Aliki Kapazoglou is a Senior Researcher at the Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Dimitra (ELGO-Dimitra), Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops and Viticulture (IOSV), Lykovrysi, Athens, Greece. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, USA and a PhD degree in Biochemistry from the Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Department of the University of Georgia, Athens Georgia, USA. She held Post-Doctoral and Research Fellow posts at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK, and the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, UK. She has been a Research Associate for the Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB) at the Centre of Research and Technology (CERTH), in Thessaloniki, Greece. Scientific areas of Interest include: Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms governing plant development, stress resilience, and crop adaptability to changing environments in the context of climate change in important crops (e.g. grapevine, olive tree); the effect of the microbiome on plant growth and stress resilience (50 publications, 1886 citations, h24). She is Associate Editor in“Frontiers in Plant Science”-Crop and Product Physiology" and Guest Editor in "IJMS-Genetic, Epigenetic and Microbiota Molecular Insights for Crop Resilience to Abiotic Stress in Times of Climate Change" and MC member of CostActions 22158 "Micropbiomes" and 24152 "EpiCrops"