Food and Environmental Virology - Meet the Editor in Chief - Prof Albert Bosch

Albert Bosch (Full Professor of Microbiology, UB) has around 40 years of experience in Virology and has published around two hundred peer-reviewed articles on enteric viruses in scientific journals, as well as complete books. 

He is a member of numerous scientific committees, notably the scientific committee of the Spanish Food Safety Authority, the European Standardization Committee (CEN) of the EU on standardization of molecular methods for virus detection in foods; he also belongs to the scientific panel Food and waterborne diseases of the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC). 

Albert has also acted as Chairman of the Astrovirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). He is the the President of the Spanish Society for Virology and the President of the Assembly of the International Society for Food and Environmental Virology; he is the former President of the Water Microbiology section of the Spanish Society for Microbiology. He is the Chief Executive Editor of “Food and Environmental Virology" and Editor of “Journal of Applied Microbiology”, “Letters in Applied Microbiology” and “Viruses”.