Expert committee and funding body memberships and activities:

1. Ad hoc reviewer – German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
2. External peer-reviewer – The French National Research Agency (ANR), France
3. Ad hoc international reviewer – The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF), Denmark
4. Ad hoc international reviewer – The National Science Centre (NCN), Poland
5. Ad hoc international reviewer and independent expert – The ERA-NET Coordinating Action in Plant Sciences (ERA-CAPS), seventh framework program for Coordinating Action in Plant Sciences of the EU (nominated by the National Call Coordinator of Germany, German Research Foundation, DFG)

Ad hoc reviewer of international journals:

1. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek–Journal of Microbiology (Springer)
2. Archives of Microbiology (Springer)
3. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (BioMed Central)
4. BMC Genomics (BioMed Central)
5. BMC Microbiology (BioMed Central)
6. Canadian Journal of Microbiology (NRC Research Press)
7. Chemical Society Reviews (RSC)
8. European Journal of Soil Biology (Elsevier)
9. FEMS Microbiology Ecology (Wiley)
10. Frontiers in Plant Science (Frontiers, Switzerland)
11. Fungal Biology (Elsevier)
12. Fungal Diversity (Springer)
13. International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI Publishing, Basel, Switzerland)
14. Journal of Biotechnology (Elsevier)
15. Journal of Natural Products (ACS Publication)
16. Marine Drugs (MDPI Publishing, Basel, Switzerland)
17. Microbial Ecology (Springer)
18. Microorganisms (MDPI Publishing, Basel, Switzerland)
19. Molecules (MDPI Publishing, Basel, Switzerland)
20. Mycological Progress (Springer)
21. New Phytologist (Wiley)
22. Organic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC Publishing)
23. Phytochemistry (Elsevier)
24. Phytochemistry Reviews (Springer)
25. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (Elsevier)
26. PLoS ONE (PLOS)
27. RSC Advances (RSC Publishing)
28. Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier)
29. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
30. Trends in Biotechnology (Cell Press)