Pedro Crous is professor in Fungal Biodiversity at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, where he is presently the group leader of the Evolutionary Phytopathology group at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute. His main research interests are fungal systematics (Dothideomycetes and Nectriaceae), the characterisation of fungal plant pathogens, and the evolution of host specificity. He is an editor or board member for numerous journals and has authored or edited several textbooks.