Luis Herrera-Estrella, Ph.D. is the Director of the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance and is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Plant Genomics at Texas Tech University. He is one of the top plant molecular biologists in the world and his research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that allow plants to cope with a continuously changing environment. In particular, he has studied the two fundamental processes of molecular responses to light as a source of energy and a developmental signal, and nutrient availability. In 2003, he was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and earned the distinction in 2015 as one of the 100 most influential people in biotechnology by Scientific American. He previously served as the director and full professor of the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO) in Guanajuato, Mexico. A holder of more than 15 patents, Herrera-Estrella has published more than 180 research papers and 47 book chapters and other reviews while having delivered more than 200 presentations on his work.