of Gene Expression, RNA, Synthetic Biology / NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal) |
| Nathalie Q. BALABAN | Lab of Self-Replicating Matter / Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) |
| Petr BALDRIAN | Environmental Microbiology / The Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) |
| Dennis H. BAMFORD | Molecular Virology / University of Helsinki (Finland) |
| Fernando BAQUERO | Microbial Evolutionary Biology & Antibiotic Resistance / Ramón y Cajal Institute for Research in Biomedicine IRYCIS (Spain) |
| Frédéric BARRAS (@FredBarras) | Stress Adaptation and Metabolism in Enterobacteria / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Ralf BARTENSCHLAGER | Molecular Virology / University Hospital Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Marek BASLER (@Basler_Lab) | Bacterial Virulence and T6SS / Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland) |
| Edward BAYER | The Cellulosome Complex Lab / The Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) |
| Dörte BECHER | Microbial Proteomics / University of Greifswald (Germany) |
| Oded BEJA (@BejaLab) | Environmental Genomics of Marine Microbes / Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) |
| Sigal BEN-YEHUDA (@sigalby) | Social Microbiology, Bacterial Sporulation / Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) |
| Aude, BERNHEIM | Microbiology and Genetics / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Mervyn BIBB | Molecular Microbiology / John Innes Centre (England) |
| Oliver BILLKER | Molecular Infection Medicine / Umeå University (Sweden) |
| Melanie BLOKESCH (@MBlokesch) | Molecular Microbiology / EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) |
| Antje BOETIUS | Deep Sea Ecology and Technology / Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany) |
| Elizaveta BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA | Diversity & Ecology of Thermophiles / Moscow University (Russia) |
| Axel BRAKHAGE | Molecular Biotechnology and Fungal Biology / HKI and Leibniz Institute (Germany) |
| Erhard BREMER | Molecular Microbiology / Philipps University of Marburg (Germany) |
| Roland BROSCH | Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Harald BRUSSOW | Clinical Microbiology and Virology / Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) |
| Carmen BUCHRIESER (@cbuch2) | Biology of Intracellular Bacteria / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Dirk BUMANN | Metabolism of Bacterial Pathogens / Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland) |
| Stephen BUSBY (@busbysjw) | Microbiology and Infection / University of Birmingham (England) |
| Gabriella CAMPADELLI-FIUME | Virology of Herpes / University of Bologna (Italy) |
| Emmanuelle CHARPENTIER (@manue_lab) | Infection Biology / Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (Germany) |
| Ilan CHET | Plant Pathology and Microbiology / Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) |
| Stewart T. COLE | Microbial Pathogenesis / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Jean-François COLLET | Bacterial Stress Responses / Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) |
| Guy CORNELIS | Bacterial Pathogenesis / University of Namur (Belgium) |
| Pascale COSSART | Bacteria-Cell Interactions / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Patrice COURVALIN | Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Antoine DANCHIN | Bacterial Genomics / Stellate Therapeutics, Institute Cochin (France) |
| Isabel DELANY | Molecular Biology and Bacteriology / GSK (Italy) |
| Victor DE LORENZO (@vdlorenzo_CNB) | Molecular Environmental Microbiology / National Center for Biotechnology (Spain) |
| Willem M. DE VOS | Microbial Ecology, Physiology & Genetics / Wageningen University (The Netherlands) |
| Christoph DEHIO | Bacterial Pathogenesis / Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland) |
| Petra DERSCH (@pdersch) | Microbial Pathogenesis and Infection Biology of Intestinal Pathogens / University of Münster (Germany) |
| Ulrich DOBRINDT | Microbial Genome Plasticity / University of Münster (Germany) |
| Nicole DUBILIER (@Chemosym) | Microbial Symbioses / MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany) |
| Leo EBERL (@leberl2) | Plant and Microbial Biology / University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Monika EHLING-SCHULZ | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Germany) |
| Dusko EHRLICH (@SDEhrlich) | Human Microbiome / Metagenopolis, INRAE (France) |
| Martin EMBLEY | Evolutionary Molecular Biology / Newcastle University (England) |
| Tobias ERB (@erblabs) | Metabolic Engineering, Microbial Biochemistry & Physiology / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany) |
| Jeff ERRINGTON | Bacterial Cell Biology / University of Sydney (Australia) |
| Alain FILLOUX (@FillouxLab) | Bacterial Pathogenesis & Molecular Bacteriology/ Imperial College London (England) |
