Prof. Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos studied environmental sciences at the Department of Environment of the University of the Aegean, Greece. He obtained his Ph.D. degree on the relationship between biodiversity, fire, and ecosystem processes in the Mediterranean grasslands from the University of the Aegean in 2001. His postdoctoral research on the effects of biotope space on the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship wascarried out in the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and was funded from the European Science Foundation (LINKECOL program). He was elected to the position of Assistant professor in the Department of Environment, University of the Aegean in 2004, Associate professor in 2011 and Professor of Functional Ecology in 2018. He is an Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (2019-2022). His research focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem processes, functional plant ecology, community ecology, biodiversity conservation, and conservation policy. He has served as President of the Hellenic Ecological Society (2012-2014), and as a member of the National Committee for the Protected Areas Management of Greece (2010-2020). He is member of the Group of Specialists on the European Diploma for Protected Areas, as an expert from Greece (2020-2024). He has participated in 16 national and European research projects. He serves as a member of editorial board of six journals and referee for more than 50 journals. He has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8374-4392), has co-authored the Greek version of the book entitled A Primer of Conservation Biology, and has edited in Greek famous international textbooks on Ecology, Environmental Science, and Biostatistics.