Dr. Fábio M. DaMatta in an agronomist and received his doctorate in Plant Physiology in 1995 from the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, where he is currently a Full Professor of Plant Physiology in the Plant Biology Department. Dr. DaMatta is the author or co-author of more than 100 research articles and book chapters, most of which address the ecophysiology of the coffee tree. He served as a member of the Editorial Review Board of Tree Physiology (2004-2005) and was both the Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology (2006-2008) and the International Coordinator and Consulting Editor of the Advances in Plant Physiology series (Scientific Publishers). He is currently a consulting member of the Brazilian Consortium for Coffee Research and Development as well as other scientific agencies in the Brazilian government and abroad. Dr. DaMatta serves as an Associate Editor of Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology and an Academic Editor of PLoS ONE, and he is the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Plant Physiology of the Federal University of Viçosa. His current H-index is 40 (Web of Science) / 55 (Google Scholar).