Dr. Eirini Sarrou is currently a Researcher at the Institute of Plant Breeding and  Genetic Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter. She received her PhD in 2013 from AUTH University and since 2017 has been an independent researcher for IPB&GR–HAO DEMETER. She has experience in the assessment of parameters affecting the secondary metabolism of plant species such as cherries, apples, Salvia sp., Sideritis sp., Origanum sp., and Citrus sp., among others. Her scientific interests are focused on advanced metabolomics (metabolite profiling using UPLC-MS/MS, HPLC-DAD, and GC-MS-FID) as a tool for quality assurance and breeding of plants, and lately on their combination with transcriptomics to identify and characterize functional genes for molecular breeding.