| Patrick FORTERRE (@PatrickForterre) | Molecular Biology of Gene in Extremophiles / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Kevin FOSTER | Evolutionary Biology / University of Oxford (England) |
| Bärbel FRIEDRICH | Bacterial Metabolism / Humboldt University (Germany) |
| Geoff GADD (@GeoMBiol) | Geomicrobiology, Mycology, Environmental Biotechnology / University of Dundee (Scotland) |
| Francisco GARCIA–DEL PORTILLO | Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens / Centro Nacional de Biotecnología -CSIC (Spain) |
| Mikhail S. GELFAND | Bioinformatics / Russian Academy of Science (Russia) |
| Kenn GERDES | Bacterial Stress Response and Persistence / University of Copenhagen (Denmark) |
| Jean-Marc GHIGO | Genetics of Biofilms / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Philippe GLASER | Ecology and Evolution of Antibiotics Resistance / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Anne GLOVER (@AnneGlover_EU) | Molecular Microbiology / Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Werner GOEBEL | Bacterial Pathogenicity / University of Würzburg (Germany) |
| Friedrich GÖTZ | Microbial Genetics / University of Tübingen (Germany) |
| Uri GOPHNA (@ugophna) | Microbial Evolution and Microbiome / Tel Aviv University (Israel) |
| Isabel GORDO (@gordoisabel1) | Evolutionary Genetics of Bacteria / Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) |
| Lone GRAM | Bacterial Eco-Physiology And Biotechnology / Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) |
| Simonetta GRIBALDO | Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution / Institut Pasteur (France) |
| Angelika GRÜNDLING | Cell-Wall Biogenesis of Bacterial Pathogens / Imperial College London (England) |
| Jörg HACKER | Molecular Infection Biology / German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany) |
| Otto HALLER | Virology / University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany) |
| Wolf-Dietrich HARDT | Salmonella Pathogenesis / ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Ian HEAD | Synthetic Biology and Bioeconomy / Newcastle University (England) |
| Michael HECKER | Microbial Physiology and Molecular Biology / University of Greifswald (Germany) – retired |
| Jürgen HEESEMANN | Medical Microbiology / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) |
| Franz X. HEINZ | Virology / Medical University of Vienna (Austria) |
| Regine HENNGE | Bacterial Biofilms and Stress Response / Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) |
| Anat A. HERSKOVITS | Molecular microbiology, ”-omics” and bioinformatics / Tel Aviv University (Israel) |
| Birgitta HENRIQUES-NORMARK (@BHN_Lab) | Clinical Microbiology / Karolinska Institute (Sweden) |
| Jay HINTON (@jay_salsa) | Functional and Comparative Genomics / University of Liverpool (England) |
| Niels HØIBY | Bacteriology / University of Copenhagen (Denmark) |
| David HOLDEN | Bacteriology & Infection / Imperial College London (England) |
| David HOPWOOD | Microbial Natural Products / John Innes Centre (England) |
| Angela IVASK | Microbial Genetics / University of Tartu (Estonia) |
| Urs JENAL (@urs_jenal) | Signaling in Bacterial Infection / Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland) |
| Mike JETTEN (@msmjetten) | Environmental Biotechnology / Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) |
| Stipan JONJIC | Viral Immunology / University of Rijeka (Croatia) |
| Bo Barker JØRGENSEN | Geomicrobiology and Marine Microbial Ecology / Aarhus University (Denmark) |
| Regine KAHMANN | Molecular Phytopathology / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany) |
| Anna KARNKOWSKA | Eukaryotic Microbiology / University of Warsaw (Poland) |
| Roy KISHONY (@RoyKishony) | Antibiotic Resistance / Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) |
| Maia KIVISAAR | Bacterial Genetics and Evolution / University of Tartu (Estonia) |
| Boris KLEMPA | Virology / Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia) |
| Éva KONDOROSI | Symbiosis and Molecular Ecology / Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary) |
| Hans-Georg KRÄUSSLICH | Virology / University Hospital Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Mart KRUPOVIC | Archaeal Virology / Institut Pasteur (France) |
| Oscar P. KUIPERS (@OscarKuipers1) | Molecular Genetics, Host-Microbe Interactions, Protein Engineering / University of Groningen (The Netherlands) |
| Marcel KUYPERS | Biogeochemistry / MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany) |
| Rob LAVIGNE | Gene Technology / KU Leuven (Belgium) |
| Sarah LEBEER | Microbiologist & Bioengineer / University of Antwerp (Belgium) |
| Marc LECUIT | Infection / Institut Pasteur (France) |
| Hilary LAPPIN-SCOTT (@lappinscott) | Microbial Biofilms / Cardiff University (Wales) |
