The main focus of his research is the investigation of various microbial interactions and the application of complex microbial communities in bioenergy generation, agriculture and environmental biotechnology. Gergely Maróti has co-written more than 130 peer-reviewed international publications (H-index: 39, ORCID: 0000-0002-3705-0461) in the fields of algal and microbial biotechnology and molecular microbiology. His main interest is the investigation of interkingdom microbial interactions with special emphasis on natural and synthetic algal-bacterial communities. Beside conducting fundamental research he has strong commitment and ability to transform basic scientific achievements into exploitable products. His research team combines the most recent high-throughput omics approaches with traditional microbiology and molecular biology ways as well as with cutting-edge bioinformatic analyses including read-based and genome-centric metagenome invetigations.