Dionisios Gasparatos is Professor of Soil Science in the Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. He received MSc in Applied Environmental Geology from The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and PhD in Soil Science from Agricultural University of Athens. His teaching and research focuses on pedology, soil fertility and plant nutrition, soil mineralogy and chemistry with environmental applications. He is author of more than 65 papers and chapters published in high impact international journals and books, including Environmental Chemistry Letters, Science of Total Environment, Catena, Chemosphere, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science with over 1300 citations, and is naturally a reviewer and editorial board member of several international journals as well as an editor of textbooks for graduate students. His current scientific interests are related to the role of redoximorphic features on the mobility and bioavailability of several nutrients and potentially toxic metals in soils. Included in 2023 Stanford University’s (Single Year) Top 2% Scientists List