Marketta Rinne has received her MSc and PhD degrees from University of Helsinki, Finland. She started working at Natural Resources Institute Finland (formerly MTT) as a research scientist in 1994 and as research professor in 2009. Her main interests are dairy cow nutrition and closely linked with that, feed production and preservation. Recently she has been involved with silage microbiome research, novel uses of green biomass such as green biorefineries as well as sustainability of dairy production. She is also the coordinator of the official Finnish feed evaluation activity. Marketta Rinne has attended all International Silage Conferences since 1996 and chaired the organizing committee of XVI ISC in Finland in 2012.