Matthew Sullivan, PhD

Matt Sullivan is a Professor of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at Ohio State University, a co-founder of the UA Ecosystem Genomics Institute, co-director of OSU’s Infectious Disease Institute Microbial Communities Program, Founding Director or OSU’s Center of Microbiome Science, in leadership for OSU’s EMERGE Biology Integration Institute, a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator, a Kavli Fellow, a Beckman Mentor, a senior editor at Nature Publishing Group’s ISME Journal, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. His research program studies viruses that infect microbes in their natural settings using an experimental and informatics toolkit he has pioneered, and now applies to the oceans, soils, humans, and extreme environments.