Marcos Egea-Cortines received his Licenciatura  in Biology from the Universidad de Murcia in Spain  in 1987. He obtained his PhD Degree in Biology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, in 1992. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, between 1993 and 1995 and at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding in Köln, Germany, between 1995 and 1999. In 1999 he moved to Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, where he was promoted to associate professor of genetics in 2003 and to full professor in 2017. He was visiting professor at Purdue University (USA) in 2011.  His research topics mainly include developmental genetics, plant biotechnology, transcriptomic and metabolic analysis, plant cell cultures, bioreactors and genetic screening. He is a member of the steering committee of the Spanish Society of Genetics and the Spanish Society of Biotechnology. He is associate editor of Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Plant Sciences and PLOSONE. He has been a GIAN fellow of the Indian government to teach plant genome editing and gene silencing in plants.