Ionut RACZ (42 years), Senior Researcher at the Agricultural Research and Development Station Turda (since 2010), within the Wheat Breeding Department, and Assistant Lecturer at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Genetics (since 2020). I am co-author of six winter wheat cultivars, one spring wheat cultivar, and one spring oat cultivar. In addition, I am the principal author or co-author of more than 80 scientific papers, including 32 indexed in ISI databases. I have served as project director for two research projects funded by the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development: ADER 2019–2022, Project No. 2.1.1 – “Breeding winter and spring wheat cultivars intended for the regions of Transylvania, Moldova, and western Romania, suitable for bread-making, with high yield potential and international competitiveness”; ADER 2023–2026, Project No. 1.1.2 – “Development of the breeding program and creation of facultative and spring wheat cultivars”. My areas of expertise include plant genetics and breeding, plant biology, cell biology, genetic engineering, plant pathology, and plant physiology.