Aurelijus Burokas is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Biochemistry at the Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University. After obtaining a PhD in biomedicine at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, in 2013, he moved for his postdoc to J.F. Cryan’s laboratory at Cork College University, Ireland. Since then, he has been focused on the microbiota–gut–brain axis in brain disorders. In 2019, he moved to Vilnius University, Lithuania, as a senior researcher to lead three projects dedicated to microbiota–brain research. A. Burokas uses various laboratory animal models to investigate the role of the microbiota–gut–brain axis in ageing, Alzheimer’s disease, and Autism spectrum disorder.