Konstantinos Vlachonasios is a Professor of Plant Molecular Physiology at the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Thessaloniki, Greece. He graduated in Plant Sciences from AUTh in 1992 and received his Ph.D. in Horticulture from Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI, USA, in 1999. He completed his Postdoc at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MSU in 2002. He has more than 20 years of experience working on plant biology, with research interests including plant molecular physiology, plant growth and development, climate change, and food security issues.