Professor Stig Uggerhøj Andersen received his PhD degree in 2004 from Aarhus University, Denmark. After a two-year postdoctoral stay 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 returned to Aarhus University, where his group focuses on legume genetics and genomics powered by next-generation sequencing. 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). Prof. Andersen’s research group also studies legume interactions with soil microbes, exploiting natural diversity and single-cell sequencing to decipher mechanisms and optimize interactions.