Ioannis Ganopoulos received his BSc degree in agriculture from the University of Thessaly (2000-2005), his MS in plant breeding and plant physiology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2005-2007), and his PhD in plant breeding from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008–2013). He has been awarded a Heraclitus PhD scholarship by the European Social Fund and the Hellenic National Fund. His main research interests are plant molecular breeding, plant population genetics and genomics, genetic diversity, DNA barcoding, and molecular markers. His recent scientific interests include epigenetics, DNA methylation, and transcriptomic analysis for molecular breeding purposes. He has participated in more than 15 research projects, one of them being a competitive European project. He has been a co-worker in national/international projects, and he is an Editor for the Frontiers in Plant Science journal.