Francisco J. Corpas

Prof. Dr. Francisco J. Corpas is a Full Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and member of the Antioxidant, Free Radical and Nitric Oxide in Biotechnology, Food and Agriculture Group, which is part of the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants at Research Institute named “Estación Experimental del Zaidín”-CSIC, Granada Spain being the Head of the Department between 2014-2018.

He has more than 30 years of research experience in the metabolism of Reactive Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulfur Species (ROS, RNS and RSS, respectively) in higher plants under physiological and environmental stress conditions using either the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana as well as plants of agricultural interest. Special interests are the implications of these reactive species in fruit ripening and the nitro-oxidative metabolism of plant peroxisomes. He already published more than 232 refereed research papers/review articles in peer-reviewed journals (according to Scopus database with h-index:66) and edited thirteen books.