Ivan Couée, alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now ENS Paris-Saclay), is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Plant Sciences (Ecosystems-Biodiversity-Evolution Institute, University of Rennes, Brittany, France), specialised in the molecular and signaling mechanisms of nutrition-development-stress response integration in higher plants. His fundamental research on molecular regulations of stress responses has led him to investigate diverse biological models (mammals, plants, microorganisms). He has been the leader of successive Plant Stress research groups and co-directed the Ecosystems-Biodiversity-Evolution Institute over its transition from traditional botany and zoology to molecular and genomic ecology and environmental sciences. He has published over 100 articles, book chapters and conference papers that were cited over 4000 times, with a corresponding h-index of 30 (Google Scholar). His work is published in various high impact journals, such as Ecology Letters, Trends in Plant Science, PNAS, EMBO Reports, Plant Physiology and New Phytologist, and he is the co-inventor of patents in the field of phytoremediation. Prof. Ivan Couée has been involved in numerous French and international projects and developments. He is the author of a textbook of cellular and molecular biology (De Boeck editions) for graduate and post-graduate students, and the editor of the "Plant Abiotic Stress Signaling" book in the Methods in Molecular Biology series (Springer Nature).