Rolf Allner, agricultural engineer with an M.Sc. in crop science, has over 10 years of experience in field trials. As CEO of the accredited bioanalytical laboratory GOBIO, he represents a consortium of trial-tec, a field testing CRO, and MicroEcoLab at the University of Warsaw, Poland (microecolab@uw.edu.pl), where he is preparing his PhD thesis with Prof. Dziewit. The consortium aims to find practical solutions to the challenges associated with the use of microorganisms in agriculture and to develop new strategies for sustainable farming. His current research focuses on the use of diazotrophic endophytic microorganisms.