Prof. Nicolae Corcionivoschi has a B.Sc. degree in Animal Biotechnology and an M.Sc. in Animal Nutrition from King Michael I University of Life Sciences in Timisoara, Romania. In 2005, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Edinburgh for work on bacterial electron transport proteins. He is currently the Head of Food Microbiology at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and an elected member of the Royal Society of Biology. His research interests include bacterial virulence, isolation and testing of novel pre and probiotics and the development of novel technologies for more efficient detection of foodborne pathogens.