**About the Editor**

**Dimitrios Stagos** is an Assistant Professor (tenure) of "Animal Physiology—Toxicology" at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the University of Thessaly, Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. in "Biology" from the Aristotle University, Greece, M.Sc. in "Human Genetics" from the University of Leeds, U.K. and Ph.D. in "Biochemistry and Biotechnology" from the University of Thessaly, Greece. During his work as a researcher in the School of Medicine at Penn State University, U.S.A., he discovered that plant polyphenols protected the SP-A protein of the human lung surfactant from environmental pollutant-induced oxidative stress. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Colorado, Denver, U.S.A., where he purified—for the first time—the human xenobiotic ALDH1B1 enzyme and demonstrated its role in ethanol metabolism, in addition to identifying a new transcript variant of the ALDH4A1 gene (submitted to the GENBANK database). He was appointed as a faculty member of the University of Thessaly in 2010. In 2017, he was then awarded the Certification of the "European Registered Toxicologist" by EUROTOX. Since 2002, his main research interests have been the antioxidant, chemopreventive and anticancer activity of plant polyphenols and other natural bioactive natural compounds as well as the adaptive physiological mechanisms of human organisms to oxidative stress. He has co-authored 1 textbook chapter, 74 articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 70 abstracts in practicals of conferences. His publications have been cited 2216 times ("h-index": 27; Scopus). He has supervised more than 50 postgraduate theses and undergraduate dissertations. He is the owner of a patent regarding biofunctional animal feed. He has participated in several research grants as co-ordinator or partner. In 2019, he received a EUR 400,000 research gran<sup>t</sup> from the Greek Secretariat of R&T for a 3-year investigation into the antioxidant and anticancer properties of bioactive compounds from algae species of the Aegean Sea. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the *Antioxidants* and *Toxicology Reports* journals. He is a member of the Greek Association of Biosciences, the Greek Society of Toxicology, the Greek Geotechnical Chamber and the European Society for Free Radical Research.
