Rubén Rellán Álvarez, Ph.D., shows how corn cultivation will be affected by climate change and the strategies that breeders, scientists and farmers are using to adapt to this challenge.
Rubén Rellán Álvarez, Ph.D., shows how corn cultivation will be affected by climate change and the strategies that breeders, scientists and farmers are using to adapt to this challenge.
Rellán Álvarez was born in Northwest Spain and grew up in a small village. He completed a bachelor’s in environmental sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and a doctorate in plant biology working in plant nutrition in Zaragoza, Spain. Rellán Álvarez did a postdoc at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University. He started his lab at the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity in Guanajuato where he started to work in the genetics of maize metabolic diversity. Rellán Álvarez has continued this line of research at NC State University where he has been an assistant professor since 2019.