Assoc. Prof. Nikos Chorianopoulos graduated from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of Agricultural University of Athens in 2002. He completed his PhD thesis in Food Microbiology at the Science Department of Agricultural University of Athens in 2007. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratories of Prof. G.-I. Nychas (LMBF, AUA) and Prof. I. Sofos (Center for Meat Safety and Quality Food Safety Cluster, Animal Sciences Dept, Colorado State University, USA). He worked for approximately twelve years (2011-2022) as a Researcher at the Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products of Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DIMITRA (formerly NAGREF). In May 2022, he was elected Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Biotechnology of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of Agricultural University of Athens in the field of 'Food Microbiology & Emerging Food Processing Technologies'. He has worked on more than fifty (50) research projects in twelve (12) of them as Coordinator/Scientific Responsible. His research work focuses on microbiology and food safety, the use of natural antimicrobial compounds, modern technologies in food preservation, probiotic foods, biofilm disinfection strategies within the food industry, olive fermentation, the use of modern analytical methods in Food Microbiology, in Blockchain technologies, IoT technologies, etc. He has published seventy nine (79) scientific articles in SCI journals with an Impact Factor – IF (SIF: 361.267, IF/publication: 4.573, h-index: 33 with 3809 citations, Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/ authid/detail.uri?authorId=8931822000), two (2) scientific articles in journals outside SCI (Google Scholar Citation Index database), four book chapters (4), one hundred and seventy five (175) presentations at international conferences, forty-five (45) presentations at national conferences and seven (7) other publications. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor in 2 SCI journals.