Javier Surís i Auguet (Barcelona, 1995) studied Biotechnology at the University of Barcelona where he did a research stay at Prof. Peter Doerner's laboratory at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). He obtained his bachelor's degree in September 2018. That same year, he enrolled on the master's degree in Plant Biology, Genomics and Biotechnology offered by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in collaboration with the CRAG and the Universitat de Barcelona, obtaining the degree in July 2019. Subsequently, in 2020 he joined the Universitat de Girona as a PhD candidate at Laboratori del Suro of the Department of Biology under the supervision of Dra. Mercè Figueras and Dra. Olga Serra. As part of his PhD, in 2023 he did a research stay in the Dra. Laura Ragni's laboratory at the University of Tübingen (Germany). Currently, he is an assistant lecturer in the Microbiology Area of the Department of Biology at the University of Girona.