| Iñigo LASA UZCUDUN (@lasa_lab) | Microbial Pathogenesis and Biofilms / Navarrabiomed Biomedical Research Center (Spain) |
| Bruno LEMAÎTRE | Insect Immunity, Insect Endosymbionts and Entomopathogens / EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) |
| Ruth LEY (@RuthLeyMicro) | Microbiome Science / MPI for Developmental Biology (Germany) |
| Daniel LOPEZ (@lopesrra) | Molecular Infection Biology / National Center for Biotechnology (Spain) |
| Julius LUKEŠ | Parasitology and Molecular Biology of Protists / Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) |
| Ines MANDIC-MULEC | Environmental Microbiology / University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) |
| Didier MAZEL (@amazeld) | Bacterial Genome Plasticity / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Thomas MEYER | Bacterial Infection and Human Carcinogenesis / MPI for Infection Biology (Germany) |
| Tâm MIGNOT | Bacterial Development and Cell Biology / CNRS-Aix Marseille University (France) |
| Itzhak MIZRAHI | Microbiome / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) |
| Francisco J. M. MOJICA | CRISPR / University of Alicante (Spain) |
| Soren MOLIN | Microbial Biofilms / Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) |
| Cesare MONTECUCCO | Bacterial Neurotoxins, Tetanus & Botulism / University of Padua (Italy) |
| Colin MURRELL | Environmental Microbiology / University of East Anglia (England) |
| Franz NARBERHAUS (@FranzNarberhaus) | Molecular Microbiology / Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) |
| Staffan NORMARK | Microbial Pathogenicity / Karolinska Institute (Sweden) |
| Thomas NYSTRÖM | Cellular Aging and Protein Quality Control / University of Gothenburg (Sweden) |
| Fergal O’GARA | Microbe-Host Interactions / University College Cork (Ireland) |
| Juan ORTÍN | Virology / National Center for Biotechnology (Spain) – retired |
| Albert OSTERHAUS (@AbOsterhaus) | Veterinary Virology / University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (Germany) |
| Paul O’TOOLE |
Microbial Genomics /University College Cork (Ireland) |
| Jörg OVERMANN | Microbial Ecology, Diversity & Systematics / DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig (Germany) |
| Csaba PAL | Systems Biology and Microbial Evolution / Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary) |
| Tracy PALMER (@proftracypalmer) | Protein Transport & Secretion, Membrane Proteins & Bacterial Cell Envelope / Newcastle University (England) |
| Julian PARKHILL | Microbial Genomics / University of Cambridge (England) |
| Vladimir PELICIC | Molecular Biology of Bacterial Pathogens / CNRS Aix-Marseille University (France) |
| José PENADES | Molecular Basis of Bacterial Virulence / Imperial College London (England) |
| Inês Cardoso PEREIRA | Bacterial Energy Metabolism / Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) |
| Andreas PESCHEL | Microbial Pathogenesis and Infectious Disease / University of Tübingen (Germany) |
| Jean-Claude PIFFARETTI | Medical Microbiology / Interlifescience (Switzerland) |
| Mariana Gomes de PINHO | Bacterial Cell Biology / NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal) |
| Mariagrazia PIZZA | Bacterial Vaccines, Bacterial Pathogenesis / GSK Vaccines (Italy) |
| Pavel PLEVKA | Structural Virology / Masaryk University (Czech Republic) |
| György POSFAI | Microbial Genome Engineering / Biological Research Center (Hungary) |
| David PRANGISHVILI | Viruses of Archaea / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Anthony PUGSLEY | Protein Secretion and Membrane Protein Assembly / Pasteur Institute (France) – retired |
| Miroslav RADMAN (@MRGentilly) | Molecular Biology / Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (Croatia) – retired |
| Paul RAINEY | Microbial Population Biology / MPI for Evolutionary Biology (Germany) |
| Juan Luis RAMOS | Industrial Biotechnology, Gene Regulation & Environmental Microbiology / Spanish National Research Council (Spain) |
| Alexander RAPOPORT | Physiology, Biochemistry and Metabolism / University of Latvia (Latvia) |
| Rino RAPPUOLI | Vaccinology / GSK Vaccines (Italy) |
| Félix A. REY | Structural Virology / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Giovanna RICCARDI | Tuberculosis Research / University of Pavia (Italy) |
| Ute RÖMLING | Multicellular Behavior in Microorganisms, Cyclic di-nucleotide signaling, Pseudomonas aeruginosa persistence / Karolinska Institute (Sweden) |
| Eliora RON | Bacterial Virulence & Regulation of Gene Expression / Tel Aviv University (Israel) |
| Eugene ROSENBERG | Myxobacteria and Environmental Microbiology / Tel Aviv University (Israel) |
| Ramon ROSSELLÓ-MÓRA (@ramonibus) | Taxonomy and Molecular Microbial Ecology / Spanish National Research Council (Spain) |
| Thomas RUDEL | Microbial Pathogenesis and Infectious Disease / University of Würzburg (Germany) |
| Maja RUPNIK | National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food (Germany) |
