Dr. Anca Macovei is currently an Assistant Professor of Plant Physiology at the Department of Biology and Biotechnology ‘L. Spallanzani’, University of Pavia, Italy. She received a Master’s degree in Plant Genetic Engineering from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) in 2005. She completed her Ph.D. studies in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Pavia in 2011. From 2013 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Genetic Transformation Laboratory, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), USA.