Michael Fink, the Vice-President of PhageEU, is also the CEO of two companies, Phage Technology Center GmbH and FinkTec GmbH.

He is a Chemist and a Chemical Engineer by education with more than 20 years of experience in the area of farm to fork food safety with focus on product development and regulatory strategy in the food, milk, beer and beverage industry as well as in the dairy and life stock farming sector.

With this background and a passion for applied science, in 2013 he started to explore the use of bacteriophages as new approach to overcome existing problems in the above-mentioned fields.

His diverse expertise and commitment to lead interdisciplinary teams allows him to develop novel products and solutions, while always keeping a way for market authorisation in mind.

In his leadership within the cooperate boundaries, Michael Fink is convinced that there is demand for collaboration of the entire industry, legislators and all other stakeholders to bring bacteriophage technology, in all its different application facets, into a broad use.

Michael envisages a big contribution of bacteriophage technology to improve food safety, to make feed safer, to reduce food waste and to provide an alternative strategy to reduce antibiotic use in different life stock applications.