Dr. David Alors is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, Catholic University of Temuco, Temuco, Chile. He obtained a master’s degree in Aquaculture from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2010, and a PhD in Lichen evolution from Complutense University of Madrid in 2017. He also completed his postdoctoral studies in the Microalgal and Biotechnology Laboratory at Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sede Boker, Israel. In 2024, he established the Lichen Biology Laboratory as his research group at the Catholic University of Temuco. Dr. Alors’s research centers on fungal relationships with microalgae, including the lichen symbiosis and fungal pathogenesis of microalgae.