Filip Van Immerseel has a Masters in Bio-engineering Sciences (1999), a Masters in Laboratory Animal Sciences (2004) and received a PhD in Veterinary Medical Sciences in 2004, studying environmental triggers in the gut that influence Salmonella invasion. After a post-doc period, he was appointed as a Research Professor by Ghent University in 2008. Currently he is a Professor at the Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University in Belgium and heads a research group with more than 20 people that study host-bacterium interactions in the poultry gut.

Filip Van Immerseel currently has more than 200 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals, has written book chapters and edited books on Salmonella and Clostridium perfringens and is a well-known speaker at international events. He is the editor of the journal Avian Pathology and is involved in many international collaborative research networks, has a dozen patents and has out-licensed multiple gut health solutions to companies.