Veronika N. Pishchik is a senior researcher in the Lab of Microbial Technology of the All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology and in the group of ecological microbiology of the Agrophysical Research Institute. She graduated from Saint Petersburg State University. She has a PhD in microbiology. Her current and previous research interests include microbial biodiversity, plant growth promotion bacteria (PGPB ), plant–bacteria interaction, and abiotic stresses (heavy metals, pesticides, and other pollutants).