Prof. Orla O’Sullivan (Teagasc; Food/Analytics – PI; female; FWCI – 2.84) is a senior research officer at Teagasc. She is a computational biologist focusing on elucidating the microbiome from a variety of ecosystems including soil, food, rumen and human gut. Of particular interest is how food and food ingredients shape the human gut microbiome both in healthy and diseased cohorts. Orla is a principal investigator with APC Microbiome Research Ireland Centre. Orla has >200 publications and >18,000 citations. Orla was listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in the cross-field category of research, placing her in the top 1% of researchers worldwide in 2019. She was awarded Research Ireland’s Early Career Researcher of the Year in 2019 following a nomination from VistaMilk. Orla is Associate Editor with the Microbiome and Frontiers suite of journals and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous journals. Examples of impact include:

• A partner in a commercialisation grant which led to the establishment of a spin-out company, Seqbiome, which launched in July 2020. Orla is currently a Scientific Consultant with the company. Seqbiome offers next-generation sequencing and associated data analysis on a commercial basis.