Leon Dicks received a Ph.D. in microbiology in 1989 and a D.Sc. in Microbiology in 2023. He is a member of the New York Academy of Science. He served on the Advisory Board for Probiotics (Copenhagen, Denmark), is Chief Editor of the South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture, and serves on the editorial board of seven ISI-rated journals. He collaborates with local and international scientists in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Denmark, Japan, and the USA, and serves as a consultant to many South African-based companies. He has filed ten patents. He has 265 publications with 11195 citations and an h-index of 61 (Scopus, 24 November 2023).