Dr. Raquel Chan is currently a Senior Researcher at CONICET-Argentina, Senior Lecturer at UNL, and Director of the Agrobiotechnology Institute. Her research focuses on plant adaptation to environmental stress, starting from molecules as transcription factors until modified crops in field trials. She completed her degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1981) and her Ph.D. (1988) at CEFOBI (CONICET-UNR). She did a post-doc at the IBMP (Strasbourg-France, 1988-1992) and then joined the Molecular Biology Institute (Rosario-Argentina, 1993) as a CONICET career member. In 1999 she moved to the Coastal National University. She is co-author of 97 international articles published in prestigious journals, nine book chapters, dozens of science divulgation articles, and co-inventor of ten patents involving biotechnological tools for crop improvement. She received recognition and awards, such as Jorge Sabato (2013), Konex Foundation (2013), Rosario city- IBR Foundation (2019), and was selected by the BBC together with IANAS as one of the ten women who lead science in Latin America (2013), nominated by Crop Life International (2019) as Female Food Hero, among others. She became a full member of the Santa Fe Academy of Medical Sciences (2020), the National Academy of Sciences (Argentina, 2021), and the Latin-American Academy of Science (2021).