Anastasios S. Siomos is a professor of Vegetable Crops at the Department of Horticulture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies as a Postgraduate Scholar at the same University, and since 1995 he has served at all academic levels. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Vegetable Crops, Plant Nutrition, and Postharvest Physiology. During his tenure at the University, he has supervised 119 undergraduate, 9 postgraduate, and 6 doctoral students undertaking their theses that were successfully completed. His research interests include both pre- and post-harvest physiology of vegetables. He has delved into issues related to the degradation of asparagus spears quality both pre- and post-harvest and he is the holder of an international patent ‘Method and apparatus for preventing violet colouration of white asparagus after harvest’. He has published 104 papers in the Scopus database and 2 book chapters, and his published work has 1,795 citations, with an h-index of 26. He has participated in 19 international conferences (5 as an invited speaker). He served as Guest Editor in the special issue of the journal Horticulturae on the topic ‘Hydroponics in Vegetable Production’, in which 13 papers were included. He has been a reviewer of 108 papers in 35 international journals and 17 in international conferences.