Professor Sergey Shabala is a UWA Chair in Plant Physiology at the University of Western Australia and an inaugural director of the International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology at Foshan University (China). His area of expertise is plant stress physiology and mechanisms of their adaptation to harsh environmental conditions, such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, oxidative stress, and nutritional disorders. Over his research career, Sergey has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers and successfully supervised to completion 58 PhD students. He has been an ISI Highly Cited Researcher for the last eight consecutive years, with his work being cited over 48,000 times. He is a member of the editorial boards of nine international journals and is also Editor-in-Chief for Functional Plant Biology.