**About the Editor**

**Pierre-Yves Lozach** obtained his PhD degree in Virology at the Pasteur Institute. In 2007, he joined the lab of Ari Helenius (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), first as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow and then as a group leader. In 2012, he was appointed as tenure track Assistant- Professor at INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier in Canada, and in 2013, granted the CellNetworks Chair in Virology at the University of Heidelberg. He is now group leader, heading the laboratory 'Cell Biology of Arboviral Infections' with dual affiliation to both the University Hospital Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany) and the National Institute of Agricultural Research and Environment (Lyon, France).