| George SALMOND | Genomics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology / University of Cambridge (UK) |
| Philippe SANSONETTI | Bacterial Pathogenesis and Microbiota / Pasteur Institute (France) |
| Bernhard SCHINK | Microbial Ecology and Limnology / University of Konstanz (Germany) |
| Karl-Heinz SCHLEIFER | Taxonomy and Microbial Ecology / Technical University of Munich (Germany) |
| Christa SCHLEPER (@Archaea_Vienna) | Archaea Ecology and Evolution Group / University of Vienna (Austria) |
| Peter SEBO | Molecular Biology of Bacterial Pathogens / Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) |
| Victoria SHINGLER | Bacterial Signal-Sensing and Integration / Umeå University (Sweden) |
| Andriy SIBIRNY | Yeast Biotechnology / National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine) |
| Virginijus ŠIKŠNYS | Protein-DNA Interactions and CRISPR / Vilnius University (Lithuania) |
| John J. SKEHEL | Virology / Francis Crick Institute (England) |
| Geoffrey L. SMITH | Virology / University of Cambridge (England) |
| Lotte SOGAARD-ANDERSEN | Bacterial Development and Differentiation / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany) |
| Dominique SOLDATI-FAVRE | Biology of Obligate Intracellular Parasites / University of Geneva (Switzerland) |
| Rotem SOREK (@SorekLab) | Microbial Genomics / Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) |
| Victor SOURJIK | Microbial Networks / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany) |
| Nicola STANLEY-WALL (@bacteriacities) | Bacterial Biofilms / University of Dundee (Scotland) |
| Bärbel STECHER | Microbial Pathogenesis and Infectious Disease / LMU Munich (Germany) |
| Noam STERN-GINOSSAR | Virology / The Weizmann Institute of Scienc (Israel) |
| Marc STROUS (@marc_strous) | Microbial Ecology and Energy Bioengineering / University of Calgary (Canada) |
| Sebastian SUERBAUM (@SuerbaumS) | Medical Microbiology / Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (Germany) |
| Rudolf K. THAUER | Biochemistry of Anaerobic Microorganisms / MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany) |
| Kenneth N. TIMMIS (@KennethTimmis) | Biotechnology and Molecular Microbiology / Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) |
| Tone TØNJUM (@tonetonjum) | Genome Dynamics and Microbial Pathogenesis / University of Oslo (Norway) |
| Athanassios TSAKRIS (@ATsakris) | Virology and Immunology / University of Athens (Greece) |
| Athanasios TYPAS | Systems Microbiology / EMBL Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Bernt Eric UHLIN | Bacteria-Host Interactions / Umeå University (Sweden) |
| Gisou F. VAN DER GOOT (@gvdgoot) | Cell and Membrane Biology / EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) |
| Jan Roelof VAN DER MEER | Environmental & Evolutionary Microbiology, Microbiome Studies / University of Lausanne (Switzerland) |
| Jan-Willem VEENING | Genomics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology / University of Lausanne (Switzerland) |
| Antonio VENTOSA | Extremophilic Microorganisms / University of Sevilla (Spain) |
| Miguel VICENTE | Bacterial Cell Cycle / National Center for Biotechnology CSIC (Spain) |
| Jörg VOGEL | RNA Biology / Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (Germany) |
| Waldemar VOLLMER | Bacterial Cell Wall / Newcastle University (England) |
| Julia VORHOLT | Microbial Physiology, Microbial Biochemistry, Plant Microbiomes / ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Michael WAGNER (@MichiWagner4) | Microbial Ecology / University of Vienna (Austria) |
| Sun Nyunt WAI | Medical Microbial Pathogenesis / Umeå University (Sweden) |
| Robin A. WEISS | Viral Oncology / University College London (England) |
| Friedrich WIDDEL | Anaerobic Aquatic Bacteria / MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany) – retired |
| Paul WILLIAMS | Molecular Microbiology / University of Nottingham (England) |
| Karina XAVIER (@KarinaXavierLab) | Bacterial Signal Transduction, Quorum Sensing, Bacterial-Host Interactions, Microbiota / Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine: GIMM (Portugal) |
| Arturo ZYCHLINSKY | Cellular Microbiology / MPI for Infection Biology (Germany) |
Former EAM Fellows
- Milton S. DA COSTA, Microbiology of Extreme Environments / University of Coimbra (Portugal)
- Margarita SALAS, Madrid
- Agnes ULLMANN
- Hans-Dieter KLENK
- Josep CASADESÚS, Bacterial Genetics / University of Seville (Spain)
- César NOMBELA, Molecular Microbiology and Bioethics / Menéndez Pelayo International University (Spain)
EAM Fellows Book
Download our EAM fellows book published in 2021 which features the most current research and some general information about our Fellows.
The European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) comprised of our esteemed fellows. Below you will find a full list of all EAM Fellows: