My name is Xénia Pálfi. I'm working as an assistant research fellow (university researcher) since 2021 August at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, at the Food and Wine Research Institute (Eger, Hungary). I graduated as a Biologist B.S. in 2010, and as a Biologist M.S. in 2012. I started my Ph.D. studies in the Kálmán Kerpely Doctoral School of the University of Debrecen (Hungary) in 2015 and was absolved in 2018. I am currently about to earn my doctoral (Ph.D.) degree. Previously, I worked as an assistant research fellow (university educator and researcher) at the Eszterházy Károly University (Food and Wine Research Institute, Eger, Hungary) between 2016-2021. I was employed as an assistant research fellow at the Eszterházy Károly College (Department of Plant Physiology, Eger, Hungary), and the Károly Róbert Kollege (Research Institute of Viticulture and Enology, Eger, Hungary) between 2012-2016. My current research interests are grapevine disease management and physiology, and previously were plant physiology, and fungal diseases (corn, wheat). In 2013, I was awarded the Pro Scientia gold medal in the field of Biological Sciences. I am a member of the Society of Pro Scientia Medalists and the Hungarian Society for Microbiology.