Lam-Son Phan Tran is currently a Professor of the Department of Plant and Soil Science Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST), Texas Tech University. He obtained his M.Sc. in biotechnology in 1994 and Ph.D. in biological sciences in 1997 from Szent Istvan University, Hungary. He completed his postdoctoral research at several research institutions in Japan, including the National Food Research Institute, the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, and at the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences. Between 08/2007 and 12/2008, he worked in the Soybean Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, as a senior research scientist. From 01/2009 to 08/2020, he held a Unit Leader position in RIKEN, Japan. His current research interests are the elucidation of the roles of phytohormones and signalling molecules, and their interactions in environmental stress responses and tolerance, as well as translational genomics of crops with the aim to enhance crop productivity under adverse environmental conditions. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed papers and contributed numerous book chapters to various book editions published by Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. Together with his co-editors, he has edited several book volumes for Springer and Elsevier.