Dr. Youssef Khamis is a Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Egypt. He obtained his B.Sc. in 2002 of Agriculture Sciences, Plant Pathology at Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt. In 2007, he obtained his M.Sc. in Integrated Pest Management of Mediterranean Fruit Tree Crops at CIHEAM-MAIB, Italy. In 2011, he got his PhD in Plant Protection Curriculum: Integrated Crop Protection from Bari University Aldo Moro, Italy. Also, he had a Postdoc position at Department of Agronomy, Londrina State University in Brazil. He published many research articles in peer reviewed in highly impactful scientific journals in the field of phytopathology and microbiology. He has membership and contributes to several professional societies and editorial board member for several international journals such as Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection (JPDP), Journal of Plant Pathology (JPP) and Folia Horticulturae (FH). According to Scopus database, he has 17 h-index and 756 total citations and he collaborated with 98 co-authors from different countries (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=37022005300).