Dr Jean-Pierre Gangneux is Professor in Medicine, specialized in mycology and parasitology at the Rennes Teaching Hospital and Rennes University, France. He has expertise in diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections due to Candida, Aspergillus and other fungi. The main topic of his research is the complex host-microorganism interplay and environmental reservoirs of human pathogens (UMR INSERM U1085 – IRSET – Université Rennes). He is the General Secretary of European Confederation of Medical Mycology since 2017, the former President of the French Society for Medical Mycology (2012-2021). He is head of the ECMM Excellence Center in Medical Mycology in Rennes teaching hospital, head of the associate-laboratory of the French National Reference Center on Chronic Aspergillosis, is principal investigator of different research projects, and he organized multiple national and international meetings and published more than 230 articles in scientific journals.