Robert Czajkowski is a microbiologist with a molecular biology background, working on the interactions between bacteria/fungi and plants; ecology and bacterial population dynamics during different infection stages, interspecies communication between plants and plant pathogens, lytic bacteriophages infecting plant pathogenic bacteria. He is a full professor at the Laboratory of Biologically Active Compounds, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG, University of Gdansk, Poland. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Biology, University of Leiden in 2011. His specialties include instrumental analysis, microbiology techniques, cell culturing, clinical diagnostics, chromatography separation techniques, and bioinformatics techniques.