Patrick Butaye is a STEM-professor at City University’s Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences. He graduated with a degree in Veterinary Medicine from Ghent University in 1994. In 2000, he obtained his PhD from the same university. Following this, he worked as a Senior researcher and head of division at the former Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Institute in Brussels until 2015. In 2006, he became Adjunct Professor at Ghent University and still holds that position. In 2015, he started a Professorship at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, whereafter, in 2023, he started at City University of Hong Kong. He is also a senior research fellow at the One Health Research Foundation, Miramar, Florida. He is a member of the Executive Board of the European Study Group on Veterinary Microbiology (ESGVM) as part of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). He is Editor in Chief of the journal Veterinary Sciences (MDPI), a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Veterinary Research, Editor for PlosOne, and Associate Editor for Frontiers in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy, as well as Guest Editor for Frontiers in Veterinary Science. His research topics mainly include microbiology, antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, and molecular epidemiology of bacteria.