Efstathios (Stathis) Giaouris has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece, 2008) and is currently an Associate Professor in Food Microbiology at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of the Aegean (Lemnos Island, Greece). He has published more than 60 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals (h-index = 27, Scopus), 9 chapters in international collective volumes, and has announced his work more than 100 times in conferences and workshops (including 25 oral presentations and 46 posters in international conferences). His research focuses on pathogenic bacterial biofilms, especially in terms of the risk of this inherent microbial lifestyle for food hygiene and safety, and their control using novel, cost-efficient, and sustainable methods (e.g., phytochemicals, quorum quenching approaches and bacterial postbiotics). SCOPUS ID: 14032869700; Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6019-5204