Andreas Katsiotis obtained a BSc in Agriculture (Horticulture Honors Scholar) and a MSc in Horticulture from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was awarded a PhD in Plant Genetics and Plant Breeding from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993). After obtaining his PhD he spent two years at the John Innes Centre as a Marie Curie fellow. In 1997 he was elected as a Lecturer at the Genetics Laboratory of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, and then moved to the Plant Breeding and Biometry Laboratory in the same University, where he served till 2011 as an Associate Professor. In 2012 he joined the Cyprus University of Technology as a Full Professor in the Department of Agricultural Science, Biotechnology and Food Science, where he served as Chairman from 2015 till 2020. He is currently Dean (from July 2020) at the Faculty of Geotechnical Sciences and Environmental Management at CUT. His research interests deal with cereals (mainly oats and durum wheat) and olive (but has also worked with other crops as well), studying genetic diversity, cytogenetics, inter- and intra-specific hybridization, molecular markers, genome organization, evolution, genotype field evaluation under stressed environment, and genetic resources. During his career he has supervised a number of MSc and PhD students. He has co-authored more than 30 papers in ISI journals, a number of book chapters and numerous presentation in international and national congresses. He has coordinated or been PI in EU funded projects and national research projects. He has also participated in a number of trips collecting germplasm. He has served as Chair of the Panhellenic Plant Breeding and Genetics Society and was country representative in EUCARPIA. Since 2004 is the Avena Working Group Chairman of ECPGR. In 2018 he was elected as the First President of the Cypriot Libraries Cooperation.