Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Applied Microbiology in 2021

Rigorous peer-reviews are the basis of high-quality academic publishing. Thanks to the great efforts of our reviewers, Applied Microbiology was able to maintain its standards for the high quality of its published papers. Thanks to the contribution of our reviewers, in 2021, the median time to first decision was 20.5 days and the median time to publication was 46 days. The editors would like to extend their gratitude and recognition to the following reviewers for their precious time and dedication, regardless of whether the papers they reviewed were finally published:

Adam Kawalek	Jae-Ho Shin
Agnieszka Richert	Jan Bobek
Akiko Ogawa	Joanna Kaminska
Aleksandra Kocot	John O′Hagan
Alexa Ersilia	Jonathan Butler
Alexander Paukov	Karel Sedlar
Alina Pruss	Kateřina Petříčková
Amisha T. Poret-Peterson	Kathryn Kauffman
Anastasiia K. Kimeklis	Kirill Antonets
András Bánvölgyi	Ki-Sun Yoon
Andrea Cortegiani	Kristie Tanner
Andreas Beck	Lara Vimercatti
Andrew D. Cartmill	Leontina C. Gurgu
Andrey A. Belov	Louisa Ludwig-Begall
Ángel Emilio Martínez De Alba	Mara Gyöngyvér
Anna Cieślińska	Maria Alexandrovna Lebedeva
Anna Jarosz-Wilkołazka	Maria Pilar Cortés
Anna Szczerba-Turek	Mariusz Cycoń
Antonella Canini	Masataka Oda
Ashutosh P. Dubey	Matteo Calcagnile
Astrid Mayr	Matthias Eder
Babak Pakbin	Michela Verni
Bastian Hornung	Mohit Bibra
Beniamino Cenci Goga	Myron Christodoulides
Blaženka Kos	Nicoleta Ungureanu
Catherine A. O′neill	Nishida Takehiro
Chichun Ho	Obed Hernandez-Gomez
Corneliu Tanase	Patrícia Branco
Daniel Schindler	Patryk Tarka
Danuta Drozdowska	Pieter Van Dillewijn
Darija Lušić Vukić	Przemyslaw Siejak
Dariusz Kokoszyński	Ramachandran Chelliah
Davor Želježić	Renata Tisi
Devin Stauff	Rianna Murray
Dhananjaya Kulkarni	Robert D. Roghair
Dorota Górniak	Roberto Fernandez-Lafuente
Dorota Papciak	Rosa Alduina
Edyta Adamska	Rositsa Stefanova Denkova-Kostova
Eleonora Nicolai	Saad El-Din Hassan
Enrico Novelli	Sabina Purkrtová
Esin Semih	Sabrina Cadel-Six
Evelio Ramirez Miquet	Sanjay Swarup
Ewa Dudzińska	Sanna Sillankorva
Farkas Edit	Sara Linden
Fátima Milhano Santos	Sebastian Przemieniecki
Filip Šupljika	Serajus Salaheen
Franklin Wang-Ngai Chow	Seung Wook Kim
Giovanni Gallo	Sophie Blat
Giulia Pignataro	Stanisław Pietr
Hae Kyung Lee	Stanley Brul
Hasan Ejaz	Stefan Shilev
Hasan Nazik	Tatiana Korshunova
Horacio Bach	Vojtěch Sedláček
Hourei Oh	Wendy Mok
Igor Łoniewski	Wendy Stone
Ioannis A. Giantsis	Xuan Mu
Ivan Krešimir Svetec	Ying Chen Lu