Juande Alché, PhD.

of Reading (UK), the Institut Jacques Monod (Paris) and the Université Livre de Bruxelles. I obtained a doctoral degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Granada in 1991, and after a year of postgraduate at the Estación Experimental del Zaidín, I started a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford (UK) in the frame of a contract Programme "Human Capital and Mobility of Researchers" of the European Commission, and afterwards with a postdoctoral Fellowship of the PFPI/MEC Subprogram for improvement of Doctors and Technologists abroad. At the Department of Plant Sciences, I worked under the supervision of Prof. Hugh Dickinson until my return to the EEZ in 1996, thanks to a  "return" agreement of the "Training and mobility of Researchers" program, also from the European Commission. Between 1997 and 1999 I continued working as a researcher hired in the frame of a research project with Dr. Rodríguez-García until being appointed Tenured Scientist of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) first on an interim basis (1999-2000), which was later consolidated in 2000. I am currently a Research Scientist of the CSIC at the EEZ (2009-) and Head of de Plant Reproductive Biology group from 2012 to the present. I have been the Head of the Confocal and Transmission Electron Microscopy (CTEM) of the EEZ (2010-2014) and Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants (2011-2014). Currently I'm member of the Scientific Committee of the EEZ-CSIC institute, Deputy Director of the EEZ-CSIC (2022-), president of the Spanish Society of Microscopy (SME) (2021-) and member of the University Institute of Research on Olive and Olive Oils (INUO).