Prof. Alois Jungbauer is the Co-founder, Executive Editor and Editor in Chief of Biotechnology Journal. Prof. Jungbauer serves as the Head of the Laboratory for Protein Technology & Downstream Processing and the Christian Doppler Laboratory of Receptor Biotechnology. He is working in the field of bioengineering of proteins, plasmids and viruses, with special focus on expression, downstream processing and characterisation of large biomolecules. He has extensive experience in the expression of proteins in yeast, E.coli and mammalian cells. He has developed a multi protein expression/purification system for expression of unknown gene products and subsequent purification in a high throughput mode. Prof. Jungbauer serves as a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at World Trade Group, Ltd. He is a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Novasep Holding SAS. As a proliferate researcher, he has more than 250 publications on protein expression and bioseparation, 15 patents and 12 book contributions. He is a member of editorial boards from numerous journals in the area of biochemical engineering. Prof. Jungbauer received his PhD in Food Technology and Biotechnology in 1986 from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.