Professor, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen.

Dr. Thomas Bjarnsholt is professor at the Costerton biofilm Centre (SUND-UCPH), the head of Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory at Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology (RH-KMA) and the founder of the “Biofilm Test Facility”. His research output includes 215 scientific publications (published or In Press) from 2005 to present in peer reviewed international journals and books. Bjarnsholt is interested as to how bacteria initiate biofilms in the human body and why the immune defense seems to fail both in the initial infection and later in the chronic infection.