Kalliope K. Papadopoulou is Professor in Plant Biotechnology at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, University of Thessaly. She has a first degree in Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens. She is in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology since October 2005. Before that she was an Associate Researcher at the Hellenic Agricultural Research Foundation and a Marie-Curie Grant Holder at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K. Her research investigates how plant specialized metabolites shape biological interactions and organismal function, with a particular emphasis on triterpenes as emerging regulators of plant growth, stress responses and plant–microbe communication. Using genome editing, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and multi-omics approaches, her group seeks to uncover, engineer and harness metabolic diversity for sustainable applications in agriculture, biotechnology and health. Her group also investigates plant-associated interactions, including endophytic fungi, symbiotic associations, and complex multipartite and multitrophic networks. Research focuses on the molecular and genetic mechanisms, signaling pathways, and environmental drivers that shape the establishment, function, and outcomes of beneficial plant–microbe interactions. She has a long-standing experience on developing microbial inocula as biopesticides and biostimulants, combining genetics- and omic-based approaches to study plant physiology and plant biochemistry responses to rhizosphere dynamics to molecular microbiology aspects and agronomy parameters affecting the multipartite interactions in various environmental contexts. Prof Papadopoulou has published >100 peer-reviewed articles (>6500 citations) and has coordinated and participated in numerous European and national research projects, funded by the EU and national funding bodies and by agro-industries,  including Marie Skłodowska-Curie, PRIMA, Horizon Europe, and EFSA initiative. She has acted as the Deputy Director of the OMIC-ENGINE Hellenic Research Infrastructure on Synthetic Biology in the Agrofood Sector. Prof Papadopoulou has also participated as a member of the Advisory Board for the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE), Belgrade, Serbia. She is a member of the Advisory Editors Board of New Phytologist and contributes regularly to peer reviewing and research evaluation panels. She is currently the Deputy Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology.