馬克·貝利，英國自然環(huán)境研究理事會(huì )戰略合作伙伴——生態(tài)與水文中心前執行主任（2011-2023年）。獲博士學(xué)位后，于伯明翰大學(xué)從事梅毒致病性分子遺傳學(xué)研究。1987年，在生態(tài)與水文中心牛津分部的病毒學(xué)與環(huán)境微生物學(xué)研究所創(chuàng )立分子微生物生態(tài)學(xué)研究組，并于2003年至2011年間先后擔任該中心所長(cháng)、生物多樣性科學(xué)主任。其現任職務(wù)包括：盧森堡科學(xué)技術(shù)研究院科學(xué)顧問(wèn)委員會(huì )主席、英國普利茅斯海洋生物學(xué)協(xié)會(huì )理事等。作為微生物生態(tài)學(xué)領(lǐng)域權威學(xué)者，他致力于分子遺傳學(xué)技術(shù)的開(kāi)發(fā)與應用，系統研究：微生物群落動(dòng)態(tài)的底層機制、生境調控的基因表達規律、微生物組功能活性、水平基因庫（抗性組）的進(jìn)化關(guān)聯(lián)性等領(lǐng)域。發(fā)表論文逾200篇學(xué)術(shù)論文，并拓展至生物地球化學(xué)循環(huán)、功能多樣性及分子生態(tài)學(xué)應用研究，揭示微生物在生態(tài)系統服務(wù)維系中的進(jìn)化驅動(dòng)力與區域適應性機制。其學(xué)術(shù)貢獻與榮譽(yù)包括：國際微生物生態(tài)學(xué)會(huì )（ISME）執行委員會(huì )成員、會(huì )刊《ISME Journal》創(chuàng )刊主編、2021年獲頒中國政府友誼獎。

Professor Mark J. Bailey OBE FAAM, FRSB, Executive Director (retired) of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (2011-2023) a strategic partner for the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). After his PhD he studied the molecular genetics of syphilis pathogenicity at Birmingham University. |Then in1987 founded the Molecular Microbial Ecology group at the Institute Virology & Environmental Microbiology, CEH-Oxford, before his appointment as Director and then Science Director Biodiversity at CEH (2003-11). His current roles, beyond ISAC for CREAS, are that of trustee for the Marine Biology Association, Plymouth UK and chair of the Science advisory Board, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. He holds honorary positions and as served on national and international panels and advisory committees across the diverse fields of the environment sciences. He is recognized for his contribution in the development and application of molecular genetics to study the underlying principles of microbial community dynamics, habitat regulated gene expression, the functional activity of communities (microbiome) and the evolutionary relevance of the horizontal gene pool (resistome) articulated in over 200 publications. Related research interests include biogeochemical cycling, functional diversity and the wider application of molecular ecology in the environmental sciences to understand the driving forces of evolution and local adaptation to better define the contribution that microbes play in sustaining and delivering ecosystem services. He was a founding Editor in Chief of the International Society Microbial Ecology Journal a member of the ISME executive committee.