Djamel Drider holds a PhD in Food Science with a focus on microbiology, biochemistry and microgenetics from the Institut Agro Montpellier (1993). He then completed postdoctoral training at the Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del CSIC (Madrid, Spain) and at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New-York, USA). During his postdoctoral training, Dr. Drider acquired a solid experience in molecular microbiology. He first studied the regulation of genes involved in citrate uptake in lactic acid bacteria (Spain) and the regulation of genes involved in antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus/B. subtilis. In 2002, he was recruited as Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Nantes-Atlantic College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Engineering, and in 2011 he moved to the University of Lille as Full Professor of Microbiology, where he developed and is developing intensive research on bacteriocins for academic and applied purposes.