Professor, Vice-Rector Johanna Björkroth nominated as an AEM Scientific Editor


Professor, Vice-Rector Johanna Björkroth has been nominated as Scientific Editor of the Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is the world’s oldest and largest life science membership organization. Society has been established in 1899, nowadays there are more than 39.000 members worldwide.

The Society publishes journals, of which Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) is the most cited journal in the fields of microbiology, biotechnology and applied microbiology, with more than 86.000 citations. It has an Impact Factor of 3.678 according to the 2012 Journal Citation Reports®.

The term of the Scientific Editor is for 5 years. AEM emphasized professor Björkroth’s wide expertise not only in the area of food microbiology, but also tangential areas such as microbial physiology or the molecular microbiology. Björkroth’s preceding job as an Editorial Board Member was highly acknowledged, she started as an Editorial Board Member in 2002.

Professor Björkroth is leading a research group focusing on cold-tolerant lactic acid bacteria and enterobacteria causing food spoilage. The research group belongs to the Centre of Excellence in Microbial Food Safety Research (MiFoSa). She has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific series and several book chapters, and supervised several postgraduate studies (PhD Thesis). Since 2008, she has served as a Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki in charge of research, researcher training and innovation affairs.