Pilar Prieto (Ph.D. in Biology) is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and a member of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She graduated from the University of Córdoba in 1998 where she was later awarded her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in 2002. Her main research focus is meiosis for plant breeding purposes using cytogenetics and confocal microscopy tools. Specific topics are the use of biotechnological tools for plant meiosis studies to promote interspecific recombination in cereals, chromosome manipulation in cereals to facilitate introgression of desirable agronomic traits in crops (mainly in wheat) from related wild species, and the study of genome organization and nuclear architecture in plants, among others. She collaborates with the University of Córdoba, where she delivers lectures for the Master in Biotechnology, and has also served on the CSIC Life Sciences Committee since November 2018.