Dr Peter Janssen is a Principal Scientist leading the microbiology component of Lucidome Bio’s methane vaccine development pipeline. Peter is an AgResearch employee seconded to Lucidome Bio. Peter has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, and an academic staff member at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. He has been involved in New Zealand’s vaccine development programme since 2009. He was the Principal Investigator for the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium’s methane mitigation research programme from 2012-2021. He led the successful Global Rumen Census project that showed that rumen microbes are the same globally (published in 2016) and was also part of the team that developed New Zealand’s breeding programme for low methane sheep, for which he and the other team leaders were awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi Pickering Medal in 2023. Peter was the science advisor for the award-winning 2002 science documentary Alien Underworld. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed scientific papers.