Dr. Vangelis Economou graduated from the Veterinary School of Thessaloniki in 1999. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 2006 from the Medical School of the University of Ioannina. He has studied at the University of Bonn, the Central Public Health Laboratory Service (UK), and the University of Copenhagen. From 2013 onwards he has been working in the Department of Hygiene and Technology of Food of Animal Origin at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Food Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health. He has authored 32 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 6 chapters in internationally published books, and 14 announcements in international conferences. He has been an external reviewer for 42 international scientific journals. His current research interests involve meat and seafood hygiene, with an emphasis on the control of foodborne pathogens and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.