Dr. Michael F. Eckerstorfer works as a Senior Scientific Officer in the Department of Land use and Biosafety at Umweltbundesamt Wien (Environment Agency Austria), Vienna, Austria. He completed his Ph.D. studies in Molecular Genetics from the University of Vienna. His work focuses on the environmental risk assessment and monitoring of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and issues related to the risk management of biotechnology applications involving the environmental release of GMOs. He serves as a peer reviewer for several scientific journals and has served as guest editor for special issues of Plants and Frontiers in Genome Editing.