Dr Spiros Vittas was born in Athens, Greece in 1980. He graduated from the School of Biology, University of Patras in 2002 and completed his master’s degree (MSc) in Applied Genetics and Biotechnology at the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2004. In 2010, he successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Genetic, molecular and phylogenetic study of the mitochondrial DNA of Silurus glanis (Siluriformes, Siluridae)” under Prof. ZG Scouras's supervision. From 2010 to 2015, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Chemistry of Heidelberg University (AG Nawroth Lab, Department of Medicine I and Clinical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Germany) supervising research programs related to diabetes, hyperglycemia, genetic diseases, and breast cancer. Since 2017, he has been certified by the European Board of Medical Genetics as a European registered clinical laboratory geneticist (ErCLG). He has so far 18 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and he has participated in more than 40 national and international conferences with oral and/or poster presentations. From May 2015 until now, he has served as Laboratory Director and Scientific Director in Genetics Diagnostic Laboratories in Greece.