Vasileios Fotopoulos is a Professor in Structural and Functional Plant Biology and head of the CUT Plant Stress Physiology Group established in 2008. His main scientific research focuses on the study of nitro-oxidative signaling cascades involved in the plant’s response to stress factors. He has published more than 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals with an h-index of 44 (Scopus, February 2024). He currently serves as an Editorial Board member in Journal of Experimental Botany, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, BMC Plant Biology, Gene, Frontiers in Plant Science and five other journals. He has also been assigned to evaluate competitive research proposals from different countries (France, Belgium, Poland, Chile, Latvia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Israel, Qatar, Austria, Cyprus, Denmark), EU proposals (EUROSTARS), while he participated as Review Panel Member for COST Actions (EU) in the field of ‘Natural Sciences’ and FWO (BE) in Section ‘BIO1’. Finally, he has acted as examiner of MSc theses/PhD dissertations from Italy, South Africa and The Netherlands.