**About the Editor**

## **Santiago Signorelli**

Santiago Signorelli was born in 1987 in Uruguay. In 2005, he started his degree in Biochemistry at Universidad de la Republica (UdelaR, Uruguay). In 2007, he began research in academia and ´ took a teaching and research position at a laboratory of computational chemistry in the School of Sciences. In 2009, he graduated from UdelaR doing his honours project in Molecular Biology, and the same year he took a new position as teaching and research assistant of Biochemistry in the School of Agronomy (UdelaR). In the same institution, Signorelli took postgraduate studies related to drought stress response in plants. In 2015, Signorelli took a postdoctoral position at Universidad the Western Australia (UWA, Australia), where he studied the role of oxygen and light in grapevine bud dormancy. In 2017, he got a fellowship to performed another postdoc about gene editing in banana Cavendish at KU Leuven (Belgium). In 2019, returned to Australia to work as a researcher in a series of projects related to abiotic stress and plant development. From 2021, Signorelli is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry from the School of Agronomy (UdelaR) where he is consolidating his research group "Food and Plant Biology". Signorelli's group aims to understand how plants respond to environmental stimulus and use that knowledge to generate improved crops and optimise agricultural practices.
