Prof. Dr. Reza Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa is a professor at the Department of Plant Protection at Shiraz University. He qualified as a full professor in 2016. He received his Ph.D. and MSc in Plant Pathology at Shiraz University, and his BSc in Plant Protection. He has been awarded scholarships with SCRI (now: The James Hutton Institute), UK, and the Centre for Phytophthora Science and Management, Murdoch University, Australia. With over 25 years of experience in national and international plant pathology projects, he is an expert in molecular phylogenetics, diagnostics, and detection of plant pathogenic oomycetes and ascomycetes. He served as the Vice Dean for academic affairs and graduate studies from 2014 to 2018 at the School of Agriculture, Shiraz University.