**About the Editor**

**Joachim Wink** (Dr.) completed his Ph.D. in 1985 at Frankfurt University. He then went to the pharmaceutical industry and started his career at the Hoechst AG where he was responsible for strain collection and specialized in the cultivation and taxonomic characterization of Actinobacteria and Myxobacteria. During this period, he was responsible for the strain library within the pharmaceutical research and a number of screening projects with Hoechst Marion Russel, Aventis and Sanofi. In the year 2005, he did his habilitation at the Carolo Wilhelma University of Braunschweig and in 2012, he went to the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig where he founded the working group of the strain collection with its focus on Myxobacteria. Here, he is now working on the isolation and taxonomic characterization of Myxobacteria and Actinobacteria as well as the analysis of their secondary metabolites with a focus on the antibiotic active ones. The Compendium of Actinobacteria on the homepage of the German Culture Collection is a permanent actualized working tool for people working with Actinobacteria, which was prepared by him. He has published more than 60 papers on secondary metabolites and the taxonomy of the producing microorganisms in reputed journals, a number of reviews as well as book chapters and more than 35 patents. He is a member of the editorial board of a number of international journals.
