Dr. Elena Popova is the Head of the All-Russian Collection of Plant Cell Cultures at the Institute of Plant Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. She completed her PhD in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry in 2006 and has worked on plant biodiversity conservation projects as a PostDoc at the Chungbuk National University (2007–2009), National Agrobiodiversity Center, (2009–2011), and Korea Forest Research Institute (2011–2012), Republic of Korea. As a Research Associate at the University of Guelph, ON, Canada (2013–2016), she co-supervised the construction of new in vitro experiments and cryobanking at the facility of the Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation, and she developed conservation methods for medicinal and endangered plant species. At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany (2016–2018), she worked as a Genebank Platform Scientists to strengthen the research and operations for clonal crop conservation at the CGIAR international genebanks. Dr. Popova has published over 70 research and review papers; her research interests include Plant Biodiversity Conservation, Cryobiology, Biotechnology, in vitro cell and tissue cultures, the stress response, and adaptation to low temperatures.