Akos T Kovacs

Photo by Wout Overkamp[1] from 2012.

Akos T Kovacs

• Current position: Professor of Microbiome Ecology at Leiden University, the Netherlands (2023-)
• Previous positions:
• Professor of Bacterial Physiology and Genetics at the Technical University of Denmark (2017-2025, part time from 2023)
• Group leader at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany (2012-2017)
• Habilitation (2016), PhD (2003)
• Contact: a.t.kovacs (AT) biology.leidenuniv.nl send mail

Research Interests

• bacterial biofilm development
• plant microbiome
• chemical ecology, secondary metabolites, lipoeptides
• B. subtilis, B. cereus, B. thuringiensis
• interaction of Bacilli and fungi
• evolution in biofilms
• microbial cooperation and competition
• phenotypic heterogeneity

Publications

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