Dr. László Galgóczy received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Szeged and held temporary post-doctoral positions at several institutes prior to joining the Department of Biotechnology at the Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged in 2018, where he holds a permanent position now. During his PhD and postdoc studies he investigated antifungal proteins from Ascomycetes in several aspects. He habilitated in Biotechnology in 2020. In the last few years he participated in many ground breaking research projects, dealing with the mode of action, the structure, the biological role, heterologous expression and possible application of antifungal proteins. Several publications in international peer-reviewed journals have been published on this topic. Moreover, he disseminated his scientific work at several national and international meetings and conferences. He is author of 5 book chapters concerning the topic of antifungal proteins, detection of human pathogenic fungi and security sensitive microbes. He is (was) editorial board member of peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Galgóczy has trained BSc, MSc, and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.