Bart Keijser is Principal Scientist working within the Microbiology and Systems Biology team of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). His main field of expertise is oral and respiratory health and the role of our microbiome. In 2015 he was appointed as extraordinary professor Oral Systems Biology at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA). Bart has led multiple industrial consortia in innovation projects on novel strategies for the prevention of oral and respiratory diseased based on microbiota modulation.

Bart is trained as a molecular microbiologist at Wageningen University (NL). He obtained his PhD at the Leiden University (NL) and held two post-doctoral position in the field of applied microbiology at the Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam. In 2005, he joined the TNO Microbiology and Systems Biology group of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) in 2005.