PhD Sergey Shabala

Sergey is a Head of the Stress Physiology Laboratory at the University of Tasmania (Australia) and a Director of the International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology at Foshan University in China. His area of expertise is plant stress physiology and mechanisms of plants adaptation to drought, salinity, waterlogging, oxidative stress, and soil acidity. He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher (H-index = 92; >28,000 citations) who has published over 360 peer-reviewed papers and supervised to completion 42 PhD students. He is a former president of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists and a current Editor in Chief for Functional Plant Biology.