Néstor Carrillo is a Biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario; he completed his PhD at the Center for Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies (CEFOBI) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Rubén Vallejos. He carried out post-doctoral research studies at the Universities of Osnabrück and Düsseldorf, Germany, and at Harvard University, United States. He is currently a Senior Researcher at CONICET, and head of the Biochemistry of Stress in Plants Group. He is Professor of Molecular Biology at the FCByF. His group studies the response mechanisms that plants put into play in adverse environmental situations (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures, pathogens) as well as the development of strategies to increase tolerance to such situations of environmental stress. He has been distinguished for his work with the IFS Silver Jubilee Award awarded by the International Foundation for Science, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Konex Platinum Award, among others.
