Télesphore Sime-Ngando is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). His research in environmental microbiology focuses on the food webs of aquatic ecosystems. It has resulted in several hundred scientific publications (books, book chapters, literature reviews, articles, and communications) and has allowed him to supervise around fifty doctoral and postdoctoral students. He was Director of the Microorganisms, Genome and Environment Laboratory (LMGE, UMR CNRS-UCA 6023, https://lmge.uca.fr/#/admin) for 10 years (2012-2021), and then seconded as the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) Representative in Central Africa (2023-2025). He has served as a Project Manager in Ecology and Environment for the CNRS and the Auvergne Region (France), founder and head of research teams and federations, member of two sections of the National Committee for Scientific Research (CoNRS, France) and of a sectoral scientific section of IRD. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Aquatic Ecology (Springer-Nature, https://link.springer.com/journal/10452), a member of the Evaluation Committee of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a member of the International Scientific Committee of the European Institute for Marine Studies, and a member of the African Research Advisory Board. For more information, please visit his personal webpage: https://lmge.uca.fr/annuaire/m-telesphore-sime-ngando#/).