Prof. Dr. Jean-Jack M. Riethoven is a faculty member at the Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His research interests focus on bioinformatics, genomics, and computational biology, with core expertise in genome assembly, structural variation analysis, and the integration of multi-omics data. He has led and participated in large-scale genome projects (e.g., crop and microbiome genomics) supported by funding bodies including NSF, USDA, and NIH and has developed widely used computational tools for complex genome analysis.