After his Biology studies at the Universidad de Alicante  (Spain), Jose Manuel Perez-Perez completed his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. J.L. Micol, at the neighboring Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, on the genetic analysis of leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana. He carried out his postdoctoral research with Prof. B. Scheres at Utrecht University  (The Netherlands), on the link between cell cycle regulators and root growth and development. Afterward, he came back to the group of Prof. J.L. Micol to work on leaf growth coordination from a Systems Biology perspective. Since 2019, he has been a Full Professor of Genetics at the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche. Their group aims to contribute to a better understanding of the genetic and environmental control of organ specification and growth. They are using a multidisciplinary approach that includes Molecular Genetics, Cell Biology, and Plant Physiology.