**About the Editor**

**Dirk Tischler** (Prof. Dr.) has run the Microbial Biotechnology Group at Ruhr-Universitat¨ Bochum, Germany, since 2018. He studied applied natural science at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, and obtained a diploma in 2007 and Dr. rer. nat. in 2012. From 2012 until now, he has been a group leader with a main interest in identifying novel enzymes and describing their properties for general and applied purposes.
