Dr. Vasileios Fotopoulos is Associate Professor inStructural and Functional Plant Biology and head of the CUT Plant StressPhysiology Group at Cyprus University of Technology. His main scientificresearch focuses on the study of nitro-oxidative signaling cascadesinvolved in the plant’s response to stress factors, with special emphasison the development of chemical, biological and nanotechnologicalpriming technologies ameliorating abiotic stress factors and promotingplant growth. In addition, he is studying plant secondary metabolismand antioxidant responses in fruit crops during ripening.