Andreana N. Assimopoulou is a Professor of “Applied Organic Chemistry – Natural Products” at the School of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). She received her Diploma of Chemical Engineering from the School of Chemical Engineering, AUTh, MSc in “Management of Productive Systems” from the Industrial Management Division, School of Mechanical Engineering, AUTh and PhD from the School of Chemical Engineering, AUTh (2001). After a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship granted by the States Scholarships Foundation, she was elected Lecturer of the School of Chemical Engineering, AUTh, Greece. She is the co-author of 80 scientific publications that have gained more than 5390 citations (h-factor 32). She has participated in many International Conferences and received many invitations for submitting research articles and reviewing articles and presentations/seminars while being granted several awards. She has developed a lot of collaborations with industries, R&D companies, institutes, individual researchers and universities, and she has participated in several research projects, both national and EU ones. Her research runs through the whole backbone of the discovery and development of innovative drugs. She coordinates the “Natural Products Research Centre of Excellence-AUTh”, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, which the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has established since 2015.