Markus Göker has published several hundreds of peer-reviewed papers together with several hundreds of distinct coauthors and was Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and received the Bergey Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Bacterial Systematics in 2023. He currently acts as principal investigator of three large-scale genome-sequencing projects, conducted as a collaboration between the DOE-JGI and the DSMZ, each targetting 1000 bacterial or archaeal type strains, particularly Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Rhodobacteraceae. He currently also acts as Secretary of the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) and contributes to its publications, particularly regarding the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), and as List Editor of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.