**V´ıctor Quesada**

Dr. Quesada is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH), ´ Spain. He completed his undergraduate studies in Biology at the Universidad de Alicante, Spain, in 1993 and received his Ph.D. at the UMH working in the isolation and characterization of salt-tolerant mutants in the plant model system *Arabidopsis thaliana* (1999). He moved then to the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich, UK, from 2000 to 2003, to work in flowering time regulation in Arabidopsis. After finishing his post-doc, he moved to the Bioengineering Institute of the UMH to work in leaf morphogenesis. He became an Assistant Professor (December 2003) and an Associate Professor in 2009 at the UMH. Since 2009, his independent research activity has been focused on the functional characterization of Arabidopsis nuclear genes involved in organellar gene expression to shed light on the understanding of their roles in plant growth, development and adaptation to abiotic stress.
