Dr. Danai Gkizi works in Department of Wine, Vine and Beverage Sciences of the Univesity of West Attica (Athens, Greece). She has a degree in crop science from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. She obtained her PhD in plant pathology from the same university in 2019 with subject “The role of epigenetic inheritance in the biological control of Vetricillium dahliae” and received a Ph.D. grant from HFRI. She worked as a postdoc researcher on the role of epigenetic inheritance in the biological control of plant pathogens (2019–2021) and she participated in several research projects on the following topics: biological control of plant Pathogens, grapevine trunk diseases and bunch rots, molecular plant pathogen interactions, and the role of epigenetic inheritance in the plants’ immune responses. She is the guest editor of the Special Issue "Biocontrol of Plant Pests and Pathogens" in MDPI. Her scientific output includes 17 publications, corresponding to 139 citations (h-index 7) (Scopus, 8 December 2023).