Professor Stig Uggerhøj Andersen received his PhD degree in 2004 from Aarhus University, Denmark and then worked in a local biotech start-up company before taking up a two-year postdoctoral position focusing on stem cell biology and cell cycle regulation in Jan U. Lohmann’s group in Detlef Weigel’s department at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany. He then returned to Aarhus University, where his group focuses on legume genetics and genomics powered by next-generation sequencing.

Recent work includes establishment of a large insertion mutant collection for legume genetics (https://lotus.au.dk/) and investigation of natural diversity and adaptation in Lotus japonicus, white clover and faba bean. Faba bean is a major focus area and Prof. Andersen acts as partner or coordinator in a number of international faba bean projects (NORFAB, ProFaba, IMFABA, FabuLOX, N2CROP) and coordinated the faba bean genome consortium (www.fabagenome.dk). For all three legumes, Prof. Andersen’s research group studies interactions with soil microbes, exploiting natural diversity and single-cell sequencing to decipher mechanisms and optimize interactions.

Prof. Andersen acts as scientific advisor to SymbioMatch, bringing in his extensive experience with quantitive analysis of legume-rhizobium interactions.