Bill received his PhD from Lund University and has since held professorships at both Lund University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Since 2006, he serves as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. He is also Honorary Professor at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität and guest professor at SLU.Between 2014 and 2020, he served as Vice President of the entire Max Planck Society. Bill has received numerous national and international awards, most recently The Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy for Agriculture and Forestry and The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a member of several academies, among them The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Through Bill, we have access to extensive international networks, along with his broad experience in taking scientific research to the commercial market.