Dr. Francesco Grieco is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council (CNR), Lecce, Italy. He graduated from the Genetics Institute (University of Bari) in 1986 and completed his training at the Genetics Institute in the Biological Department of the University of Bari. He covered the role of permanent researcher at CeViCom from 1996 to 2002. His top fields of experience include molecular biology, plant virology, oenological microbiology, and heterologous gene expression in bacteria and yeast. His scientific activity is focused on three main research lines: investigating the mechanisms of glycerol import utilized by Saccharomyces cerevisiae; studying yeast and bacterial population dynamics during grape must and olive fermentations; and utilizing yeast expression systems to produce heterologous proteins of agro-industrial interest. Dr. Grieco was found to be in the top 1% of international authors in the field of research published on wine according to the ranking drawn up by the US website “ExpertScape”.