Glen D'Souza is an assistant professor in the Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics and the School of Molecular Sciences. He leads the Microbial Ecosystems Laboratory at ASU. He studies how bacterial interactions shape the functioning of microbiomes that are crucial for planetary health. Before ASU, he was a senior scientist in the Microbial Systems Ecology group (co-led by Martin Ackermann and Olga Schubert) at ETH-Zurich and EAWAG in Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to my work at ETH-Zurich and EAWAG, he was a doctoral researcher in the Experimental Ecology and Evolution group led by Christian Kost at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. His undergraduate training was at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, India, where he earned a MSc in microbiology.