Juan Cristo Luis Jorge is an outstanding biologist with a solid academic and research career. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Biology in 1998. Then, in 1999, he moved to the UK to earn his PhD, gaining a BBSRC pre-doctoral fellowship at the University of Reading. In 2004, he completed his PhD and returned to the Canary Islands. There, he joined the Macaronesia Agricultural Germobank project as a technician in 2005 and collaborated in research with the University of La Laguna (ULL) via employment contracts. In 2018, he became an assistant professor at ULL. He currently leads the GBVa-ULL research group and collaborates with the IPNA-CSIC on projects exploring chemical modifications in plants to improve their tolerance to abiotic stress, as well as the role of microalgae and bacteria in plant growth. He has also co-directed doctoral theses and serves on the editorial and review committees of scientific journals.