My name is Michiel Op De Beeck. I will be working at the Lund University as a post-doctoral researcher in the Microbial Ecology group under professors Anders Tunlid, Per Persson and Tomas Johansson. I will be working on the degradation of soil organic matter by ectomycorrhizal fungi in the “Molecular Interactions Controlling Soil Carbon Sequestration (MICCS)” research program.