Bruno Pot made a PhD in microbiology at the University of Gent, Belgium. In subsequent postdocs he performed research on lactic acid bacteria. In 1997 he joined the science department of the company Yakult as science manager Benelux. He worked as Research Director at the Institut Pasteur in Lille, France, from 2001 till 2016. During that time he was also Director of Business Development at the bioinformatics company Applied Maths NV and Food Microbiology Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His major research topics have been bioinformatics, lactic acid bacteria, probiotics, bacteria-host interaction and health claim substantiation. Since November 2016 Bruno is back with Yakult as Science Director for Europe. Bruno Pot is member of the Taxonomic Subcommittee for Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium and related taxa, former ISAPP Board member, former president of the Pharmabiotic Research Institute (PRI; currently VP), Narbonne, France, Board member of LABIP and Chair of the Board of ILSI-EU. He authored or co-authored >250 articles and >20 book chapters. More details on https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruno-Pot.