Prof Jesko Koehnke is Professor of Natural Product Biotechnology and managing director of the institute of Food Chemistry at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. After graduating from the biochemistry program at Leibniz University, Hanover, Germany, he obtained a M.A., M.Phil. and PhD from Columbia University, NY, USA, while working on the structural biology of synaptic adhesion. In 2010, he joined the group of Prof. James Naismith, FRS (then U. St Andrews, UK), funded by a Wellcome Trust VIP and a German Research Foundation (DFG) post-doctoral fellowship. During that time, he investigated the biosynthesis of the ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) cyanobactins. In 2014, Prof. Koehnke received an Emmy Noether Fellowship (DFG) to start his independent career at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (Germany) in 2015. His work focused on structural biology and natural product (RiPP) biosynthesis. In 2020, he moved to the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow (UoG) as a Reader before being promoted to Professor of Biological Chemistry in 2022. His work continued to focus on the biosynthesis of natural products.