Prof. Dr. Younes Rezaee Danesh is the faculy member at the Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Iran. He had several visiting research periods in different countries in different years. He was also worked at the Soil, Fertilizer and Water Resources Central Research Institute in Ankara, Turkey as a leader of a HORIZON 2020 project funded by the EU during the years 2018-2021, and now as the visiting scientist on a project funded by TUBITAK in Van, Turkey from January 2022. His main scientific interests are mycology, plant pathology, and biological control with a special focus on symbiotic (mycorrhiza-, and mycorrhiza-like) as well as plant growth promoting fungi, and special emphasis on their application as eco-friendly bio-fertilizers and bio-stimulators in plants and for inducing plant resistance against different abiotic and biotic stresses. He had a series of international collaborations with Iranian, Russian, Finnish, US, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Indian, Thai, Austrian, Turkish, and Hungarian partners. He has a list of highly ranked international scientific publications with more than 600 citations. He is also involved as tne permanent member in different national and international scientific societies. He is also acting as a member of the Editorial Board in several Journals. During the scientific career, he received numerous awards as the Best Researcher and Best Scientist.