Full Name
Dr Olaf Larsen
Job Title
Senior Manager Science
Company
Yakult Nederland B.V.
Speaker Bio
Olaf (1972) is heading the Science Department and is member of the Management Team at Yakult Nederland. He is also Assistant Professor (0.2 FTE) at the Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam. Olaf studied chemistry and obtained a PhD in biophysics.
His interests and passions are within the field of natural sciences, with a strong emphasis on the human microbiota and probiotics. Olaf is involved and dedicated to science-based marketing, setting up and managing research collaborations, the valorization of microbiota management, teaching, supervising (PhD) students, and the computational modeling of the human gut microbiome.
Olaf Larsen