Prof. Beata Hasiów-Jaroszewska is a Professor (2021) and Chief of the Department of Virology and Bacteriology at the Institute of Plant Protection-National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland. She obtained a PhD and Habilitation in agronomy from the Institute of Plant Protection in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Her research topics mainly include plant viruses, genetic diversity, phylogenetic analysis, diagnostic methods, and subviral RNA particles.