Athanasios Tsakris is currently a Professor and the Head of the Department of Microbiology in the Medical School of the University of Athens, Greece. He graduated as an MD from the Medical School of the University of Athens and completed his training in Medical Microbiology in London, UK, at the North Middlesex Hospital and the Central Public Health Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a Fellow in Medical Microbiology and Virology at the Royal College of Pathologists (London, UK). He has spent sabbatical leave and served as a visiting professor at the Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in the Division of Infectious Diseases (Boston, MA). He is an evaluator of grant applications for several organizations worldwide and a member of the Editorial Boards of several high-impact international scientific journals. Dr. Tsakris is also a member of the European Committee on Infection Control (EUCIC)'s advisory board and has previously served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Βoard (SAB) for the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) in the European Union. Please check intended meaning retained.