Dr. Lourdes Gómez-Gómez is a full professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and co-leader of the Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology group. She completed her PhD in Plant Development and Senescence at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Valencia. As a postdoc researcher, she joined Prof. T. Boller's laboratory in Basel, Switzerland, to study plant receptors involved in PAMP recognition. In 2001, she moved to UCLM to study carotenoid metabolism in saffron, and in 2003 she was awarded a Ramón y Cajal contract. Her research interests include carotenoids, apocarotenoids, planta biotechnology, and secondary metabolism.