Teerapong Buaboocha graduated with a B.Sc. in Botany from Chulalongkorn University and obtained his Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He started his career as a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, where he has since been appointed Associate Professor of Biochemistry. He has targeted his research on genomics and post-genomic analysis of plant stress responses. His current research interests focus on using genome-wide association and bulked segregant analysis to identify salt-tolerant genes from local Thai rice, transcriptome profiling, and a range of molecular approaches to investigate the mechanisms of signaling and responses to salt stress.