Dr. Anna Kourti is a Professor of Insect Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Athens, Greece. Her research mainly focuses on insect population genetics and biodiversity, insect molecular physiology, biology and genetics, molecular analysis and expression of environmentally related insect genes, transcriptomics, and metabolomics of insect diapause, circadian, and photoperiodic clocks. She is the author of many entomological publications in high impact factor peer-reviewed journals. She is a referee of a wide range of international peer-reviewed journals.