Prof. Dr. Henning Sommermeyer is currently a visiting professor at the Department of Health Sciences of the Calisia University Kalisz, Poland. He studied biochemistry at the University of Hanover, Germany. He specialized in immunology and graduated at the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, at the Medical High School of Hanover. From 1990 to 2010 he worked for different pharmaceutical companies in Germany, Portugal, Poland and the Czech Republic. His scientific work is focused on pro- and synbiotics as prophylactics and therapeutics.
Prof. Dr. Jacek Piątek is Professor and Head of Department of Health Sciences of the Calisia University Kalisz, Poland, where he was the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences for a year. He studied at the faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Poznań, Poland. He worked at the Department of Physiology, University of Medical Sciences in Poznań, Poland. From 2011-2013 he was a visiting professor at the Institute of Rural Medicine in Lublin. His research interest focuses on gut microbiota, probiotics and synbiotics.