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Dr Dimitris Tsaltas is a Professor of the Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science at Cyprus University of Technology. He has a BSc in Agricultural Sciences and an MSc in Plant Protection from the Agricultural University of Athens. He gained his PhD from Imperial College London in Molecular Plant Pathology and continued his postdoctoral training at the University of Connecticut (USA) in Molecular Microbiology. He is a founding member of the Cyprus University of Technology. He also worked at the Agricultural Research Institute in Nicosia (Cyprus) as a Research Advisor within the Crop Protection Department. He served as a Delegate and Expert of Cyprus to the Program Committee of KBBE and he was a Domain Committee Member in the Food & Agriculture Domain of COST. He leads the group of Agricultural Microbiology and Biotechnology. The group is actively engaging in microbial ecology investigations in agroindustrial fermentations in foods and food waste. The group also engages in exploring biosafety problems in the food chain starting from the farm, such as mycotoxins and human pathogens on fresh fruits and vegetables. Additionally, Dr Tsaltas team works on biosensors development, food innovation and new product development. Dr Tsaltas group is also offering an extensive array of services to the local food and agriculture industry through consultation and analytical methods unique in Cyprus for various microbiology issues (microbial IDing, microbial genotyping, detection of wine spoilage yeasts etc).