Marnix Medema is an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He obtained a BSc. in Biology (Radboud University Nijmegen, 2006) and an MSc. in Biomolecular Sciences (University of Groningen, 2008). In 2013, he completed his PhD in the groups of Eriko Takano and Rainer Breitling, also at the University of Groningen. During his PhD he spent time in the lab of Michael Fischbach at the University of California, San Francisco, as a visiting research fellow. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the group of Frank Oliver Glöckner at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, he joined Wageningen University in 2015. His group develops and applies computational tools to understand bacterial, fungal and plant natural product biosynthesis from a genomic perspective.