Didier Stien is deputy director of the Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes (Banyuls-sur-mer, France). He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Marseilles in 1997 under the direction of Prof. Michèle Bertrand and David Crich (University of Illinois at Chicago at that time). After post-doctoral training in Prof. Steven Weinreb's group at Penn State University, he joined the CNRS in 1999. From 2003 to 2011, he contributed to the CNRS installation project in Cayenne. Since then, he has been developing natural product research inspired by the observation of networks of species. He is the author of 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 11 books or book chapters, and 6 patents.