Athanasios C. Pappas graduated (2002) with a BSc in Agricultural Sciences from the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece). He was then awarded a PhD from the University of Glasgow (UK) in 2006. The research conducted during his PhD studies was on poultry nutrition (broiler breeders and maternal nutrition). He spent one year (2008-2009) as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Agricultural University of Athens. In 2010, he was appointed Lecturer. In 2016, he became Assistant Professor at the Department of Nutritional Physiology and Feeding at the Agricultural University of Athens. His has published scientific work that includes, but is not limited to, 73 peer-reviewed papers (published in international scientific journals), 1 book, 8 book chapters, and 77 conference presentations.