Giovanni Vannacci, full professor of Plant Pathology at the Pisa University now retired, graduated (laurea) in 1973 in Agricultural Science. In about 40 years of activity, he has studied microfungi, both as plant pathogens and as biocontrol agents, publishing more than 350 papers, books, and books chapters. He has been visiting scientist in 1984 at the New York State Agricultural Experimental Station in Geneva (USA) and in 2015 at the Department of Genetics, Cordoba University (Spain), he has been Director of the Department of Tree Science and Crop Protection of the Pisa University, President of the Italian Phytopathological Society,Managing Editor of the Journal of Plant Pathology, and he is member of the Accademia dei Georgofili.