Wolfram Brück studied microbiology in the USA and the UK. After his Ph.D. he joined Arla Foods before becoming a scientist at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. Moving back to Europe in 2006, Dr. Brück became the director of the Centre of Marine Biotechnology in Letterkenny, Ireland. In 2011, he joined Nestlé’s Food and Health Microbiology group at the Nestlé Research Center before joining the Institute of Life Sciences of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in 2014. Most recently Dr. Brück has been elected president of Swiss Food Research, the largest innovation network in the Swiss agro-food space.